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Proposals for the new care needs of people in the ageing process

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 Location: Casa de Cultura de Okendo (Donostia-San Sebastián)

On Wednesday 17 January, our colleagues Iraide Robles, Social Worker - Case Manager at Lugaritz housing, and Maria Karmen Garmendia Lasa, President of the Matia Board of Trustees, gave a talk organised by Helduen Hitza, in which they shared a series of ideas related to care and the current profiles of elderly people. A new longevity with very different lifestyles and needs, to which the care system must adapt, with a new, more community-based, flexible approach, centred on the person and their decision-making. 

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Senior Living Forum

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 Type: Congress
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 Location: Madrid

Senior Living Forum arose as a response to the continued growth of the senior living sector in Spain. This growth is attributed to the increase in life expectancy, the lack of supply, the emergence of new innovative forms of accommodation, the development of Spain as a tourist and residential destination for international seniors, and the creation of new ways of accessing adapted housing for the elderly.

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Conference Challenges of Social and Health Coordination: towards a preventive, personalised and community approach

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 Location: Los Llanos de Aridane (La Palma)

The Cabildo de La Palma and Plena Inclusión Canarias are organising this meeting which aims to make other realities visible in order to respond to the challenges detected and whose main objectives are to go deeper into the models of care and social and health care coordination, highlighting the quantitative data of La Palma; to show the alternatives and innovative solutions in this aspect for people with dependency; to generate alternatives for social and health care coordination between the different agents and administrations, and to make visible the De-institutionalisation Strategy at na

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Training of caregivers in competencies for person-centred care

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 Location: Online

Today, an estimated 5 million paid caregivers are needed to care for the elderly in Latin America and the Caribbean. At the rate of population ageing in the region, 14 million will be needed by 2050.

How to move towards more training and professionalisation? This will be the main topic to be addressed in a webinar aimed at disseminating the results of research in the field of training for carers in long-term care centres in Colombia, Costa Rica and Uruguay.

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II International Nurses' Day Scientific Conference 2023

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 Location: Gran Canaria

The Scientific Conference of the International Nurses' Day 2023 organised by the Official College of Nursing of Las Palmas (CELP) held its third and final session at the Hotel Santa Catalina, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, analysing social change in health care as the central theme.

Our colleague and co-director of Matia Instituto, Erkuden Aldatz, will be among the speakers invited to talk about experiences in the change of care model, presenting the project "Como en Casa".

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Long-term care at home

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 Location: Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y del Trabajo de la Universidad de Zaragoza

Addressing long-term care at home is a challenging subject to analyse and study due to the possibilities of reformulating the conceptual framework, based on comprehensive models centred on users with ecosystemic approaches adapted to the territory.

It is increasingly important to consider the advances that are being developed in long-term care, in order to respond to the needs and concerns of people who want to remain at home, promoting, maintaining and preserving their autonomy as much as possible.

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Accompanying from the talent. "Keys to adopting a new approach to the person in care".

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Presentation event of SEE ME ("Look at me"), an Erasmus + KA2 project in which a training toolkit has been developed with the aim of contributing to the improvement of care and social inclusion of older people by addressing their social and meaning needs, talents and dreams.

This toolkit has been co-designed in an iterative process with carers, volunteers and the organisations that make up the project consortium.

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The basis for the treatment of the data is the consent of the user and the purpose of the treatment is to answer your question or suggestion. The data will be kept as long as the relationship is maintained and its deletion is not requested and in any case in compliance with the statutory limitation periods that may apply No data will be transferred to third parties, except legal obligation and international transfers of such data are not provided. You can exercise your rights of access, rectification, deletion, portability and limitation or opposition by writing to LA FUNDACIÓN MATÍA, SA, at the address indicated above as well as to complain to the Control Authority (Spanish Agency for Data Protection: www .agpd.es).

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State Deinstitutionalisation Strategy: "For a good life in the community".

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 Location: Madrid

Currently, many of these services for people with greater support needs are provided in large institutions and the aim of the future Strategy is precisely to try to promote services that enable people to live independently and autonomously in their family, social and community environment.

The future Strategy for De-institutionalisation and development of community support services aims to prioritise personalised care in the community.

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Presentation of the project "Just like at home: Towards people-centered service provision.".

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 Location: Lugones (Siero) / Online

This activity takes place within the framework of the "CuidAs week" organised by the Regional Ministry of Social Rights and Welfare of the Principality of Asturias, from 14 to 17 November.

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How to improve our communication with people with dementia on a daily and meaningful level

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The development of care approaches centred on people's wishes and autonomy entails the need for resources and strategies that promote it. At Matia and ACP Gerontology we wanted to contribute to the establishment of good practices applicable either in the home or in social and healthcare centres, with the publication of two new materials that are part of the project "Routes for the Advancement of Person-Centred Care". 

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