Palazzo Ghilini, seat of the Prefecture
Society
The meeting
Paola Ferrari’s warning: “Sometimes it’s not easy to intercept illnesses”
ALESSANDRIA – Discussion between the Ombudsman for the Elderly of the Municipality of Alessandria Paola Ferrari and the prefect Alessandra Vinciguerra. Subject: the role of local authorities and institutions in monitor and manage fragilities of the elderly population.
It turns out that sometimes fragile people they don’t want to get help, for many reasons, but the task of the institutions remains to make proposals towards them. Also through social services which, together with the community, offer useful references to lonely people.
The Guarantor: “There is a huge problem”
“On the part of the prefect, a person of exquisite humanity, I found sharing of positions and full availability – underlines Ferrari -. Beyond specific projects, sometimes It’s not easy to intercept ailments: elderly people often try to mask their condition of need on their own. There’s a huge submerged which we need to intervene on. Elderly people left alone who unfortunately do not dare ask for help, but it is important that cases of people in difficulty are reported.”
“It will be important – he adds – to all find a way together identify elderly people who live alone and consider their conditions as tactfully as possible. A first step could be to activate the solidarity of proximity. Considering that in condominiums our neighbor is first of all the neighbor next door and knowing how he is doing or if he needs something must not be perceived as invasions of the sphere of confidentiality. But courtesies useful to prevent the negativity of loneliness.”
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