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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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Dimensions of loneliness during aging: empirical evidence for public policy making.

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 Location: Madrid

This event is part of the activities of the Apoyo+65 project, an initiative of the Complutense University of Madrid whose objective is to delve into the meaning of social support, loneliness, and the well-being of the elderly in the social scenario resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, which is likely to last over time. 

With the interest of deepening in aspects related to the different experiences of loneliness and social support, a round table with experts who will address the following topics is organized:

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Technical Seminar of the Directorate General for the Elderly 2023 'Integral Person-Centred Care: we continue to move forward'.

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 Location: Centro Cultural Eduardo Úrculo (Madrid)

After establishing a general "theoretical" framework, the components linked to older people and professionals, the physical environment and organisations will be presented at different tables.

Ethical aspects and the growing trend towards deinstitutionalisation and the promotion of ageing at home, a fundamental pillar of municipal services for the elderly, will also be addressed. Knowing that the experience in the model is greater in the world of centres and especially in residential centres, it is essential to address the model also at home.

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IX International Congress on Dependence and Quality of Life "Social and health integration: a reality check".

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 Location: Barcelona / Online

This event focuses on the need to work, following the experience of the COVID, on the urgent development of real socio-health services in the framework of long-term care, demanding them in both institutional and home settings; as well as on the need to have sufficient and appropriate professionals from the social and health sectors, working as a team, in an integrated manner, to tackle, with guarantees and quality, the comorbidity that affects the elderly and that has repercussions on their health and on the rest of their lives.

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XXXIII Annual International Congress of Gerontology and Geriatrics: Loneliness and social isolation. New challenges and resources

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 Location: Museo Verbum - Vigo

Although it is difficult to measure social isolation and loneliness accurately, there is strong evidence that many adults aged 50 and older are socially isolated or lonely in ways that put their health at risk. Older people are at greater risk of loneliness and social isolation because they are more likely to face factors such as living alone, losing family or friends, chronic illness and hearing loss.

This congress of the Sociedade Galega de Xerontoloxía e Xeriatría will reflect on this complex phenomenon with very diverse expressions.

Congress website

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Older people and unwanted loneliness

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 Location: Errenteria

In this conference, Sara Marsillas, researcher at Matia Institute, will analyse the diversity of experiences of loneliness experienced by the elderly, as well as the keys that can help to build a healthy relationship with this feeling. 

The event is organised by Duintasuna Elkartea, the Association of Retired and Pensioners of Gipuzkoa, for the afternoon of 5 October in the Sala Reina in Errenteria. Limited capacity.

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Loneliness: the great challenge of the 21st century

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 Location: Málaga

The importance of social relationships has been extensively studied for decades, highlighting their relevance to people's physical and mental health. Loneliness is understood as a painful experience experienced in the absence of social relationships, feelings of belonging or due to a sense of isolation. This phenomenon arises as a result of a perceived discrepancy between social needs and their availability, i.e. it is an emotional state that reflects the subjective experience of the socially isolated.

Course web page

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Course of the specific and on-demand training programme: Older Adults and Quality of Life. Unwanted loneliness in older adults

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 Location: Santiago de Compostela

The course, aimed at both professionals and students of the USC, "Elderly and Quality of Life: unwanted loneliness in older adults", is part of the specific training studies and on demand organised by the Centre of Own Studies of the USC and is organised by the Red Cross Chair. These studies are oriented to continuous training, aimed at specific groups, in this case, with knowledge, experience and interest in gerontological intervention.

Course fact sheet

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Conference on Loneliness and the Elderly - Cycle of Social Challenges in the Balearic Islands

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This event, part of the cycle of social challenges in the Balearic Islands organised by Club Diario de Mallorca and the "la Caixa" Foundation, will consist of a conference focused on giving visibility to the problem of loneliness, how it affects the elderly, how to deal with this reality and what actions are being implemented in the Balearic Islands to accompany people.

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Presentation "Solitude as we age" by Mayte Sancho, psychologist and expert in social gerontology and planning.

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