As every Tuesday and Thursday, from 10:15 in the morning to 12:15 noon, the members of Age Care meet at Club La Naranja in Calahonda for breakfast. But this is much more than just coffee and pastries. It is a time to socialize, to have fun with board games, to practice adapted aerobics classes or participate in painting or Spanish workshops.

There are many services provided by this association to elderly foreigners living in Mijas.
Age Care also provides these people with translation services or accompaniment to their medical appointments and played a key role during the pandemic, a task that the Mijas government team values.

Mayor Josele González (PSOE), who visited them on Thursday the 23rd, assured that “with them, we have solved very complicated personal problems faced by foreign residents, precisely because of the lack of attention from their own relatives living outside this country”.

This has led to the creation of a network in which different agencies participate with Age Care, as highlighted by the councillor for Social Services, Hipólito Zapico (PSOE): “what we did is create the Apemex group, driven by the Local Police of Mijas through the figure of the Guardian Agent, coordinating all these actions that they do and focus them on the needs that we received information about  in Social Services to address the problems of some families.

Mijas, the largest group

Age Care is also present in Fuengirola, Benalmádena, Alhaurín el Grande and Coín. The Mijas group is the largest. From Calahonda they attend to more than 400 people of different nationalities, mostly British.

Their role, according to the councillor for Foreigners in the Mijas Town Hall, Arancha Lopez (Cs), has become essential for these foreign seniors, since “many of them need this type of associations to be able to go out and have help with some of the basic facilities in their daily lives and, of course, to socialize”.

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