The Consell de Mallorca will add 85 new public residential places for the elderly in the next 15 days: 35 from the Miquel Mir and another 50 from the Hermanitas de los Pobres.
The Miquel Mir residence for dependent elderly people in Inca will begin to receive the first admissions on Tuesday 21 January, following a process of comprehensive reform of the centre. The IMAS will be in charge of managing these public places, 50 in total, which will be gradually incorporated over the coming months.
‘We are making an effort like never before to develop care for dependent persons with the creation of places and the acquisition of new equipment. In addition to the opening of the Miquel Mir, which will add 35 public residential places and 15-day centre places to the Public Network of Care for Dependency, we will also add a further 50 residential places and, later, 25-day centre places for the Little Sisters of the Poor,’ stressed the councillor for Social Welfare and president of IMAS, Guillermo Sánchez.
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The Miquel Mir Residence Hall will receive the first users on Tuesday 21 January
Specifically, until now, the island institution managed 880 public residential places and, from 2025, it will manage 965. In terms of public day centre places, IMAS currently manages 115, which will increase to 155 next year. In addition, it has 865 places in different residences in Mallorca and 80 more in day centres.
Miquel Mir refurbishment
The works at the Miquel Mir residence have involved the refurbishment, modernisation and adaptation of the spaces following the criteria of accessibility in the rooms, common areas and services, to adapt all of the facilities to the more personalised care model based on cohabitation units. In this sense, the councillor said: ‘The Consell de Mallorca is working to give back, with public investment and quality care, everything that has been done and is being done by professionals in the field of social and health care and by the elderly. We are now at a time of transformation, and the change must be made by investing in social policies, offering better care and recognising their work. We do this by setting up resources such as this one.
The residence, located on a plot of land owned by the Town Hall, was transferred to the Consell de Mallorca, whose refurbishment has had a cost of 4 million euros financed by IMAS and 52% by the European Next Generation funds through an agreement between the Conselleria de Familias y Asuntos Sociales and the Ministry of Social Rights and Agenda 2030. In addition to the management of the centre, IMAS has also taken over the professionals who were working at the residence at the time, most of whom have begun to gradually rejoin the Miquel Mir.
The president of IMAS also stressed that not only in residences ‘a quantitative and qualitative leap has been made, but also, within the dependency care, other services have been promoted and increased, such as comprehensive home care, which is now operational 365 days a year, so that the elderly and their families can adapt to one service or another as their needs change’.