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Main result
Urban plan
Title
Day Care Center for the Elderly (KEFI)
Date
Since 2001 Greece has been given the possibility of licensing and operating KEFI
Objectives
The aim of the programme is to keep 3 rd and 4th age people in the relevant natural and social environment, to maintain family cohesion, to harmonise family and working life with an elderly member, to avoid institutional care and social exclusion, to ensure a decent living and to improve the quality of life of the elderly and other family members.
Location /geographical coverage
Greece
Organisation responsible for good practice
Stakeholders and partners
Τhe main beneficiaries of “Green Corridors” project are residents of the City of Medellín.
Short summary
Impact
The programme shall be governed by the recognized specific principles, which they refer to the elderly. Particular emphasis is placed on safeguarding the following rights:
• To live in decent living conditions in the familiar natural and their social environment.
• Be supported in order to maintain autonomy, social participation, communication and self-sufficiency.
• Enjoy social care services, where they ensure health and quality living.
• Kifis have an extremely positive impact on the elderly.
• They provide day-to-day hospitality services, including: nursing care, care to meet practical living needs, personal hygiene, creative Employment.
• Programs to the extent possible, programs for the development of functional and social skills.
The final beneficiary of the establishment and operation of the structure may provide a travel service for guests to and from KEFI, if they have a means of transport.
Innovation
Kifis from their urban planning and as a condition for obtaining their operating permit, must have the appropriate air conditioning equipment that shapes the climate in their interiors in a way that extreme weather events such as heat waves or excessive cold, do not affect the daily life of the servicers and employees, providing a sense of comfort and safety to them. The minimum indoor temperature is predicted for winter at 22 °C and for summer at 26 °C — 28 °C, while the relative humidity will be 50 %.
Lessons learned
Sustainability
The answer to the above question refers to part of the historical foundation of KEFI of the Municipality of Drama in 2017. Since then, KIFI has been operating smoothly except during the pandemic that suspended its operation. The Municipality of Drama included the operation of KEFI in the city of Drama based on demographic, social and environmental needs as reflected in the “Integrated Urban Renaissance Plan of the Municipality of Drama”. More specifically:
The population of the Municipality of Drama, according to the indicators of ageing of the Statistical Service, is growing older and it turns out that Drama is getting older and even quickly. In this context, with the increase of the ageing index on the one hand, combined with the social and economic upheavals on the other, they brought Local Government in front of the spectrum of adjustment of its social role and the adoption of appropriate planning, so as to meet future social needs, ensuring a quality life perspective for every citizen. Thus, the creation of a Day Care Centre for the Elderly in the Municipality of Drama was put on the table. The construction of KEFI of the Municipality of Drama took place within the framework of the “Integrated Urban Renaissance Plan of the Municipality of Drama” and was funded with funds from the European Regional Development Fund, through the Operational Programme “Macedonia — Thrace 2007-2013” of the Region of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace. The Centre for the Day Care of the Elderly (KEFI) of the Municipality of Drama is a typical example of how the EU Cohesion Policy contributes not only to the creation of a project, but then it also has the necessary resources for its operation. It was constructed through the NSRF programme during the previous period (2007- 2013) and operates through the same programme in the current funding period (2014-2020). In fact, the necessary double funding came from two different EU Cohesion Policy Funds, the European Regional Development Fund for its construction and the European Social Fund for its operation.
Therefore, thanks to Cohesion Policy funds, the elderly stay in a familiar natural and social environment and live in dignity, avoid institutional care and social exclusion and improve the quality of life of the elderly, but also of the other members of their family.
Replicability and/or up-scaling
The Greek state and more specifically the Ministry of Development and Investment, assessing the positive results of the operation of KEFI in Greece and in order to further facilitate the wider expansion of the good practice of KEFI, proceeded in 2021 to reform the licensing law of KEFI and legislate the “Simplification of the establishment and operation of Day Care Centres for the Elderly and Two Day Care Centres for People with Disabilities”. http://www.opengov.gr/ypoian/?p=11941
Contact details
Social Cooperative of Cyclades - Miltos Sakellariou, Αpostolos Efkarpidis Kepos-
Manna, 84100 Syros
CYCLADES-GREECE
tel:+306972204356
E-Μail: alteravitacyclades@gmail.com
E-Learning: https://e-learning.alteravita.eu/
Related Web site(s)
What are the webpages of the projects where good practice has been identified
and replicated?
Indicatively, the following are mentioned:
• Kifi Municipality of Agrinio https://socialpolicy-pde.gr/domes/kifi-dimoy-agrinioy/
• Kifi Municipality of Rethymno
https://www.rethymno.gr/municipality/kifi/kifi.html
• Kifi Chania https://www.chania-culture.gr/keppedich-kam/kifi/epikoinonia-me-to-k-i-f-i/
• Kifi Municipality of Neapoli Sykeon Thessaloniki
• Kifi Municipality of Drama http://www.npddramas.gr/kifi.html
• Kifi Municipality of Ioannina https://okpapa.gr/kifi-kentro-imerisias-frontidas-ilikiomenon/
Related resources that have been developed
What training manuals, guidelines, data sheets, posters, images, video and audio documents have been developed in good practice?
• Ministerial Decision P1c/GAP/οικ. 14963/2001 — GOVERNMENT GAZETTE,
SERIES II, NO 1397/22-10-2001
Conditions for the establishment and operation of Day Care Centres for the Elderly (K.I.F.H.) https://www.e-nomothesia.gr/autodioikese-demoi/upourgike-apophase-p1g-agp-oik-14963-2001.html
• Simplification of the framework for carrying out economic activities within the remit of Ministries of Development and Investment, Education and Religious Affairs, Labour and Social Affairs, Maritime and Island Policy, Infrastructure and Transport
http://www.opengov.gr/ypoian/?p=11944
• Draft description of the action and instructions for drawing up the Rules of Procedure: ‘Centres for the Day Care of the Elderly (KEFI)
https://okpapa.gr/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/kanonismos-kifi-
• Thesis titled: The institution of the Day Care Centres for the Elderly. The case of Kozani KIFI.
http://nestor.teipel.gr/xmlui/bitstream/handle/123456789/12418/SDO_D
MYP_00380_Medium.pdf?sequence=1
• Day Care Center for the Elderly (KEFI) Municipality of Preveza https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMEmcKbnqLw
• The Day Care Centres for the Elderly Northern and Central Corfu at the Kapodistrias Museum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur32CmWpY-c
• Day Care Center for the Elderly Municipality of Lefkada