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Caregiving strategies and unwanted loneliness in rural areas

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 Location: Vitoria-Gasteiz

Nagusilan Araba organizes, on November 7 at the Europa Conference Center, a conference to reflect on unwanted loneliness in rural areas, and the strategies that are being developed and that have emerged from the community level.

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Lifelong care

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 Location: Siero (Asturias)

The Department of Social Rights and Welfare of the Principality of Asturias and the newspaper “El Comercio” organize a meeting in the municipality of Siero to talk about challenges and opportunities of the care and support system in a context of low birth rate and marked aging of the population.

Our colleague Sara Marsilla, researcher at Matia Institute, will participate in one of the tables talking about one of the main challenges, such as the different forms of loneliness present in our society.

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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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International Nurses' Day celebration event

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 Location: Salón de Grados de la Facultad de Medicina y Enfermería de Donostia de la Universidad del País Vasco

Next Friday, May 10th, the University of the Basque Country will celebrate the International Nurses Day with a symbolic recognition to all nurses working in the geriatric and gerontological field.

Our colleagues Karol Machiñena, Maria Dolores Martínez and Jaione Elexpuru will participate in the event.

The event will take place in the Salón de Grados of the Donostia/San Sebastián Section of the Faculty of Medicine and Nursing and will begin at 12:00. It can also be followed in streaming.

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The new longevity

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 Type: Seminar
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 Location: Cap Roig (Girona)

The current transition towards longevity is shaped by a demographic change, with a gain in life expectancy occurring at older ages and accompanied by a series of structural (social, economic) and individual changes that give rise to new experiences of ageing and unprecedented social change.

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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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Care: at the centre of life and shared

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Our colleague, Maider Azurmendi, Director of Home and Community Care at Matia, is taking part in this cycle of conferences, organised by Astigarraga Town Council, speaking on: "The ageing process and new responses to new needs".

The event will take place on 28 November at 18h in the Erribera Cultural Centre. It will be given in Basque.

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Sakanan Gertutik Zaindu

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 Location: Casa de Cultura de Lakuntza

Our colleagues Erkuden Aldaz and Irati Mogollón will be at the conference organised by the community of Sakana "SAKANANAN GERTUTIK ZAINDU".

Erkuden will take part on the 20th at the Experiences of transformation table, speaking in collaboration with the Mayoress of Usurbil about the Ecosystem of Care in the municipality.

Irati Mogollón will participate on the 21st, as the author of the book "Arquitectura de los cuidados", to try to shed some light on what caring towns and regions are like.

All the information on the link.

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32nd edition of the Summer School: Innovating for Social Transformation

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 Type: Course
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 Location: Online

The Department of Equality and Social Sustainability of Barcelona Provincial Council has organised this year's 32nd edition of the Summer School, a space for reflection, exchange and knowledge about local social policies for professionals from municipalities and local authorities in the province of Barcelona.

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Presentation of the Basque Strategy for the Elderly

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 Location: Vitoria-Gasteiz

Meeting organised by the Basque Government on Friday 20 January at the Palacio de Europa (Vitoria-Gasteiz) from 11:00 to 14:00, in a day of presentation of the "Basque Strategy with the elderly" in which, in addition, the driving projects promoted by the same will be presented, among them: Helduak Zabaltzen, Euskadi Lagunkoia and the Longitudinal Study on ageing and care, all three with the participation of Matia Instituto.

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11:00-11:45h Presentation of the Basque Strategy with the elderly.

11:45-12:10h Lunch break

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