The Virgen del Carmen Residence for the Elderly Foundation plans the expansion of the center.

The Patronato will auction a plot of land in the Capricho area that cannot be used for care purposes, and will invest the proceeds in the work to provide the center with new spaces.

The Estepona City Council has initiated the procedures for the expansion of the current facilities of the Virgen del Carmen Residence for the Elderly. The first step will be the notarial auction of a plot of land owned by the Foundation-Residence itself, so that the funds obtained will be used for the action to provide more space to this care center that has been operating since the 80s of the last century.

The Board of Trustees of the Foundation, chaired by Mayor José María García Urbano, and which includes representatives of the municipal government team, the municipal opposition parties and entities such as the Association of Brotherhoods and Guilds, the Agricultural Cooperative, the Fishermen’s Guild and the Antonia Guerrero Foundation, agreed at its meeting in October last year to authorize the sale of the plot by auction. It is a land owned by the foundation, which can not be used for welfare use, hence the agreement for its disposal and subsequent use of the funds obtained to the work of expanding the nursing home.

The plot, located in the urbanization El Capricho, has a total area of 483 square meters and has been appraised at 777,160 euros.

The Virgen del Carmen Foundation-Residence is a non-profit organization located in Estepona and created by the City Council in a plenary session in 1984. Since 1987 it has been dedicated to the care and integral attention of the elderly.

The Estepona City Council actively collaborates with this residence and for years has assumed part of the maintenance costs of this facility, such as electricity supply and improvement and maintenance works in this enclosure.

Currently, the center has a total of 153 places, of which 110 are arranged with the Junta de Andalucía and 43 are private. The Residencia de Mayores serves the most needy of Estepona and the region, who do not have the material and functional resources to continue in their homes. Since 2010 it has a Day Care Unit (UED) where workshops, activities and specific therapies are carried out to improve the biopsychosocial situation of the elderly and residents.