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Priority is to provide immediate assistance to the older population who lives in isolation or vulnerable: “It’s almost like having a door guard.”
The district command of GNR of Bragança will implement the project over 2025 “e-Guard”, to provide immediate assistance to the older population who lives isolated or in a vulnerable situation in this interior district.
“The ‘E-Guard’ project is inserted in a strategy that is in the alignment of the Republican National Guard (GNR) for the year 2025, in the district of Bragança, which is focused on people, in the context of criminal prevention and community policing, as Priorities, ”explained GNR Command Public Relations Officer in Bragança, Vítor Romualdo today today.
The project “e -guard” rests on a electronic equipment that seeks to develop an integrated response of safety, social action and healthespecially aimed at the most vulnerable people, such as “an effective response in help and support over the age of 65.”
“This project is already implemented in some GNR district commands, with schedules for some municipalities in the Bragança district, for February. The selection of people meet the elderly signaled During the senior annual operation, responding to criteria of dependence, disability, loneliness or isolation, ”said this GNR officer.
According to Lieutenant Colonel Vítor Romualdo, the use of the “e-worked” device will allow the elderly longer time in your homes“Giving security in your comfort zone through a quick response network to the citizen.”
“The elderly who use this equipment will be On 24 hours for days and seven days a week to a military man Which is in the GNR situation room, and can communicate to collect loneliness, such as sudden illness or even report any incident of public order that occurs, ”he said.
The elderly to which this equipment is assigned, after analysis to its situation, will be in permanent contact through a direct connection to the GNR, in the Bragança district.
On the other hand, and suspected of some anomaly, GNR can also contact the elderly and if necessary a patrol is moved to the site to check what is happening, because the device is endowed with a component of georeferencing, and thus be provided with health or safety.
According to Vitor Romualdo, when the user carries in the SOS button The device appears an alarm on the monitoring portal installed in the GNR District Command situation room.
“Through this contact, the situation of the user/elderly is immediately verified and monitored and, if necessary, the travel of GNR military to the site is called. It’s almost like having a guard at the door”This officer explained to Lusa responsible for the project in charge of the Bragança GNR.
The “e-worked” service can also be used in situations of derision or from theft, fires in the surroundings, if an elderly person is lost or disoriented (georeferencing) or with Sudden disease.
Advanced data to Lusa by GNR indicate that in the district of Bragança, in the last five years, they have been recorded between 250 to 300 cases of sudden disease Next to the elderly community, which translates an average of more than 50 occurrences of this kind per year, when several occasions are already found late and lifeless.
“In Bragança district, and in the face of the number of elderly people found lifeless at home, there are two guidance lines: the first are elderly living alone and that after one day or two the neighbors are surprised by their absence and warns the authorities, and We came across the old corpse, ”he explained.
There are still other situations where the elderly live with family members but in their absence is the victim of a sudden disease.
