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| The actions have focused on the ground floor of the center and have led to the creation of a larger and more open hall, which can be divided into three independent rooms using mobile panels | The Mayor of Murcia, José Ballesta, along with the Councilor for the Elderly, Disability and Development Cooperation, Paqui Pérez, and the mayor of Pedanías y Barrios, Marco Antonio Fernández, supervised this morning the end of work at the Centro de Mayores de Cabezo de Torres, located on Calle del Carmen - next to the district Health Center -, whose ground floor has been completely renovated and in which the main room has been expanded.
This space can now be divided into three independent rooms using mobile panels, which represents an improvement in the functionality of its services."Quality facilities, with larger spaces and adapted to the needs of our elders, who are the true promoters of this project that benefits the more than 800 users of the Senior Center in Cabezo de Torres, which has an area of ??422 square meters ”, highlighted José Ballesta, who added that“ this action is framed within the Extraordinary Investment Plan in Pedanías, endowed with 14 million euros ”.Specifically, the City Council has allocated an injection of 225,469 to the works undertaken at the Cabezo de Torres Senior Center, which began approximately a month ago, “an own space for meeting and socialization that is part of the network of 76 social centers of elders of the municipality ”, indicated the alderman from Murcia.For her part, Councilor Paqui Pérez expressed her satisfaction because "these expansion works will respond to the needs of the hundreds of older people who are part of and give life to the Cabezo de Torres social center, where a number of activities are carried out important, cultural, educational and leisure activities that allow its members to socialize, share and enjoy in company and acquire skills ”.Likewise, the head of the Elderly said that these facilities are part of the municipal network of the 76 centers for the elderly in the municipality of Murcia, "a rich heritage of which we can feel very proud."A more spacious and diaphanous room to carry out different activities, petanque courts and spaces to restAmong the actions carried out on the ground floor of the center, built in the 1980s, the expansion of its general hall stands out, as well as the dependencies linked to it –bar, kitchen and pantry–.
The works have meant the creation of a larger and more open space, being able to divide said room into three independent rooms using mobile panels to carry out activities simultaneously.The existing toilets on this floor have also been renovated, improving their accessibility and adapting them to people with disabilities.
The center also has an outdoor rest area for its users and a landscaped one with four petanque courts.Likewise, obsolete carpentry elements and plumbing, sanitation, electricity and air conditioning installations have been replaced by new ones.Reading, theater, gymnastics, painting and musicThe cultural activities that can be carried out in this center - when its reopening takes place, depending on the evolution of the pandemic - are gymnastics, reading, theater, literacy, painting and music, with a choir made up of users who rehearse in the facilities, as well as computers.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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