Adolfo Acuña, director of the "Sol de Otoño" nursing home, has reopened the center under the name "Brisas del atardecer". Currently, three elderly people live there. This has been confirmed to La Voz by himself, after sending a statement, signed together with family members, to communicate that the Justice has dismissed the case against this residence, which was denounced in January by the program "Diario de" on Cuatro.
"Since the broadcast of the program and until today, our elders, the caregivers who have lost their jobs, and the director of the residence, have gone through a real ordeal," they say from the center.
Even, in a statement signed by family members and by the director himself, Adolfo Acuña, assures that due to the "changes, transfers and other traumas suffered" by the elderly who left the residence after it closed its doors, "many grandparents have accelerated their processes of physical and mental illnesses, even dying in a percentage that is too high."
In addition, both the family members and the person in charge of the center have demanded a public rectification by the management and presenter of the television program, Mercedes Milá, and by the authors of the recordings and statements made. "Otherwise, we will be forced to exercise the legal actions that may correspond to us."
The controversy in the "Sol de Otoño" residence broke out in January 2012. The program "Diario de" on the Cuatro channel broadcast a report in which it denounced the treatment received by the elderly. It was a student in practice who recorded the images and decided to send them to the program.
After this report was broadcast, it was discovered that the center did not have authorization to start operating, its director had not presented either the action protocols or the projects by which the residence should be governed, and only had a degree as a geriatric assistant obtained in Argentina, which had not been approved in Spain, according to what was reported at the time by the Civil Guard.
But there was even a final judgment ordering the closure of the residence in November 2011, but this was not executed until all the elderly had been relocated. Thus, despite the fact that the Tías City Council had also decreed the sealing of the center when the controversy broke out, it continued to operate until the end of January.