Living Center for the Elderly

(V.D.04) Healthcare

With a total area of approximately 60,000 square meters, Barueri has the largest Living Center for the Elderly in Latin America, serving an average of 3,000 seniors every month. The Maturity Park has a gym with state-of-the-art equipment, a heated swimming pool for water aerobics, a multi-sport court for volleyball and adapted basketball, a bocce ball track, a game room, yoga, zumba dance and stretching classes, literacy and digital inclusion for the elderly, handicrafts, music, theater and cooking classes, psychosocial support with a multidisciplinary team, infirmary with the structure for immediate medical care, in addition to 3 daily meals, dances that take place every 15 days, 1 themed and one birthday of the month, always with live music, space for interaction with nature, ample parking, transportation with buses and vans that circulate through the Park with the elderly.

Official Name of Signatory

Barueri (Sao Paulo)

Delegation

Brazil

Website of the Signatory

Name of the person presenting the Good Practice

Luana Aparecida da Silva

Position/Job Title of person presenting the Good Practice

Partnerships and projects advisor at the Family Secretariat

Aim of the Good Practice

Health life for the elderly

Target Group of the Good Practice

People who has more than 60 years old

Annual Monitoring Report

2024

Implementation period

2008

Consistency over time

2008 untill today

Evaluation of the Good Practice

It´s the largest Living Center for the Elderly in Latin America

Key stakeholders and partnerships

Elderly People

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