GNR: “Operation Senior Census 2019”. Beja District has 3.573 flagged elderly.
A Guarda Nacional Republicana (GNR), during the month of October 2019, throughout the national territory, He held another edition of Operation "Senior Census".
District of Beja's 3.573 flagged to live alone or isolated, It is the third highest rate in the country, after the districts of Vila Real and Guarda, with 4.736 and 4.183, respectively.
In October 2018, GNR revealed that the largest number of identified elderly living alone or isolated was in Vila Real district (4.515), followed by guard (4.008), Viseu (3.776), Beja (3.715), Bragança (3.385), Lighthouse (3.165) and Portalegre (3.156). Lisbon were identified 1.138 elderly living alone and isolated and Porto 1.168.
During operation this year, the military favored the personal contact and the holding room in stocks, in order to raise awareness and warn this audience not to adopt risky behaviors, avoiding becoming victims of crimes, as theft, theft or scams. So, were realized, since the beginning of the year 2019 to date, 388 room in stocks and 2720 actions door to door, covering a total of 27 727 seniors.
Since the year 2011, year it was held the first edition of Operation "Senior Census", the Guard has built a geographic database, increasingly complete, thus providing better support to our elderly population, which certainly has contributed, on the one hand, to create a climate of greater trust and empathy between the elderly and the military of the GNR and, for another, to increase its capacity to intervene in cases of emergency, enhancing effective security and increasing the sense of security of this population.
In the operation "Senior Census 2019", a GNR, signaled 41 868 seniors living alone and / or isolated, or vulnerable, because of their physical condition, psychological, or else you can put your security in question. View of the foregoing, They were reported to the authorities, especially social support, 215 most vulnerable situations, in order to make your future monitoring, and has received support from other institutions, fruit signaling Guard, a total of 4 274 seniors.
The signals are distributed geographically, as follows:
Aveiro: 1442, Beja: 3573, Braga: 1580, Bragança: 3142, withe Castle: 1867, Coimbra: 1274, Évora: 2657, Lighthouse: 3272, Watch: 4183, Leiria: 1167, Lisbon: 626, Portalegre: 3147, Port: 1026, Santarém: 2047, Setúbal: 1713, Viana do Castelo: 1006, Vila Real: 4736 e Viseu: 3201.
The GNR continue, throughout the year 2019, to follow the signposted elderly, through regular visits to their homes, in order to carry out more awareness-raising and make the safety assessment.
