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The deadline for submitting applications for service in 2010 will be open until May 15
The Family Respite Service Addresses, under the Department of Social Welfare and Promotion of Equality, which was launched first in the town of Murcia in 2002, has served a total of 563 families with dependents until September 2009.
Of 1,429 hours has passed 15,695 in 2008.
At its inception, the service was used exclusively for the elderly, but in 2004 it was extended to the disabled, as a pilot, and now both programs are unified in a single draft attention to situations of functional dependence.
The attention and care of a dependent person is a prolonged experience required, in many cases, reorganization of family life, work and social integration of people who are responsible to care.
The care provided by their immediate families is preferred by the elderly and such care includes activities as diverse as usual coping behaviors, communication with people who may have difficulty expressing, managing stress, grooming everyday life, walking aids and much more.
In most families is a single person who takes most of the responsibility of care.
Most of these caregivers are women: wives, daughters and wives.
So much so that eight out of ten people who are caring for an elderly relative in our country are women between 45 and 65 years of age.
Despite the predominance of women in the field of caring, men are increasingly involved in the care of dependent persons either as caregivers or as assistants to the primary caregivers, which means a gradual change of the situation.
The service is regulated by annual notice published in the Official Gazette of the Region of Murcia, since 2006, and is primarily aimed at families who are in some of the following situations:
Have other family responsibilities (children, disabled, sick, etc.).
There is a single caregiver with no possibility of relief.
That the dependent person suffering from cognitive impairment (Alzheimer and other dementias).
Caregivers are working outside and inside the house continuously.
That caregivers have health problems and loneliness or problems associated with old age.
Also, applicants must meet certain requirements, including:
The person in care, if you are over 60 years in a state of need of others for activities of daily life, attested by standard medical report.
The person in care, if less than 60 years, provide a physical, mental or psychological requiring third-party support for activities of daily living, and be recognized by the competent body, disability or equal degree than 75%, and have reviewed at least a score of 15 in the section need third-party contest.
In the case of minors, not necessary the assessment of third-party contest.
The person in care should have recognized, by the competent body, the rating dependent on the degree III.
That either the caregiver or the person to attend are domiciled in the municipality of Murcia.
In any case, the service will not be provided in homes outside the city of Murcia
Provide the required documentation.
Accept the terms of service covered by this call.
Accept the financial contribution that corresponds, if
The service offered covers personal care and support required by the dependent person in the absence of his family (toilet, accompanying field trips or cultural activities and entertainment, to food and medicines, etc..).
The service will be provided with a maximum 16 hours per month with a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 8 consecutive hours in a day.
These hours may be distributed from Monday to Sunday from 8 to 22 hours.
The number of hours and days to pay will be set according to the needs and preferences of each user and service availability.
Provide users, by the perception of service, are appropriate fee based on their income.
The quantities will contribute between $ 1.20 per hour minimum and 6.00 euros per hour maximum.
Financial contribution shall be exempt from living units, as per capita income does not exceed the limits in the table prepared for this purpose.
The budget available to carry out this service for the year 2009 of EUR 266,722.28 of which the Autonomous Community of Murcia and the Ministry of Education and Science provide EUR 150,375.23 and the City Murcia 116.347.05 euros.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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