This name service is free and is obtainable by volunteers from the FAMYC Foundation. Users are aged individuals who stay alone and are in a weak scenario. Through this contact they ensure that they’re okay or that they’ve taken their medicine
Robustiano is 93 years previous and lives alone within the Caranza neighborhood, in Ferrol (A Coruña). Eleven years in the past he suffered a stroke that partially affected his mobility and, as well as, he has a slight cognitive impairment. He has no household, however on daily basis there’s a individual very conscious of him.
Her identify is Fina and she or he is a volunteer. She provides him ten minutes of her time on daily basis by calling him on the telephone, at all times, on the similar time. In that chat, she asks him how her day has been, if she has gone down for a stroll or if she has taken her medicine. Her objective is to ensure Robustiano is okay.
He is just not the one previous man from Ferrol and his area who receives this “repairing” day by day name. Also for María, 76, and her husband Serafín, 82, the telephone rings on daily basis at 4 within the afternoon. On the opposite aspect of the gadget, in her case, is Marichu, additionally a volunteer.
This couple residing within the Ferrol parish of Cobas has no youngsters. Neither are relations who can go to them day by day. With this name, Marichu makes positive that nothing has occurred to them and, by the way, alleviates the sensation of loneliness they endure.
María and Serafín with Marta de Araoz, the individual in control of FAMYC (left); and Marichu, the volunteer who calls them (proper). CANCELED
These older individuals are customers of ‘Hoxe Falamos’, a program that the FAMYC Foundation (Fundación de Ayuda a Mayores y Cuidadores de Ferrol) has launched in collaboration with the Ferrol City Council to make sure the well-being of older individuals who stay alone and who’re in a scenario of vulnerability.
A free name to keep away from lonely deaths
The FAMYC Foundation was born in 2019 in Ferrol, after a number of instances of aged individuals whose our bodies had been discovered of their houses days or even weeks after dying alone had hit the information.
“Seeing that moved me inside and I assumed that, as youngsters that we’re, our ethical obligation was to do one thing,” Marta de Araoz, head of this basis, advised NIUS.
The scenario of loneliness suffered by many older individuals was not one thing alien to her. After greater than a decade managing an organization that provides help to dependent aged individuals, Marta had identified dramatic tales of people that stay solely with the corporate of radio and tv.
“There are many aged individuals on this planet who’re alone, who shouldn’t have youngsters or a household that cares about them,” says Marta. “Some do not even have anybody to speak to,” she provides.
To battle towards this undesirable loneliness, he got here up with the thought of launching ‘Hoxe Falamos’, a program that can be provided to customers freed from cost. “We give them dialog, we mitigate their loneliness and we ensure that they haven’t suffered any mishap”, he explains.
Josefina, one other person of the free calls service, with Marta de Araoz. CEDITED
In the occasion that after a number of calls they don’t decide up the telephone, they activate a warning protocol. They alert both relations who’ve a reference, or the emergency companies.
“There are aged individuals who have died of dehydration after struggling, for instance, a fall within the toilet,” he explains. Those are conditions they goal to keep away from.
A vital service within the oldest metropolis in Spain
It is just not by likelihood that FAMYC was born in Ferrol. This metropolis is, in line with knowledge from the National Institute of Statistics (INE) for the 12 months 2021, the oldest in Spain.
“Social companies do all the pieces they will. But, in a metropolis like this, they can not sustain,” says Marta.
According to the INE, 29% of the inhabitants residing on this Galician metropolis is over 65 years of age. There are about 18,700 individuals. Furthermore, 25% of them (about 5,000) stay alone.
For now, a dozen seniors have benefited from this service. FAMYC has the capability to serve extra. However, it’s not being straightforward for them to succeed in them.
“There are many older individuals who complain about undesirable loneliness, however it is rather troublesome for them to ask for assist,” says Marta.
From this basis they enchantment to the residents of Ferrol to inform them in the event that they detect instances prone to profit from this free name service.
“If you understand individuals who stay alone, who really feel weak and have undesirable loneliness, tell us, we can be glad to name them,” says Marta. The info phone quantity is 679 843 665.
They do not forget that it’s a useful resource that they provide to the general public fully freed from cost and that the scope of motion is just not restricted solely to town of Ferrol, however to all of the municipalities that make up the area of Ferrolterra.