Calvià 31st October 2018
CALVIÀ BECOMES PART OF THE IMAS COMPREHENSIVE HOME CARE SERVICE
This programme that focuses on the comprehensive person care model aims to offer personal and specialised attention to people with a degree of dependency without moving them out of their environment
Calvià has a new person care programme with the implementation of the Comprehensive Home Care Service (SAID) of the Institut Mallorquí d'Afers Socials (IMAS), for which a team of 6 clinic assistants has been hired that will be directed by a social worker, and who will work in a coordinated manner with the Social Intervention Service and the Social Services of Calvià Town Hall.
The mayor of Calvià, Alfonso Rodríguez Badal, stressed the importance of the implementation of this service in the municipality, which will complement a work that is being done in this direction, such as the 'home food delivery service for the elderly' initiative presented this week. Rodríguez Badal added that "Calvià can be satisfied" because the SAID considers, also, in terms of rights "because attending to dependency has been understood that it must be a right for the people and for the families that take care of people with a degree of dependence ».
The IMAS vice-president, Javier de Juan Martín, explained to associations and entities of the municipality the operation of the SAID that focuses on the integral attention to the person model and consists of the implementation of this modality, but going beyond the social part. With the start-up of this service, a home care plan is established (support for home general cleaning, shopping, menus elaboration, etc.); a personal care plan (hygiene, medication control, diet support and control, support for the mobilisation of the person within the home, etc.); a specialised care plan that incorporates the figures of the occupational therapist, physiotherapist and dietitian, and a psychosocial support plan of psychological attention to the person and the family.
All this is completed with a series of complementary services such as technical aids or a podiatry service.
The objective of the SAID focuses on advancing in the coordination of the different (community, specialised and health) care levels; detect possible cases of risk and prevent the unnecessary institutionalisation of those people who, with an adequate alternative, could continue living in their environment, and improve the welfare of families and carers by offering information, training and specific support programmes.
The Calvià Town Hall, through the Home Care Service, assisted 97 people in 2017 and 83 people until July 2018, not all of them with a recognised degree of dependence.