Matia Fundazioa

We recently returned from an interesting trip that has taken us to the Republic of Uruguay. Throughout the second half of 2018 we had the opportunity to collaborate with the National Care System (SNC) and the Ministry of Social Development (MIDES) of that country, developing a project that consisted in the elaboration of an international review on the different models of quality management in dependency care services.

In view of the recently published news of the mistreatment suffered by two elderly women in a nursing home in Hortaleza, Madrid, the undersigned organizations express our strongest condemnation of such despicable acts.

According to UN data, between 4% and 6% of elderly people in the world have suffered some form of abuse and mistreatment. In Spain, according to some studies, the figures are quite similar. Only a minority, less than 10%, report any of these situations.

Narritadura, nahasmena, beldurra, negarra, aurpegi-adierazpenaren aldaketak, hasperenak, intziriak, oihuak, harreman pertsonaletako asaldurak eta jarduera-ereduak edo jateko gogorik eza dira alzheimerra duen pertsona bat mina sentitzen ari dela adierazten duten zantzuetako batzuk. Izan ere, patologia horren egoera aurreratuan dauden pertsonetan, dementzia ezarrita dagoenean, ondoeza hitzez adierazteko gaitasuna murriztu egiten da, eta zaila da haien portaera asaldatuaren kausa hautematea.

The Minister of Employment and Social Policies of the Basque Government, Beatriz Artolazabal, said today that the "Matia Foundation is an excellent model for promoting the capabilities of the elderly".

After a failed attempt, since the weather was not with us, we organize again a solidarity market with Emaus Social Foundation.

From Matia Fundazioa, we are working intensively on a model of care focused on the people who come to our centers, adapting the entire organization to them, to their preferences and needs, to their families and friends to integrate them into our daily life. Our aim is that they can live "as if they were at home".

Last week we visited us from Red Solidaria Bankia. 

They thanked us and recognized us for the work of the Matia Fundazioa for the development of a music therapy program to encourage creativity and musical composition of the elderly.

Thanks to the contribution of the San Sebastian Business Network we have been able to carry out this project.

Last week we visited us from Red Solidaria Bankia. 

They thanked us and recognized us for the work of the Matia Fundazioa for the development of a music therapy program to encourage creativity and musical composition of the elderly.

Thanks to the contribution of the San Sebastian Business Network we have been able to carry out this project.

(Donostia-San Sebastian, April 14).  Matia Fundazioa has been nominated in five categories of the Pilares Foundation Awards for Good Practices related to the AICP" (Model of Integral and Person-Centered Care): Services or programs of care or intervention, Environmental and architectural design and actions, Support products and ICT, Organizational and/or methodological innovations and Research, evaluation and training programs.

Matia Fundazioa has joined the initiative "Solidarity with Alzheimer's" promoted by CEAFA (Spanish Confederation of Associations of Relatives of people with Alzheimer's and other dementias) as a solidarity entity.

Within the Health and Care Space, the cycle of Talks-Colloquium organized by the COEGI open to the public and also to all members, we have scheduled a new conference to be held on March 5, Thursday, from 18.00 hours at the headquarters of the College.