To mark the entry into force, on January 1, of the Law on the Promotion of Personal Autonomy and Care for People in Situations of Dependency, the Tías City Council offered an informative course this Thursday for the residents of the municipality. The objective was to explain to the residents of Tías that with the new law a series of reforms are beginning in the area of health aimed at helping dependent people and their families, providing health and even economic care, in some cases, to the people who request it. The mayor, José Juan Cruz, was joined by Ángel García Martín, a doctor from the Madrid Institute of Public Health who is in charge of the Training and Advice Area for socio-health services.
In the words of García Martín, the new law represents "a qualitative change in healthcare" since it implies "the integration of all health services." Furthermore, the restructuring of these services will allow users to access certain aid more easily and achieve the quality of life of those people who need it. He also emphasized that the recipients do not only correspond to people with disabilities, but that it includes all people with difficulties in autonomy, such as the elderly, who due to certain diseases have limited mobility.
The law determines three degrees of disability: moderate, mild and severe which will be the parameters to evaluate patients and refer them, according to an assignment of scales. And it is expected that the application will begin to be effective in the middle of the year, with a deadline of ten years.
The mayor also showed his interest in "putting a team of technicians available to citizens to advise them" in order to "make an inventory of all those people in a situation of dependency within the municipal area of Tías" so that with the new services none of the people in need are excluded due to lack of information, "because what would be a shame is that after this law is launched, the resources arrive and are not used due to lack of information."
