The concept of "Ageing in place", which has influenced ageing policies since the 1990s, nowadays goes hand in hand with the notion of age-friendliness. To promote ageing at home, spaces must be designed in a friendly way, taking into account the needs of ageing people.
Juan Albarrán
Researcher
Graduate in Applied Sociology from the UPNA (2016), Postgraduate in Participatory Processes and Methodologies from the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (2021) Expert in Qualitative Methodologies and Development of Agile Methodologies for Innovation and Gamification, Research, Action and Community Participation,
Social Project Design and training in Gender Perspective Inclusion in CCSS from COLSOCPONA. His experience is shaped by the design, implementation and evaluation of research projects using mixed methodologies. He has conducted studies on active ageing as progress in rural areas and community intervention using the From-Below model and the Community Social Work model.
In this field, he has been a speaker at various sociology conferences and has published articles on Community Development and Intervention through the Foundation for Rural Studies and FES. He was responsible for the first cohousing project in Navarre, the Citizen Observatory and the Citizen Laboratory of Pamplona-Iruña with an innovative approach to socio-community intervention. He is also director of Meta Investigación Social S.L., coordinating research and citizen participation processes in both urban and rural areas, with the aim of focusing research as an opportunity for collective and horizontal decision-making for social transformation.
He currently works as a researcher at Matia Instituto, participating in projects focused on friendliness, group facilitation and community prevention. He is part of the Euskadi Lagunkoia team, accompanying municipalities in Álava in promoting more friendly environments for older people and developing materials to guide their transformation processes. He also works on the Farmacia Lagunkoia programme, promoting the preventive role of pharmacies as community health agents and developing content and tools to facilitate its implementation in different municipalities. She collaborates on the Basque Strategy for Older People, the Adinberri SIA Observatory, and the 100Fluencers study, which analyses the representation of old age in the media through innovative methodologies based on artificial intelligence. She also participates in the Lugaritz – Homes for Life project, which explores new models of coexistence and care for older people in community settings.
juan.albarran@matia.eus
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