The profile of the people treated at the SAD: widowed women aged between 85 and 89
The organization serves a total of 135 people during the month of January
The home care service (SAD) currently serves over a hundred people. Thus, according to the data provided by the Ministry of Social Affairs, 135 people were treated at the end of January. With regard to the majority profiles of these users, we should highlight widowed women between the ages of 85 and 89 who live alone and who have autonomy difficulties or who need support for the basic activities of daily life. If the state of health of these people is taken into account, it should be noted that the most common are frail patients followed by people with dementia. To meet the needs of these users, the service currently has a workforce of 21
people. From the ministry, they emphasize the fact that the mission of the SAD professional is to enhance the autonomy of the people and families served, «with a diagnostic, assistance, educational, rehabilitative and socializing action, to maintain and improve the autonomy and relationship with the environment, carrying out monitoring and care in the health, psychological and social aspects, through individual home care plans (PAID)”. In this way, what is intended is to favor «an alternative model to hospitalization or residential admission, achieving more efficiency of the socio-health system and responding to the needs of citizens».
In this sense, they reiterate that the intention is to strengthen attention to the elderly and to people with dependency, autonomy difficulties or who need support to carry out day-today activities, getting them to remain at home as much as possible time «always with quality and personalized attention».
And beyond the support work they carry out, it is also emphasized that the SAD team of professionals advises users and families on other complementary services that may be available to them. And, precisely, from the area of Socio-sanitary Services of the Ministry of Social Affairs, on which the SAD depends, the homes are adapted with the support products of the bank of technical aids to promote the maximum autonomy of the person, as reported by the ANA.
The people served are mostly widowed women aged between 85 and 89 who live alone and need support