In Spain there are 5,573 residences and a total of 393,581 places, according to a study Network Aging. This is equivalent to 4.2 places per 100 older people, and that the level of occupation is around the 86%. It is estimated that there will be between 75,000 and 190,000 residential places that we will need to meet the demand between now and 2030, so it is clear that it will never hurt to create more residences, as well as more day centers, more care centers intermediate and palliative or more cohousing.
Amancio Ortega and his daughter Sandra, the richest in Spain, according to Forbes
Amancio Ortegafounder of the Inditex Group and one of the richest people in the world with a fortune estimated at 73.1 billion euros, wants to contribute to senior well-being through his Amancio Ortega Foundation, a non-profit institution created in 2001 to promote different activities, especially in the field of social assistance and education. With its financing, a series of new and modern public residences in Galicia.
Under the agreement with the Xunta for 90 million euros for this project, they will be seven centers to open in seven Galician cities, which will increase by 900 seats socio-health care in the community: 150 in Vigo, 150 in La Coruña, 120 in Orense, 120 in Lugo, 120 in Santiago de Compostela, 120 in Pontevedra and 120 in Ferrol.
Are already in construction the centers of Lugo, Pontevedra, La Coruña and Santiago de Compostela, while the works in Vigo, Orense and Ferrol will begin soon. These buildings, designed by the Galician studio Elsa Urquijo Arquitectos, “will have a cutting-edge equipment and with innovative servicesas psychogeriatric units specialized in alzhéimer and other neurodegenerative dementias”, according to the Consellería de Política Social de la Xunta de Galicia.
Recreation of the residences of Amancio OrtegaFundación Amancio Ortega
“This new care model is already being developed in Galicia with specific measures such as: the implementation of a quality certification and the development of a continuous training plan for professionals; the approval of the first Galician regulations for collaborative housing or cohousing or the implementation of the latest version of the Electronic Medical Record – the same one they have in hospitals and primary care services–”, they state from the Xunta.
