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The local, of 156 m2, will have a dining room, multipurpose room, geriatric bathroom, adapted bathroom, and treatment room, among other rooms

On the afternoon of yesterday a presentation was made in society of the project of the Day Center for older people that the City Council intends to promote in the coming months.

According to the graphic document made by the engineering company that has promoted this project after the previous work of the City Council's technical services, the Day Center will be on the ground floor of the multiple use building of the town, in the dependency that was destined to pensioner's bar.

Facilities in which users will have a multipurpose room, adapted toilet, geriatric bathroom, treatment room, dining room, storage room, office and other common areas;

distributed in more than 150 m2, which were visualized in a video and in different graphic and plant references by the technician before a good reception from the attending neighbors.

In this sense, the mayor of Pliego, Pedro Noguera stressed "the functionality and the importance of using some municipal facilities that are not being used and it is the real priority for Pliego as one of the main concerns of citizens and this team of Government aims to improve the situation of the elderly in our town because it is a matter of general interest. "

The future start-up of this day center is even more justified after knowing the results of a study commissioned by the City Council to know the needs of this group, as well as the demands they present and the resources available to them.

This study concluded that more than half of the population that needs support or help to carry out activities in their daily life resort to the family, especially children or spouses, and especially the female gender.

In addition, this work showed the need for the implementation of a Day Center for seniors, so it included as one of the proposals that residents would vote within the participatory Budgets launched by the Consistory.

Finally, 72% of the participants decided to allocate a first game of € 15,000 from the municipal games to this project.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Pliego