After the Governing Council of the Cabildo of Lanzarote approved - last November 18 - the temporary concession for one year of the management and use of the new social health center of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, which will be located in the so-called Finca Las Cabreras, in Teguise, to be used as a Family Respite Residence for Alzheimer's patients, to the AFA Association, this Monday, December 1, the Plenary of the Corporation has taken note of said concession, without any opposition from its members.
The President of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, Pedro San Ginés, congratulated the president of this non-profit entity, Manuel Ruiz, present at the plenary session, for the concession of this center that aims to respond again to many families on the island with the upcoming opening of its facilities.
This entity was already declared in 2013 by the Plenary of the Cabildo as an Entity of Insular Public Interest for the work it carries out in the field of Alzheimer's, dementia and cognitive mental illnesses, among others.
The Councilor for Social Welfare of the Corporation, Marciano Acuña Betancort, reiterated, like the President of the Cabildo, his "recognition of the work of AFA on the island" and was pleased that "this entity, consolidated by the daily work it carries out in favor of these patients and their families, is finally the one that manages the new facilities that we will soon be able to open".
The Residence
It should be remembered that the Las Cabreras estate, in Teguise, is fundamentally composed of three houses, which are the central axis and the engine of the "Las Cabreras" center. Each of them is dedicated to users with different levels of dependency, both due to cognitive impairment (dementia and Alzheimer's) and physical impairment.
The current capacity for care, given the surface area available, is 15 people or users per house, which makes a total of 45 people cared for per day, these places being insufficient for the current demand of users. This forces them to transfer them to their homes every day, without the possibility of overnight stays, neither for them nor for respite on weekends for their families.
Attending to this demanded need, the Government of the Canary Islands and the Cabildo of Lanzarote initiated the construction of this new Family Respite social health center, which will complete the daytime care with residential care.
The planned places are 24 in a family respite regime, divided into 12 single and 6 double rooms. This new center will also have therapy rooms, kitchen, laundry, dining room and offices for technicians.
The objective of this resource is to maintain or improve the autonomy of the users, to attend to their basic health needs and to facilitate integration and social participation in the environment, as established in the social health program for attention to Disability in the Canary Islands. In addition to all the services included in the Service Portfolio, which includes Family Respite, as a resource that aims to temporarily replace the informal caregiver.
