At 84 years of age, María Dolores Ruiz has an enviable memory and has just read ‘Reina Roja’, “a good novel.” She was born in the San Pablo neighborhood “next to the church” and continues to live alone in her apartment because she wants to. “I am lucky to have a good head and I can live independently. As long as I manage and can I want to continue like this,” says this already great-grandmother. He has two children, in addition to three grandchildren, who “They are aware of me and anything I may need”, and a great-grandson “who is my madness now.”
She explains that she can continue at home, even if she has had to move to a floor closer to her daughter’s and with an elevator, thanks to the services she enjoys. She has been a user for 12 years of the distribution of food prepared at home by Fundación La Caridad in collaboration with the Zaragoza City Council and also has the home help service and the remote assistance service. “The telecare call me every week to see how I am. Fortunately, I only had to use it twice when I fell at home “, account.
In the toughest months of the pandemic, Fundación La Caridad came to provide menus at home to more than a thousand elderly and vulnerable people in the city. At the moment, around 1,250 are being served, according to the latest data provided from the institution.
“During the home confinement, we had 12 delivery routes, as people who came to eat at senior centers joined. Now they have stayed at nine, “explains María Hernández, a social worker at Fundación La Caridad.
These past Christmas days Dolores was able to eat with her daughter, her granddaughter and her great-grandson, “always the same and with great care.” Since March he has hardly been out on the streets, “On the day of El Pilar I went to see the Virgin in a taxi”, and before the holidays she went to the hairdresser. He misses being able to be “with total freedom” with their loved ones, go for a walk “a little” and spend the afternoon with their friends on a terrace or in a bar. It is clear that you are going to be vaccinated. “14 years ago I had surgery for breast cancer and now they have recommended that I get vaccinated. I trust the doctors“, he assures. In 2021 he asks” health to see how my great-grandson grows. “
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