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The City will maintain ownership of the consignments to major in next year's budget despite the current economic crisis.

This has sent the Mayor, Miguel Ángel Cámara, members of the social centers this morning attended the ceremony in the Plenary Hall to mark the International Day of Older Persons.

The economic difficulties facing the country, compounded by cuts in government transfers to the City Council, will be faced primarily by reductions in current spending, without affecting social spending.

In this regard, the Chamber has announced the commitment of the government team to promote greater social centers as a means to facilitate, through its programs and activities, social relations and improving the quality of life of older persons.

At the same time, the City Council will continue to be demanding that the National Government compliance with the funding and the deadlines specified in the Dependency Act.

Currently there are 76 associations and social centers established in the municipality over: 12 of them in neighborhoods and 64 villages.

This extensive network, with over 30,000 members, is a reference for the elderly, who have throughout this year with 169 training, 200 training workshops and seminars and services such as physiotherapy and podiatry, running with 40 queries.

Encourage exercise, promote communication between people, promote creativity, expressiveness and imagination, and develop the artistic skills of the elderly are some of the objectives it seeks to achieve the Department of Social Welfare and Promoting Equality through These courses and activities.

Murcia City Council provides, through the Department of Social Welfare, a grant of 36,000 euros to the Federation of Senior Citizens Centres for program development activities in 2008.

This extensive network is supplemented by three Day Care Centres, which relieves families when addressing older that require special attention and efforts on the empowerment of home help services, are more than 1,500 people served-and Telecare, with more than 2,800 beneficiaries.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia