Benidorm Extends Support To Elderly Residents At Risk Of Isolation

Benidorm City Hall has supported complete 250 aged residents done nan Proyecto Brújula (Compass Project), a community-based inaugural launched by nan Department of Social Welfare to place and assistance older group facing vulnerability aliases societal removal — often owed to unwanted loneliness.

The project, which began successful 2018, focuses connected detecting aged individuals experiencing societal isolation and offering them applicable thief earlier their business deteriorates. The purpose is to forestall nan intelligence and beingness effects that prolonged loneliness tin person connected wellbeing and value of life.

Key to nan occurrence of nan programme is simply a increasing web of volunteers and collaborators, including wellness centres, pharmacies, section banks, charities specified arsenic Cruz Roja and Caritas, and neighbourhood shops. When a imaginable lawsuit is flagged, nan accusation is passed to nan Social Welfare Department, whose unit sojourn nan person’s location to measure nan business and pass them of available services.

According to nan latest municipal figures, Benidorm presently has 8,629 residents aged 75 and complete — pinch an estimated 4,500 of them surviving alone. This represents a crisp emergence from 2018, erstwhile nan full number of residents successful that property bracket was 4,967.

In response, nan metropolis hallway is looking to grow its web of volunteers and raise further consciousness of Proyecto Brújula. Work is besides underway to create nan first charismatic representation of participating establishments, which will beryllium marked pinch a typical awesome to make them easy recognisable to nan public.

Local associations, businesses and shop owners are invited to subordinate nan inaugural by emailing: proyectobrujula@benidorm.org.