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65th SEGG Congress and 28th SCGiG Congress

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 Location: Barcelona

An event that, as every year, brings together specialists in geriatrics and gerontology to discuss how to age better and how to work together to achieve this. This year, under the slogan ‘Innovate, integrate, interconnect: our present and future’, the challenges posed by the longevity of our society will once again be addressed, along with the opportunity to adopt innovative solutions, integrate healthcare and social care from a community perspective rather than just a care perspective, and the need to work in complex teams in a cross-cutting manner.

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Unravelling loneliness: types, risk factors and consequences

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 Location: Online

During a series of three training sessions, the General Council of Official Colleges of Pharmacists, together with IMSERSO, will comprehensively address an increasingly pressing social issue: loneliness.

This first session focuses on providing participants with in-depth knowledge about the different types of loneliness, the associated risk factors and the potential physical and emotional consequences for those who suffer from it, preparing pharmacists to unravel the complexities of loneliness in their communities and contribute to improving social and emotional well-being.

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Loneliness: a common issue

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 Location: Barakaldo

Training activity organised by the Innovation Unit of Cruces University Hospital (Barakaldo, Bizkaia) as part of its innovation sessions (#berripills). The speakers at the event were Roberto Nuño, Director of Matia Osasun (health services of the Matia Foundation) and Sara Marsillas, researcher at Matia Institute, who presented the work of the Matia Foundation and the research being carried out by Matia Institute in the field of unwanted loneliness.

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Boas Prácticas e Iniciativas para Maiores en Compostela

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 Location: Santiago de Compostela

Sara Marsillas, researcher at Matia Instituto, participates next Tuesday, November 18 in an interesting conference on good practices and initiatives for the elderly organized by the City Council of Santiago de Compostela.

Our colleague will be in charge of closing the event by giving a lecture on: “Research and innovation in elderly care: effective strategies to combat unwanted loneliness”.

You can register through the following email: maioresconcellodesantiago@gmail.com

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Caregiving strategies and unwanted loneliness in rural areas

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 Location: Vitoria-Gasteiz

Nagusilan Araba organizes, on November 7 at the Europa Conference Center, a conference to reflect on unwanted loneliness in rural areas, and the strategies that are being developed and that have emerged from the community level.

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Lifelong care

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 Location: Siero (Asturias)

The Department of Social Rights and Welfare of the Principality of Asturias and the newspaper “El Comercio” organize a meeting in the municipality of Siero to talk about challenges and opportunities of the care and support system in a context of low birth rate and marked aging of the population.

Our colleague Sara Marsilla, researcher at Matia Institute, will participate in one of the tables talking about one of the main challenges, such as the different forms of loneliness present in our society.

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Dimensions of loneliness during aging: empirical evidence for public policy making.

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 Location: Madrid

This event is part of the activities of the Apoyo+65 project, an initiative of the Complutense University of Madrid whose objective is to delve into the meaning of social support, loneliness, and the well-being of the elderly in the social scenario resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, which is likely to last over time. 

With the interest of deepening in aspects related to the different experiences of loneliness and social support, a round table with experts who will address the following topics is organized:

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Technical Seminar of the Directorate General for the Elderly 2023 'Integral Person-Centred Care: we continue to move forward'.

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 Location: Centro Cultural Eduardo Úrculo (Madrid)

After establishing a general "theoretical" framework, the components linked to older people and professionals, the physical environment and organisations will be presented at different tables.

Ethical aspects and the growing trend towards deinstitutionalisation and the promotion of ageing at home, a fundamental pillar of municipal services for the elderly, will also be addressed. Knowing that the experience in the model is greater in the world of centres and especially in residential centres, it is essential to address the model also at home.

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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.

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XXXIII Annual International Congress of Gerontology and Geriatrics: Loneliness and social isolation. New challenges and resources

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 Location: Museo Verbum - Vigo

Although it is difficult to measure social isolation and loneliness accurately, there is strong evidence that many adults aged 50 and older are socially isolated or lonely in ways that put their health at risk. Older people are at greater risk of loneliness and social isolation because they are more likely to face factors such as living alone, losing family or friends, chronic illness and hearing loss.

This congress of the Sociedade Galega de Xerontoloxía e Xeriatría will reflect on this complex phenomenon with very diverse expressions.

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