In order to provide citizens squillacesi, and especially the elderly, practical guidance on how to deal with the heat, was held in a specific conference Squillace, on the initiative of Pris (Project Social Commitment), in 'context of the civil service project called "Seniors between past, present and future", with the collaboration of the Health insurance services, the parish of S. Nicola Squillace Lido Calabria Ethics and the Foundation.
After the greetings of the parish priest Father Peter Puglisi, president of Prisa, the sociologist Frank Hunt, showed that the increase in elderly population requires all institutions and organizations to look at this section of the population as people are still able to give their active contribution to the new generations.
"With regard to the policies of health - he added - that means choosing to devote more attention to prevention." The voluntary Dorothy Bosi, presented the initiatives undertaken to date under the draft civil service and next implementation, as the survey on the needs and desires of the elderly population squillacese and testing of a laboratory for gentle exercise.
Peter Gareri, physician geriatrician of the ASP Catanzaro, said che l’attenzione verso i metodi di difesa dal caldo eccessivo è una pratica molto importante per la salute. Nell’estate del 2004, infatti, in Italia si registrarono oltre 4000 decessi di persone anziane proprio a causa dell’eccessiva temperatura climatica.
I rischi maggiori, anche in questo caso, riguardano le persone anziane che vivono da sole. Nel fornire una serie di indicazioni e suggerimenti, Gareri ha suggerito di evitare di uscire da casa nelle ore più calde del giorno, di assicurare uno spazio adeguato nei pasti giornalieri alla frutta e alla verdura, di bere due litri di acqua al giorno, di indossare abiti leggeri.
Mario Cortese, segretario generale della Fondazione Calabria Etica, ha riportato experience carried out in recent years in Catanzaro, by a group of voluntary associations.
"In collaboration with the City the capital - said Cortese - under the project called 'friends groups', we have taken care of the home delivery of daily hot meals to the elderly who lived alone. A
'experience that has strengthened the belief that offering a single person, especially if sick, and the comfort of a presence of a word, will enable energy and resources to help you move forward with greater dignity and serenity. "
22/06/2010