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IX International Congress on Dependence and Quality of Life "Social and health integration: a reality check".

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 Location: Barcelona / Online

This event focuses on the need to work, following the experience of the COVID, on the urgent development of real socio-health services in the framework of long-term care, demanding them in both institutional and home settings; as well as on the need to have sufficient and appropriate professionals from the social and health sectors, working as a team, in an integrated manner, to tackle, with guarantees and quality, the comorbidity that affects the elderly and that has repercussions on their health and on the rest of their lives.

Website of the organising body

Professionals

XVI International Lares-EAN Congress: “Long-term care: Team and talent”

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 Type: Congress
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 Location: Alicante

Under the slogan "Long-term care: Team and talent", professionals from different countries will meet to discuss long-term care, find solutions, show and share good practices, examples and contribute new ideas. The challenges of human resources in the sector; the life of work teams, their leadership, communication, mediation as a tool, etc. will be part of the working sessions.

Programme Congress website

Professionals

The present and the future of long-term care

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 Type: Others
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 Location: Vitoria-Gasteiz

Conference as part of the series of talks "New reality, new rights, new solutions" organised by the Association 'Por una vida digna'. Our colleague and researcher at Matia Instituto, Nerea Etxaniz, will talk about the "Present and future of dependency care". 

The event will take place this Thursday, 4 November, at the Fundación Vital lecture hall (Vitoria-Gasteiz).

Web of the organising entity

Professionals

Regional Policy Dialogue: Pillars of Support for Dependency. How to build a care system

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 Type: Others
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 Location: Washington, D.C.

Latin America and the Caribbean is the fastest ageing region in the world. This creates opportunities to improve the quality of life of older adults, create new jobs for caregivers, promote gender equity and reduce healthcare costs, among others. At the same time, it brings with it important challenges, including the need for financial protection (pensions), and access to quality health services and support for people with functional dependency.

Meeting programme Event website

Professionals

V EDEtik Dialogues&Learnings: "Care in the new normal for carers"

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 Location: Online

On 5 November, the fifth EDEtik Dialogues & Learnings meeting was held under the title "Care for carers in the new normality". This virtual meeting was attended, among other guests, by our colleague Nerea Galdona, coordinator at the Matía Foundation of the "Sendian" programme and of the training programme for carers associated with the "PECEF" financial aid.

Informe de resultados EDE Fundazioa

Professionals