Services for seniors Poitou-Charentes

This company offers services reserved for elderly, isolated or disabled people. The agency is part of the Golden Age Network, which brings together more than one hundred of the entire French territory. It proposes a range of benefits: daily accompaniment (travel, travel, home help), deliveries, bricolage and gardening, dispatching, hospitalization returns. The stakeholders - who are all holders of prevention and civic relief - are anxious to respond effectively to people by being attentive to everyone's concerns. Therefore, benefits are eligible for tax cuts.

This is the possibility for elderly people to benefit from a free book port at home. This action is jointly organized by the Municipal Centre for Social Action - Service of Pensioners - and the municipal library of the hospital. Both bodies share the work: in the morning for the first, the afternoon for the second. This service can extend to all persons who are unable to travel - long illness, accident, disability, maternity leave… So, books for adults but also for young or large print are available.

The SPASAD (Multi-purpose service and Home Care Service) is a structure that has enabled the French Mutuality of Charente-Maritime to reconcile the project of a mutual company built around the person and an efficient mode of organisation. The medical staff of this service care for the elderly in their homes and also some persons with a disability. Household helpers, homeworkers and carers make up teams to accompany them on a daily basis and trained nurses are responsible for care.

In 1998, the year of the beginning, this service delivered 6 000 meals. Today, the yellow freezer wagons from the Tri-car distribute 365 days a year nearly 28 000 meals for about 130 people thanks to four representatives of delivery. The dishes offered are healthy and balanced. It is possible to ask for your meal be cut or mixed. The hygiene and security, the Tri-car takes all measures to ensure them with meals delivered in refrigerated vehicles and isothermal cases.

These courses of initiation and development are offered by the artisans of La Cité de L'Hara.

The Zen House: calligraphy personalized with ink from China and on bamboo paper, made in thirty minutes. Courses and training courses for Chinese calligraphy, Chinese ink painting courses (ShuiMo), held by Enzhi Yang.

LGBT Association, which brings together all those who enjoy hiking in full nature, the history of finding and organising trips that are user-friendly and without discrimination!

La Rochelle is a city that offers many services to people in precarious situations. This association offers screening and prevention services for HIV and hepatitis. It is also possible to go to the center to obtain prevention materials or to benefit from immediate care in the event of an emergency.