The City of La Union through the Department of Social Policy that directs Rosa Pagan, has begun the installation of safety devices in homes of telecare service users.
These detectors react to smoke emissions and gas that can be dangerous to the health of older people by issuing an alarm is detected in the central Televida Tunstall in Murcia, which is the company responsible for the provision of this service.
Once known the alarm, telecare service enable preventive and emergency measures required in each case.
The Session service provides telecare to 44 people over 65 years of the municipality, who receive call health and social emergency 24 hours a day every day of the year.
They also have home visits from social workers.
The profile of the user in this population corresponds to a 80-year old woman, a widow who lives alone and has an average range.
Since last January, the telecare service received 309 calls from users of this county who, in turn, have received more than 700 follow-up calls by telemarketers.
Since last June 1 is active security protocol to extreme temperatures, so that the elderly who live alone or have a condition likely to worsen with longer follow-up are ongoing heat and recommendations from the central telecare and in personal visits are made by different practitioners.
Source: Ayuntamiento de La Unión