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Eight-eight college seniors have benefited from this course of Coexistence Between Generations program which today celebrates its closure, with a ceremony at six pm at the annex building.
All seniors and students involved are women, but one of the students are male.
Three seniors have participated for the first time in the program, the rest have been repeated experience.
As almost all students have participated for the first time in the program except two.
The cohabitation between generations program has been operating since the 1995-1996 school year, the result of the collaboration agreement between the City and the University of Murcia.
Thanks to an agreement with the Autonomous Region in 2000 was increased aid to over 60 euros per month of stay of the student, in compensation for the cost of electricity and water that the student will rise, leaving students free expenses.
The service is free to seniors stay at home to a college student and this, in turn, offers companionship and collaboration on tasks such as backing on the go food shopping, administrative and other benefits that both agree.
The objectives pursued under this program are to promote intergenerational solidarity and respect through living together, provide company to the elderly who live alone and get the student with housing accommodation may be available during the school year.
The service contributes to expanding the supply of services that facilitate the retention of older people at home and can be complementary to others, such as the home help service and Telecare.
Seniors in turn, are generating a new resource for young students because of their studies have to leave their homes and are forced to find accommodation, found in the availability of your company to offer the elderly who are are alone and want to live with them.
The City and the University, with its mediating role offers sufficient guarantee that the property is produced in the right conditions for both parties, without imposing a burden for the greater economic, as economic aid to the City Council granted cover utilities (electricity, water and gas) that the student they may entail.
Features to be met by the elderly:
- Be over 65 and pensioners aged 60 and living alone or situations of loneliness.
- No diseases that interfere with normal living
- Have house in good sanitary conditions with separate bedroom.
Features that should meet the students university:
- Resident in Murcia, but non-resident
- Be enrolled in the University of Murcia.
- No diseases that impede the normal coexistence
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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