ANTEAS FerraraNational Association of the

Third Age Active for Solidarity

Associated partner of Eur.adi.po.net

Ferrara – The Cathedral

Ferrara – The Castle

Main AIMS• Social Services• Assistance to the elderly• Service of animation

Target• Elderly in general• Dependent elderly• People who are socially excluded

Main Activities

•Health Care•Transport for sick people•Accompaniment •Socio-cultural animation

Health Care

In the 6 surgeries(1) of the Association, some retired trained nurses(2) make simple activities like small dressings, measures of blood pressure, cholesterol and glycemia.Besides they give injections free of charge without any financial cost. To keep in mind that in Ferrara trained nurses wants 6 € for each injection, which are to much for a retired person.

(1) Anteas has got 5 surgeries in the province of Ferrara and 1 in the city center.(2)The trained nurses who give injections are insured.

Social surgery

Transport sick

Volunteers transport sick people to the hospital for therapies. To carry out this service, ANTEAS has got 11 means of transport in the province of Ferrara.

ANTEAS carries out projects cooperating with the local Health Services.

Transport service

Accompaniment

Some volunteers visit old lonely people at their home to keep them company or to transport them to the market for shopping and, why not, for a walk in the park.

Social and cultural animation Management of meetings to encourage the socialization and to rise the culture of the partecipants, on occasion of Women fest, First of May, chestnut fest, and so on.

An amusing moment of the animation

ANTEAS finances its self by

•membership cards (8 € for each member);

•donations of banks;

•offers of private people for received services;

•management of trips, tumbles, lotteries.

Main problems of the Organization

• To recruit voluntary nurses and drivers;

• to carry out traning courses for the voluntiers; • to carry out seminars to support and increase the

volunteers’ motivation.

Ferrara is close to The delta Po. It takes 1 hour

to get to the Delta PO by car.

Ferrara is close to Venice. It takes 1 hour and a half to get to Venice by car.

Ferrara is close to The Dolomites. It takes 2 hours to get to the Dolomites.