The town of Ełk acceded to the implementation of the pilot program implementation of care services in the form of telecare. In the year 2018 support will be covered by the 20 residents of Elk.

Recipients of teleopiekuńczych services will be residents of Elk above 60 years of age, both women and men, in particular, single people and sick. One of the conditions for joining the program is having a non-proprietary and non-locked no mobile or landline.

Teleopiekuńcze service will be directed to persons whose health or life can be really threatened, and they are not able to call for help in a traditional way.

The goal of the program is to provide 24-hour on-call emergency Center Emergency and its readiness to perform the outsourced procedures after receiving a signal from a person covered by teleopiekuńczymi services through the "red button emergency".

Emergency Center of Emergency caused alarm and the problem will notify one of the people to the contact indicated in the information document, and, if necessary, calls an ambulance and (or) Police and (or) Fire Department under the recipient's address services teleopiekuńczych.

Project in the year 2018 will be implemented thanks to the financial support Marshal's Office of the Warmińsko-Mazurskie.

Detailed information, please contact staff of the urban social welfare centre in Elk, ul. Piłsudski 8, 87 732 67 18, 87 732 67 21 or 87 732 65 40.