Population ageing is a great social achievement that poses challenges to ensure the welfare of this population in conditions of equality and sustainability, even more so after the COVID-19 crisis that has had such an impact on the elderly.
Sara Marsillas

PhD in Psychology from Santiago de Compostela University in 2016 and a Master's degree in Organizational Psychology, Forensic Law and Social Intervention in 2012. In 2015, granted by the Barrié Foundation for a stay in the Belgian Ageing Studies research group at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels. Between 2012 and 2015 she worked as a research professional in training and in 2016 as a postdoctoral researcher (USC-Psicom). Her thesis project consisted in the development of a validated measurement tool for active ageing from an individual point of view, referring to the important dimensions for people. During this period she has developed and participated in projects related to active ageing, with its measurement, the use of new technologies by older people, the monitoring of the behaviour of older people living alone or the evaluation of pilot tele-assistance programmes, among others. During the same period she has acquired knowledge of co-creation methodologies such as Design Thinking. She has also worked as a teacher in the Designthinking.gal project and VermisLAB as a teacher of creativity, lateral thinking and intra and interpersonal emotional intelligence.
Projects
This longitudinal study will monitor the Basque population aged 70 and over residing in the community. It will examine the same people over an extended period of time to analyse the ageing process, assess changes, and understand the differences between the different groups.
An initiative of the Adinberri Foundation and the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa, SIA is an open platform for the exchange of information and knowledge on ageing in Gipuzkoa, in the Basque Country and in the societies around us, in its biological, psychological, social, socio-health, physical and
The carrying out of a specific survey on the living conditions of people aged 55 and over in the Basque Country allows the Basque Government to continue with successive previous studies on the reality of older people in this Autonomous Community.
SEE ME is an Erasmus + KA2 project which, through the development of a model and a set of training tools, aims to improve the quality of care and social inclusion of older people.
Egiten ikasi aims to design and develop innovative and contrasted pedagogical resources, based on research and developed in co-creation processes, that favor the acquisition of attitudinal and instrumental competencies for care in the framework of ACP, to promote the advancement of this care appr
Developed societies are facing a new structuring of models of coexistence that generate a growing number of people living alone along their life paths.
Euskadi Lagunkoia is an initiative promoted by the Department of Employment and Social Policies of the Basque Government and implemented by the Fundación Matia, which aims to encourage participation by the elderly, and citizens in general, in order to improve neighbourhoods and environments in th
Investigación colaborativa
Propuesta de análisis tentativo de la influencia de la edad en relación con determinadas suposiciones o consecuencias asociadas con la crisis del coronavirus.
Publications
Participation in forums
Blog posts
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 carry out a study on this subject.
Loneliness is one of the great current issues, both from an academic and a social point of view.
Last week two of the Matia Institute's researchers, Elena del Barrio a
Webinars
Social exclusion is receiving increasing attention in the field of gerontology. This interest comes from a combination of the patterns of demographic aging, current social and economic instability, and the susceptibility of these age cohorts to growing inequalities.
Main reflections and findings of the study "Bakardadeak".