Mayte Sancho

09 January 2022

Ten proposals for ageing well in long-lived societies

  The steady and unstoppable growth of ageing people imposes new challenges to be faced as a society and as individuals. Aspects such as the...

21 August 2020

Let's talk about alonenesses: What does the evidence point to?. Main reflections and findings of the Bakardadeak study

A few weeks ago, in this same blog, we reflected on a complex and nuanced phenomenon such as "loneliness", raising some questions that led us to...

19 May 2020

Where are you going, "Soledad"? A conceptual approach to a complex and nuanced phenomenon.

Loneliness is one of the great current issues, both from an academic and a social point of view. We are talking about a phenomenon that, in recent...

14 June 2018

How would you like to be cared for? Put yourself in my place.

As the United Nations points out, "the abuse of older persons is a global social problem affecting the health and human rights of millions of older...

05 October 2015

Living in solitude. An opportunity and a social and personal challenge

Many older people live alone. Around 1,860,000. Most of them prefer to live in their own homes for the rest of their lives. More than seven out of...

30 June 2015

People-centred care model. Challenges of a cultural change

The application of the knowledge acquired in the field of research provides sufficient scientific evidence of the goodness of the Person-Centred Care...

26 August 2013

Friendliness, active ageing and citizenship

The Age-Friendly Cities movement was launched by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2005 at the 18th World Congress of Gerontology in Rio de...

09 August 2013

Ageing and abuse. A shared responsibility.

In the entry we want to share with you the article written by Mayte Sancho on ageing and mistreatment, published in the Diario Vasco on the occasion...