A son will deliver more than 80,000 signatures collected on the Citizen Platform Change.org on Thursday to modify the current criteria for allocating places in residences so that they do not separate their parents with Alzheimer’s after 60 years married and living together.
“My parents are 84 and 80 years old and take hand as if they were 14. The older, more caranthi.” Thus begins the text of the petition that began last October José Hernández, the son of Desiderio and María Soledad.
This Thursday, José will move from Plasencia to Mérida to deliver the 80,000 signatures at the Junta de Extremadura and request a meeting. “I’ve been contacting me for months, they get dizzy with one thing and another but the reality is that Extremadura regulations remain the same and that my parents are still at home, without residence and with the risk of being separated,” he said.
According to this son, his parents are going to make 60 years married and still “excites seeing that connection.” Therefore, he says that he “part of the soul” when he thinks that “they have to separate right now, in the last years of their lives.”
Both suffer from Alzheimer and need 24 -hour attention, and with the help of their child it is not enough. «My mother in a matter of months has gone from cooking and using itself to spend most of the motionless day, unable to seem alone, with a lost look. It’s very hard to see them like that, ”explains José.
Therefore, he has requested for both a public residence in Extremadura but has seen that in the criteria for assigning places it is not taken into account that they are a marriage. «They value each one separately even having the same disease and, therefore, they could assign each one a different residence. Separating them in their last years and after having spent a lifetime together, ”he laments.
To prevent it “before it is too late,” he launched a collection of signatures through which he requests to modify the current regulations “to avoid that marriages that lead together have to separate like this.” Ask that when assigning residences take into account the coexistence of years when it comes to Baremar.
José explains that, according to what he has investigated, there are other autonomous communities such as Aragon or the Valencian Community that do prioritize in their regulations the reunification of marriages in residences of the elderly.
Sources from the Ministry of Social Rights, Consumption and Agenda 2030 required Europa Press, at the time this petition was launched, that from the ministry they cannot study this case because they have no competences and pointed out that “the possibility that they can go to The same residence exists, but it depends on the autonomous community ».
The son of Desiderio and Soledad remembers that choosing a private residence everything would be solved, but points out the high cost that would be because both places would cost about 5,000 euros per month. “Who can spend that once a month?” He asks.
José says that separating his parents overnight would be “a heartbreaking experience for them” and, therefore, insists on the need to change the scale “so that elderly couples, especially those who deal with chronic diseases such as the Alzheimer, they can finish their days together ». “Well, although the memory is erased, that love is maintained between them and the last thing that is lost is love,” he said.
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