Activity report of the Council for the Elderly from 2022

Overview

The Elderly Council met eight times.

During 2022, the corona restrictions eased, although the disease itself remained in the population. Elderly people dared to move again, which was also visible during the week for the elderly organized by the Council for the Elderly.

The Elderly Council chose fall prevention as the theme of the year. Despite the campaign, the number of hip fractures at Imatra rose from 2020 in 2021 and 72 to 89 in 2022.

During 2022, the elderly council of the welfare area that started in 2023 was established, to which one representative from the elderly council was elected from Imatra, like other municipalities.

The representative of Imatra's Christian pensioners submitted a resignation to the elderly council due to the dissolution of the association. As a result, the Council of the Elderly began to identify a new member of the Council of the Elderly, which led to a review of the Council's rules of procedure. The Council for the Elderly wants to expand the field of organizations from which members can be recruited to the Council for the Elderly. The amendment proposal is going to be considered by the city council at the beginning of 2023.

Initiatives

The Elderly Council took the initiative about restoring the library's home service. The welfare board did not approve the initiative as such, but the elderly council reworked it and at the beginning of 2023, the initiative will go before the welfare board again.

The Imatra Elderly Council proposed The Imatra senior citizen of the year award establishment. The initiative was approved by the city council in 2023. Imatra's own annual award is presented at the Senior Citizens' Week celebration. The Imatra elderly person of the year will be awarded with a recognition prize of 500 euros.

The welfare board approved the shoes of the initiative submitted by the elderly council in 2021 about procuring skid barriers and reflective harnesses For people from Imatra over 75 years old. 1700 reflective harnesses and 1000 pairs of anti-slides were ordered. In January 2023, both reflector harnesses and skid barriers had been picked up, just under a thousand of both.

Done by the Senior Citizens Council at the end of 2021 initiative for a free senior pass was discussed in 2022, but it did not go through the welfare board.

Pleadings

The Elderly Council comments on the city of Imatra participate and influence program priorities.

Elderly Council statement of the city of Imatra about equality and equality plan.

In addition, the Elderly Council sent a letter to the social and health district of South Karelia, where the elderly council demanded the provision of breast cancer screening as a local service for the residents of the northern end of the province.

Statements on formula changes

The Council for the Elderly decided to support the general formula in its statement "A bigger Imatra 2040" from nature, with the exception that the beaches and forests of the Lempukka and Hosseinlahti area must be preserved as nature areas and for general recreational use for residents of our own city of all ages as well as tourists. Construction should not be allowed in the area.

The Council for the Elderly decided in its statement to support the change in the site plan 1113 Saarlammen Koivuniemi moving the site plan forward.

Button angle formula 1112. The Council of Elders decided to support the plan, but notes that when granting a building permit, special attention should be paid to the fact that the building fits into Imatra's most valuable cultural environment, the Imatrankoski national landscape. Likewise, care must be taken that the building fits in with the rest of Imatrankoski's zoning. It was noted that Marja-Leena Patrakka left a dissenting opinion on the matter.

Issuing a statement site plan 1127, Linnankoski Aurinkopuisto. The Council of Senior Citizens has a positive attitude towards the construction of clean energy production, but hopes that factors affecting the landscape will be taken into account carefully in the preparation of the scheme.

Events

Seniors week 2-9.10.2022 a committee was established to prepare the event, to which Sirpa Hämäläinen (chairman), Tuire Yilmaz, Irma Hujanen and Mervi Hasu were appointed.

The theme of the week was "Together with nature - the right of every age".

The week was organized in cooperation with a diverse network of partners. The Senior Citizens' Council was responsible for organizing the Voimaa vhunuuet sports event and the Senior Citizens' Week celebration.

Senior Citizens' Week received very good feedback. The program for the celebration of the elderly week was especially praised. The number of participants in the party was more than 200 people.

Many members of the elderly council participated in the event organized by Eksote For the day of influencing the elderly At the Imatra town hall on 11.5. The purpose of the event was to improve the participation of the elderly and prevent falls. About 20 people came to the place. 

Maili Hanski, member of the Elderly Council participated in the national one For the Elderly Council Day.

Projects

Imatra's elderly council participated in the Accessible and safe Imatra project, where accessibility walks were carried out in Vuoksenniska and Imatrankoski, areas of special level of accessibility were defined in Imatrankoski, Vuoksenniska and Mansikkala, experiences of using public transport were asked, the method of providing accessibility feedback and the accessibility of public transport were developed.

In addition, the elderly council heard about the results of other organizations' projects at its meetings, and several council members participated in their steering group work.

Notifications and presentations

In the meetings, the Council of the Elderly was presented with a wide variety of projects, trainings and events concerning the elderly, and the information of various organizations and their decision-making was brought to the Council of the Elderly's attention. With this, the Council for the Elderly also acted as an important information broker in 2022.