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More than half of the residents receive at least once a week a visit from their relatives.
61% are over 80 and 30% are over 90. And in the coming years, both the number of people in need of care and the average age of the residents will increase.
The study was developed by the Chair LARES-UCAM on a sample of 752 residents.
More than 70% of elderly people in nursing homes have a functional dependency between very severe and moderate, with a need to be neat, dressing and helping to eat, according to the report on the care profile of elderly people assisted in residences, presented This morning by the chair LARES-UCAM of Socio-Health Care for Dependent Elderly People.
"We must take into account that 61% of people are over 80, with 30% of the elderly over 90. To this must be added that more than 60% of the elderly living in homes have some Type of cognitive impairment, "explained Carmelo Gómez, director of the Chair Lares-UCAM, who explained that" this report has been prepared with data from 752 more than 9 residential centers in the Region of Murcia, the 14 attached to Lares ".
The presentation ceremony, which took place at the Los Jerónimos Campus, also involved José Luis Mendoza, president of the UCAM;
Miguel Ángel Miralles, Managing Director of IMAS;
Sor Belén Pachón, president of the Lares Federation, residences and services of the solidarity sector Murcia.
This same report reveals that they are "57% have depression, but not because they are living in the residences" and that "more than half receive at least once a week visit of their relatives, although many only receive telephone calls ".
Among the causes of income, more than half is due to problems of capacity to care for dependents, followed closely by the lack of financial means for families to adapt their homes.
"Society has to begin to see us as centers that provide a series of services with particular characteristics because we are Lares, that is to say, a non-profit-making solidary sector, highly specialized and with a large percentage of training and research," concluded Carmelo Gómez .
The president of the UCAM, José Luis Mendoza, has congratulated himself on this study and congratulated himself on the implementation of this chair, a year ago, while insisting on expanding its actions, in the field of Research and training.
On the other hand, Miguel Angel Miralles, after noting that "this is one of the few studies on the conditions and the profile of the elderly people who go to the residences in Spain", commented that "there are more and more people with dependence, We now have more services to care for the elderly in their homes, which is where we like them to be, but there are situations of family pressure, loneliness or abandonment, which make it necessary to These people. "
He recalled that Murcia has more than 4,000 places between homes and day centers arranged.
The Murcia Association of Residences and Services for the Elderly-Solidary Sector and the UCAM created a year ago the Chair of Socio-Sanitary Care for Dependent Elderly People, through which students of the University also carry out teaching and research practices.
Sister Belén Pachón mentioned that "we intend with this chair that, since we care for the elderly, make it true professionals with training, humanization of health and with conscience, because the elderly deserve all our respect, affection and professionalism, to That they feel safe with us. "
Source: UCAM
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