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.
Projects
Research
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.
Year: 2022 - Status: In progress
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Year: 2022 to 2024 - Status: In progress
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.
Year: 2022 to 2024 - Status: In progress
Professionals: Verónica Lozada Paz, Elisa Berrios, Paula García, Virginia Oliván, Nerea Etxaniz, Penélope Castejón, Cristina Buiza, Miren Iturburu, Erkuden AldazJavier Quintas, Eli Abad, Marian Hernández, Andrea Santos, Carmen Hernández, Jone Eguren
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
Year: 2022 to 2024 - Status: In progress
Helduak Zabaltzen is an initiative promoted by the Basque Government and Euskofederpen, to facilitate the transformation and adaptation of the model of Social Centres for the Elderly, as well as to accompany them towards digitalisation.
Year: 2022 - Status: Finished
BabeSarea is a research and social experimentation project created to develop and design Day Centre services integrated within a global logic of local ecosystems of long-term care.
Year: 2021 to 2023 - Status: Finished
New technological solutions for the optimisation of indoor air quality and minimisation of airborne transmission of pathogens
Year: 2021 to 2022 - Status: In progress
An initiative of the Adinberri Foundation and the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa, SIA is an open platform for the exchange of information and knowledge on ageing in Gipuzkoa, in the Basque Country and in the societies around us, in its biological, psychological, social, socio-health, physical and
Year: 2021 - Status: In progress
More and more people in Gipuzkoa are deciding to become volunteers and accompany those in need, contributing to their wellbeing.
Year: 2021 - Status: In progress
The Routes of Advancement in Person-Centered Care project is a joint initiative of Matia Fundazioa and ACP Gerontología that arises from the journey made by Matia Fundazioa in the progress towards a person-centered care (ACP).
Year: 2021 to 2023 - Status: In progress
The main objective of this project is to guide training strategies and develop training curricula for care professionals in Costa Rica, Colombia and Uruguay, from a person-centred care approach.