Social Security

Benefits for the elderly

• Nursing Homes and Residences:

Day-care centres (nursing homes, clubs, etc.): open establishments that provide social and support services to beneficiaries, as long as they meet certain requirements, and carry out cultural, sports, tourism and handicraft activities etc., with the objective of encouraging the integration and coexistence of elderly people in society, as well as improving their well-being and quality of life.

Residential care homes: permanent residences where comprehensive and continuous support is provided to people who cannot take care of themselves, as long as they meet the required criteria.

There are different types depending on the Autonomous Community: sheltered apartments, flats and homes, community housing, residential care homes, etc. 

Guide-Directory, of the IMSERSO , on residential care homes and nursing homes for the elderly.

• Vacations / tourism:

This service gives elderly people the possibility to enjoy periods of vacations in warm climates, as well as making cultural trips to places of tourist interest and nature trips.

More information on beneficiary requirements, characteristics of the trips, deadlines and submission of applications, etc.

• Thermal therapy:

Supplementary service to facilitate access to thermal facilities for people who need such services as prescribed by a doctor.

More information on beneficiary requirements, stays, treatments, spas, application and deadlines, etc.

• Home Assistance:

This help is to support and prolong the stay of elderly people who have with problems in their own homes, as much as possible:

• Telephone support.
• Personal Assistance: company, personal hygiene and meals.
• Domestic Service: Help in everyday domestic chores.
• Home delivery of meals.
• Technical support and functional modification of the home, in order to facilitate independence in the family home for people with mobility problems.

More information for elderly people (existing programmes in the different Autonomous Communities, residential care homes, addresses, etc.) at the Observatory for Elderly People.

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Benefits for people with disabilities

• Centres:

Facilities for rehabilitation and/or psychiatric or physical recovery for people with some type of disability. Depending on the disability, these residential facilities may be:

Centres for People with Physical Disabilities:

• Care Centres for People with Physical Disabilities (CAMFs): these have a national scope, which means disabled people from all over Spain can access them.
  
  More information on CAMFs (who can access these facilities, applications, addresses, etc.).

• Rehabilitation Centres for People with Physical Disabilities (CRMFs): these have a national scope, which means disabled people from all over Spain can access them.
  
  More information on CRMFs (who can access these facilities, applications, addresses, etc.).

Centres for People with Mental Disabilities:

• Care Centres for People with Serious Psychiatric Disorders (CAMPs): these centres provide care and support to people with mental disorders who, due to the nature of their illness, require specific treatment in order to achieve the greatest possible social integration and personal rehabilitation.

• Occupational Centres (CO): these centres provide occupational therapy, as well as personal and social adjustment services to people with disabilities, whose serious temporal or permanent disability makes it impossible for them to work for a company or a special employment centre. 

• Accessibility - elimination of physical barriers:

Accessibility.

• Vacations and Thermal Baths Programs:

Aimed at achieving personal and social integration for people with disabilities, through their participation in holiday trips and their access to thermal facilities.

Programmes and Support provided by IMSERSO.

• Other links of interest for people with disabilities:

Employment - INEM  (contracts, special employment centres, self-employed workers, etc.).

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Management

The management of social services is the responsibility of the competent bodies of each Autonomous Community and of the Provincial Directorates of the Institute for the Elderly and Social Services (IMSERSO) in the cities of Ceuta and Melilla.

Flag	Autonomous Community	Flag	Autonomous Community	Flag	Autonomous Community	Flag	Autonomous Community
	Andalusia		Castilla-La Mancha		Galicia		Murcia
	Aragón		Castile and León		Balearic Islands		Navarra
	Asturias		Catalonia		La Rioja		The Basque Country
	The Canary Islands		Ceuta		Madrid		Valencian
	Cantabria		Extremadura		Melilla

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