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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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XXI AFAGA Alzheimer's Professional Conference

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 Location: Vigo

Meeting organized by Afaga Alzheimer under the title: “Research, internationalization and innovation” and aimed at professionals in the field of dementia care.

Participating, among others, our colleague Cristina Buiza, researcher at Matia Institute, with the paper: “Project like at home: Generating itineraries of transformation of the current residential centers towards environments for a good community life”.

The meeting is scheduled to be held in the conference room of Afundación in Vigo (R/ Policarpo Sanz 24-26).

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4th International Seminar CI+IRU 2024

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 Location: Donostia - San Sebastián

The CI+IRU Center of Excellence, Center for Research and Innovation in Urban Regeneration, is organizing a new edition of the annual international seminar that serves as a meeting point for agents of excellence in urban regeneration.

 

The international research network is currently made up of more than 30 interregional, national and European agents, including entities from academia, public administration and the private sector.

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53rd Congress of the British Society of Gerontology

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 Type: Congress
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 Location: Newcastle

The Annual Conference of the British Society of Gerontology attracts some 400 delegates from around the world, including academics and others interested in a wide range of issues related to aging. 

This year's event, organized by the Centre for Ageing and Inequalities at Newcastle University, focuses on "New Directions in Ageing and the Life Course".

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6th International Congress on Architecture, Research, Care and Health

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 Type: Congress
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 Location: Espoo (Finlandia)

ARCH24 will bring together up to 200 international professionals in the fields of healthcare design, planning, development, education and research. The event provides a high-level platform to connect the latest scientific and design practices with current knowledge and innovation trends. The conference theme emphasises the value of evidence and seeks to inspire solutions to important societal challenges around the world.

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"Healthy Aging: Transversal Tractor Projects".

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 Location: Vitoria-Gasteiz

The event brought together people from different entities from the healthcare, social-health, scientific, technological, business and administration sectors, who participated in a meeting to identify new Collaborative Transversal Tractor Projects in the field of Healthy Aging, held on Thursday, January 18th, at the Palacio de Europa, in Vitoria-Gasteiz. The conference is related to the Healthy Aging Transversal Tractor Initiative, within the framework of the PCTI Euskadi 2030.

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63rd Congress of the Spanish Society of Geriatrics and Gerontology (SEGG). Healthy ageing: a shared challenge

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 Location: Pamplona

Pamplona will bring together the best specialists in geriatrics and social and biological gerontology, both national and international, to talk about what matters to everyone: how to age better and how we can all work together to achieve it.

Congress website

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Walking the talk for dementia Symposium

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 Location: Santiago de Compostela

On 5 and 6 May we will meet in the Auditorium of the Hotel San Francisco in Santiago de Compostela to talk about how we live, work and research dementia today, providing ideas for a fairer and more inclusive future for all.

Among the speakers, our colleague and researcher at Matia Institute, Sara Marsillas, will participate in a panel on non-pharmacological interventions, sharing with the audience our experience in bringing the world of culture and art closer to people with dementia from the DCUM project.

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Care matters. Gender impact on carers of elderly and dependent people in times of Covid-19.

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 Location: Bizkaia Aretoa, Sala Arriaga.

The aim of the conference is to present the results of the research project "CUMADE. Care matters. Gender impact on carers of the elderly and dependents in times of Covid-19" carried out between June 2020 and June 2021. The aim of the research is to reveal the social dynamics that have had an impact on the care of elderly and dependent people, in order to give visibility to the difficulties that carers have had to face the health crisis, as well as the strategies to face it from the point of view of creativity, empowerment and solidarity.

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The challenges of Alzheimer and dementias

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 Location: Madrid

To call for a political commitment to make Alzheimer's a strategic priority in the scientific, health and care fields, and to prioritise research as the only way to beat the disease, we are organising, together with the Spanish Neurology Society (SEN), the Spanish Alzheimer's Confederation (CEAFA), the Matia Foundation and HelpAge, the event "The challenges of Alzheimer's and dementias" in the Congress of Deputies this coming Monday, 13 September, at 10 am, in the Ernest Lluch Room.

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