The Regional Network against unwanted loneliness that will be launched by the Community of Madrid will be configured as a work space in which the Community will act collaboratively with the rest of the actors to improve the health, quality and life expectancy of people seniors who live without company.
To this end, within the framework of this initiative, a series of Workdays in the coming months that will serve to develop an action plan with which “You live where you live and you live how you live, no person from Madrid feels alone”as stated Maria Concepcion DancausaMinister of Social Policies, Family, Equality and Birth Rate, during the presentation of this Network.
Mª Concepción Dancausa, Minister of Social Policies, Family, Equality and Birth Rate, has presented the Regional Network for care for the elderly in situations of unwanted loneliness
In this regard, the counselor recalled that her department, in collaboration with the Official College of Psychology of Madrid, is carrying out research to develop a quantitative and qualitative map of the in the Community of Madrid, which will also serve as a guide for the work of this Regional Network.
“There is a broad social consensus on the need for public institutions deal with lonelinessbut it is one of those new subjects for the administration and, to this day, there is no national or European strategy to combat loneliness”Dancausa underlined, pointing out that the regional government is going to count on the participation of other administrations, associations and entities of the Third Sector to define and develop the actions that this service network will undertake.
According to the latest data from the National Institute of Statistics, 18% of the population of the (1.2 million people) are over 65 years of age. And, of all the people who have reached this age, 25% live alone at homea proportion that in 2030 will reach 30%.