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Different models of long-term residential care for excluded elderly people in Catalonia
Ph D. Pilar Muro & Ph D. Txus Morata
Excluded elderly people in Catalonia
INTRODUCTION• Social Services (from goverment) • People from 65 years old and with a dependent
situation • Social worker: analyze and evaluate level of
dependence and economic resources to afford going to a residence
• Different options:– Long-term residential care– Short-term residential care– Shared- Living Apartments
CHARACTERISTICS OF EXCLUDED ELDERLY PEOPLE
• Social exclusion and poverty (Pujadas y Mendiazábal, 2002):– Different levels of social aspects:1. Integration area: stable job and solid familiar and social relationships2. Vulnerability area: work instability and fragile relationship with family
and others3. Exclusion area: no economic resources, non proteccion from
goverment, no job.
Excluded elderly people in Catalonia
• The Obra Social Santa Lluïsa de Marillac is a social integration program for society’s most vulnerable people in need of aid.
They are run by the ‘Daughters’ Charity, a society of nuns founded by Sant Vicenç of Paül and Saint Luisa de Marillac, in the XVII century in Paris.
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What do they do?
They work with people on different projects:
Servicio de Acogida y Orientación (S.A.O.)
“care and guide service”
Servicio de entrega de alimentos
“Foods delibery service”
Centro de Día“Day center”
Pisos de inclusión social
“Housing social service”
Centro de Estancia Limitada (C.E.L)“Convalescence
center”
Equipo de acompañamiento en
centros penitenciarios“Team for
penitenciary centres”
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Nombre de la presentación
Day CenterDay Center
Day care service, for persons who have initiated an improvement process, guidance from the S.A.O. or referral from BCN's Social Services.
Day care service, for persons who have initiated an improvement process, guidance from the S.A.O. or referral from BCN's Social Services.
What does the day centre offer?What does the day centre offer?
•Follow-up, support and guidance for the person
•Administration of prescription medication
•Workshops and activities
•Social dining room
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Convalescence center C.E.L.
Convalescence center C.E.L.
Residential service aimed at homeless men in need of convalescence
(34 places)
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Who have they attended in 2010?
Service Nº people
S.A.O Reception and orientation service
633
C.E.L Convalecence center 138
Day Centre 101
Psychological evaluation 60
Derivation Centre therapeutic 11
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Service Concept
Food delivery 638 persons
Breakfast / reception space 9.942 breakfast/year
Housing (pension payment) 81 persons
Housing of social inclusion 70 persons
Accompaniment in prison 502 persons
To whom they have attended in 2010?
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Where are they going?
•To consolidate ourselves as a preferred attention and welcome centre for marginalised, vulnerable people
•Encourage the volunteer service
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Who they attend:People who are attended in this project are over 60 or with isolation problems and without family support. Live in the Old city, Barceloneta and Gótico, district I of Barcelona.
-People with housing problems: without house or without living conditions, living on pensions, subtenants, without conditions.
- People with problems of loneliness, social isolation, without family support and affection they need reinforcement, containment and monitoring aspects.
Sant Camil Housing Unit project
Through this project, the organization provides 6 supervised apartments for people with serious housing problems. Run by Caritas.
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Objectives:
- Improve quality life
- Improve living conditions
- Reduce situations of begging and marginalization.
- Provide resources for them to cover their basic needs: food, hygiene, place to sleep, health.
- Accompaniment and support the basic activities of daily living.
- Strengthen relationships from interdependence.
- Create habits of individual and group responsibility.
- To enable coexistence with others.
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COMMUNITARIAN INTERVENTION
CRITICAL-COMMUNITARIAN PERSPECTIVE vs WELFARE CARE
CHARACTERISTICS OF COMMUNITARIAN INTERVENTION:
1st) ACTIVITIES: COMSUMPTION vs. PARTICIPATION
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2nd) METHODOLOGIES:
SOCIO-CULTURAL ANIMATION: participation in cultural events, social participation, be awareness
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3 rd) DIFFERENT MODELS OF PARTICIPATION
1. SYMBOLIC 3. REPRESENTATIVE 4. SOCIAL CHANGE
EMPOWERMENTEMPOWERMENTSOCIAL
INFLUENCESOCIAL
INFLUENCEEXHIBITIONEXHIBITION
2. INSTRUMENTAL
EFFICIENCYEFFICIENCY
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4. SOCIAL CHANGE
EMPOWEMENT:-Involvement
-Horizontal participation-Everyone can participate
SANTA LLUÏSA DE
MARILLACH
1- ACTIVE LEISURE:-PARTICIPATE IN PARTIES-GAMES (CARDS...)-CULTURAL EVENTS
2- PARTICIPATION:-MUSIC GROUP-ASSAMBLEES-NEIGHBORHOOD
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Sant Camil Housing Unit project
1- ACTIVE LEISURE:-PARTICIPATE IN PARTIES-GAMES (CARDS...)-CULTURAL EVENTS- EXCURSIONS
2- PARTICIPATION:-ASSAMBLEES-NEIGHBORHOOD
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CONCLUSIONS:
EMPOWERMENT is basic for social integration
PARTICIPATION for elderly excluded people
LEISURE TIME how to organize and participate
Promote QUALITY LIFE
EMPOWERMENT is basic for social integration
PARTICIPATION for elderly excluded people
LEISURE TIME how to organize and participate
Promote QUALITY LIFE
Excluded elderly people in Catalonia
