This is an action-research project based on participatory methodologies, through which it is intended to help each person living in an IASS residence to develop a quality life, a chosen life, without leaving the community to which they belong and with the support and care they need.
Penélope Castejón
Degree in Sociology from the Complutense University of Madrid (2004), Specialist in Applied Social Research and Data Analysis from the CIS (2006) and Expert in Management and Planning of Gerontological Resources from the Complutense University of Madrid (2005).
Professionally involved in the area of older people since 2004, she has been part of the technical team of Portal Mayores (IMSERSO-CSIC), has worked at the Centre for Human and Social Sciences of the CSIC and has been the technical director of Fundación Pilares for the personal autonomy (2011-2019). Throughout her professional career she has coordinated several training and consultancy projects on Person-Centred Care and has participated in several researches and publications on gerontology and disability.
She currently works at Fundación Matia Instituto developing projects related to active aging, long term cares, and participating both in accompanying on change processes and in training actions.
Projects
This project aims to generate an itinerary for the transformation of residential centers towards Person-Centered Care.
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
At the end of 2019, the 'Dementia in Cultural Mediation' project was launched in Odense (Denmark), an initiative within the framework of the European Erasmus + programme, which seeks to gather information about the different artistic and cultural activities involving people with dementia in four
Investigación colaborativa
Propuesta de análisis tentativo de la influencia de la edad en relación con determinadas suposiciones o consecuencias asociadas con la crisis del coronavirus.
Publications
Participation in forums
Webinars
Social exclusion is receiving increasing attention in the field of gerontology. This interest comes from a combination of the patterns of demographic aging, current social and economic instability, and the susceptibility of these age cohorts to growing inequalities.