Details of a new day centre for the care of patients with Alzheimer’s and other dementias are currently being finalised. A new plot has now been confirmed, close to the Quirón hospital (old San Jaime). This was confirmed by the councillor, Trudy Páez, in the last plenary session.
According to the figures managed by the Oenegés Department, the new building will be much larger that the current centre, and will enable up to twice as many people to be helped.
Currently, she says, the AFA facilities, built in 2007 on the old Renfe garage site, in Acequión, only has three rooms and a common dining room, just enough to serve about 50 users, but in the new centre, that number could rise to between 80 and 100 people.
The demand for AFA services, the association said, is unfortunately increasing as a consequence of the progressive aging of the population. Councillor Páez explained that the new units will be able to offer more individualised and specialised care. “Users will be treated differently depending on the phase of the disease they are in, since they are currently all together,” she says.
The new centre will have physiotherapy rooms, a gym for individual and group therapies. It will also have its own assigned medical and nursing staff. It will also benefit by also being located next door to a major hospital.
