The former ARS gallery in Peuerbach (opposite the Sparkasse) will be the location of the new “Center Together”. The aim of this pilot project, which is being launched in a total of five regions in Upper Austria under the title “Generations Together”, is to counteract the loneliness of older people, to promote healthy active aging and to create new offers for the over 60-year-olds.
The generation mobile, an electric bus that older people can use to go shopping or to the doctor, for example, will soon start in Peuerbach. You will be picked up at home, an entry point is also planned directly at the “Miteinander” center. The generation mobile was selected by the Sparkasse Eferding-Peuerbach-Waizenkirchen as one of the best initiatives in their “Project 21” and is being supported with 25,000 euros. The leased Mercedes e-bus should be delivered in the next few days. At the latest, however, it will be in action for the kick-off event on June 9th. The “Miteinander Center” is both the workplace of the regional volunteer and health coordinators Karin Schneeberger and Sonja Schabetsberger and a meeting point for the older residents of Peuerbach and Steegen. “The aim is that in the next two years new offers will be created, a network will be built up and the center will then run by itself,” says Mayor Roland Schauer (Bürgerliste GZBWP). Ideas as to how the center can be revived are also being developed in the current citizen participation process “Agenda 21”.
Schabetsberger and Schneeberger emphasize that older people should be able to have a better quality of life through greater integration. “By promoting cross-generational, voluntary commitment and neighborhood help, the community in the communities should be strengthened.”
The initiative is funded by the state’s social departments and the Ministry of Social Affairs, and is implemented by the non-profit association “dieziwi – die civil society works”. (krai)
Source: Nachrichten
