Long-term care and support plan: deinstitutionalisation, equipment and technology

In line with Reform 1 of this component, Spain shall invest in six action areas.

1. In a long-term support plan analysing the current situation of care policies that aims to identify needs for improvement and making proposal for the reform of the current law on personal autonomy and care for people in a situation of dependency. It shall also evaluate the situation and ongoing projects in different territories;
2. A national deinstitutionalisation strategy, including the implementation of awareness-raising and dissemination campaigns;
3. Four pilot projects aimed at boosting deinstitutionalization, and drawing lessons for the transforming of support and long-term care, including for support and long-term care for persons with intellectual disabilities;
4. Construction and refurbishment of residential, non-residential and day care centres, and investment equipment to improve the quality of care services. These investment projects shall be implemented by the autonomous communities based on the assessment of territorial needs; and ensuring that new and refurbished residential places are aligned to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
5. Reform of community-integrated day care centres, including in rural areas, run by IMSERSO (Instituto de Mayores y Servicios Social, under the Ministry of Social Rights and Agenda 2030). Eleven centres shall be reformed and adapted to the new long-term care model focusing on persons with physical disabilities, corresponding to 1 100 places. Investments shall also be dedicated to innovative projects in the same centres; and
6. New tele-care services to move towards proactive and personalised care that contributes to the personal autonomy and maintenance of people reliant on care in their homes.