Prague 13 has a new car for field care of the elderly
VW Touran C, which will transport senior citizens. Photo: P13
Prague 13 Mayor David Vodrážka (ODS) symbolically handed over the keys to a new car to Jiří Mašek, director of the Social Services Center of Prague 13 (SSSP13). The new VW Touran car will be used for field care of the elderly. Lucie Steinerová, spokeswoman for the city district, informed about it.
“I greatly appreciate the quality of care for the elderly provided by the Center for Social Services. They help our oldest residents, and top-notch work in the field also deserves a quality car. It’s actually such a beautiful Christmas present, not only for the Center, but mainly for the clients it will serve,” said Vodrážka.
The new car is the VW Touran CL. The car meets all the useful features needed to ensure the performance of social care by the Center’s nursing service.
The car is a seven-seater with variably folding seats, so that in addition to the comfortable transport of people, it also enables the creation of a sufficiently large space for the transport of lunches in food carriers, which are placed in transport baskets.
The new car will replace a 14-year-old FIAT DOBLO van, which is technically worn out and its further operation is no longer profitable. “The vehicle fully meets the nature of the traffic that is expected of it when providing off-road care. In addition to the large space, it is mainly about the nature of the drive, when the car often drives short distances and starts and turns off the engine many times,” said SSSP13 director Jiří Mašek.
According to him, the three separate seats in the second row also offer flexible ergonomics for safe use and for the transport of seniors or persons with partially limited mobility or medically handicapped persons, for example walking with the support of canes or with the help of other compensatory aids, walkers.
Two separate seats in the third row when folded, and at the same time enough space for convenient storage and transport of a folded wheelchair or walker.
SSSP13 provides a wide range of services for seniors in Prague 13. The nursing service offers, for example, accompanying to doctors or the post office, arranging shopping, delivering lunches in rented thermoboxes directly to clients’ apartments, transportation in modified cars or cleaning clients’ homes. The building also has a day care center and much-needed separate housing for three dozen seniors. The vehicle was purchased with the contribution of Auto Podbabská.