The agreement was signed this morning in the Sala Maggiore of the Asp ITIS by the president Aldo Pahor, Stefano Chicco, structure manager of the Social Service of the Municipality of Trieste and by the local voluntary associations.
TRIESTE – Prevent frailty, guarantee the monitoring of elderly people, implement all the useful strategies to promote active aging and consolidate the actions of the Social Concierge with the city area. These are some of the objectives underlying the Community Pact signed this morning in the main hall of the Asp ITIS in Trieste.
The agreement is part of the "CrossCare 2.0" project, included in the Interreg VI-A Italy-Slovenia 2021-2027 Programme and led by the lead partner Cooperativa sociale Itaca, which involves various entities in Friuli Venezia Giulia, Veneto and Slovenia, including the partner Asp ITIS. For CrossCare 2.0, co-financed with over 529 thousand euros from the European Regional Development Fund, the Trieste ASP obtained a loan of 90 thousand euros, useful for developing a project to take care of elderly residents in the city, in synergy with public and private bodies.
What the agreement provides.
ITIS has been active for several months in taking care of frail elderly residents in Trieste and particularly in the Barriera Vecchia district, through the Social Concierge which responds daily to the needs of the elderly themselves and their families. In the last 12 months the Concierge has registered almost 600 contacts, has trained and coordinated a team of volunteers with various professionalisms and aptitudes, has mapped the area through neighborhood walks, connecting the various resources and, finally, has organized gymnastic activities, socialization meetings and personalized plans for various needs.
The objective of the collaboration now expands to civil society thanks to the Community Pact and will concern the development of support actions for integrated home services, the implementation of continuous assistance programs and the standardization of actions relating to social transport in the area; but also the development of recreational, cultural and social activities that encourage the active participation of the elderly, preventing isolation and promoting psychophysical well-being. Without forgetting the organization of transversal training programs for volunteers and the promotion of research projects to study new technological and methodological solutions that improve the quality of life of the elderly.
«The project - explains the president of the Asp ITIS, Aldo Pahor - concretely responds to the needs expressed by the frail elderly and their families, increasingly trapped in the snares and snares of bureaucracy and in the babel of opportunities, or non-opportunities, expressed by the territory. The Asp ITIS has been working for some time to also structure itself as a Service Center to provide timely responses and accompany fragile people and their families in identifying the best opportunities and solutions for managing fragility".
