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.
Living Center for 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