Sustraiak is a project by Matia aimed at transforming the care model towards Person-Centred Care (PCC), ensuring that each individual can make decisions about their life and support based on their values, wishes, and needs.
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The Matia Gerontological Institute is the unit of Matia Fundazioa dedicated to creating applicable knowledge and its dissemination in society (R+D+i). A unique centre in the Basque Country, with 10 years of experience.
The objective of this Institute is to collaborate in the definition of new models of prevention, care and health, as well as in providing support during the changes associated with ageing and the development of business projects that add value and quality to ageing, creating new solutions based on the knowledge of each of the members of the foundation.

In Azpeitia, a process was launched in 2024 to move towards a local care ecosystem, with the aim of ensuring that everyone living in the municipality has access to continuous and consistent care pathways, making it easier for everyone to carry out their life plans.
Within the framework of the Lugaritz supported housing, Matia has launched the Lugaritz Living Lab project.
The care ecosystem of Orio was born with the aim of transforming the reality of care systems in the town of Orio in a participatory and feminist way. For this, a first year of participatory process is formulated with the starting signal offered in Zaintzak Plazara (March 17).
We are proud to be part of PAAR-Net: Participatory Approaches with Older Adults, an international research network supported by COST Action (CA22167) and coordinated by Jagiellonian University in Kraków.

Sexuality is a fundamental part of our lives. Being able to live our sexuality freely, as well as being a right and a key aspect of health, is also the source of many of our life's wellbeing and pleasures.
The Deba care ecosystem was born to transform the reality of the care systems in the town of Deba in a participatory and diverse way.
This project is a proposal for innovation that through training, accompaniment and research, aims to help older people living in IASS residences to develop their life project in spaces that ensure their dignity and rights, maintaining the meaning of their day to day life as they have done in thei
Population ageing is a great social achievement that poses challenges to ensure the welfare of this population in conditions of equality and sustainability, even more so after the COVID-19 crisis that has had such an impact on the elderly.

Care ecosystems are based on the development of local experiences that help to create more personalised, flexible and community-based care models, based on social innovation, promoting care at home and improving synergies between the social and health systems.
