The La Caixa Basis granted the JUNTS mission: Program d'Ajuda entre Iguas of the Chair of Growing older and High quality of Lifetime of TecnoCampus an financial subsidy to hold out its proposal to forestall loneliness among the many aged within the Maresme area .
The La Caixa Basis granted the JUNTS mission: Program d'Ajuda entre Iguas of the Chair of Growing older and High quality of Lifetime of TecnoCampus an financial subsidy to hold out its proposal to forestall loneliness among the many aged within the Maresme area . The supply of mentioned endowment is carried out throughout the framework of the 2022 name for the Help Program for Social Initiative Initiatives of Obra Social La Caixa.
“For us it's a nice satisfaction that the mission has been acknowledged. It's not the primary time that we've got offered our proposals to the entity, beforehand we offered social switch packages that have been financed for us”, explains Dr. Esther Cabrera, director of the Chair of Growing older and High quality of Life.
The subsidy, which is aimed toward selling the switch of data within the area of well being by selling personalised actions and workshops, is endowed with a worth of €20,410 and is included within the scope of motion of the aged and associated challenges of getting old.
“Our goal is to provide the instruments to the aged in order that they can assist and accompany older people who find themselves in a state of affairs of undesirable loneliness”, explains Dr. Cabrera, promoter of the mission.
The JUNTS program, which has the collaboration of the Federació d'Associacions de Gent Gran de Catalunya (FATEC) and the Argentona, Pineda de Mar, Calella and Mataró Metropolis Councils, has emerged with the target that individuals over 65 years previous, who're empowered and with a very good high quality of life, can act as mentors for essentially the most fragile aged and vulnerable to loneliness via a peer-learning methodology.
“This proposal arose to resolve the undesirable isolation of aged individuals within the cities of Argentona, Mataró, Pineda de Mar and Calella. All of them from the Maresme area”, says Dr. Cabrera. And he or she provides: "The Chair is engaged on analysis tasks that present the excessive prevalence of loneliness among the many aged, particularly amongst ladies, who're those who're widowed earlier than."
The mission seeks to create a community of equals amongst individuals over 65 years of age within the Maresme area in order that they detect individuals in a state of affairs of loneliness and might forestall social issues which will have an effect on bodily and psychological well being.
To develop this assist community, greater than 50 volunteers over the age of 65 will likely be educated in emotional assist content material, social assist and digital abilities that permit them to be mentors and be empowered of their atmosphere to assist others.
“In the end, what JUNTS is in search of is that the aged inhabitants that's vulnerable to isolation or involuntary loneliness has a neighborhood instrument to show to in the event that they want it and that they will assist themselves to face issues of the daily”, factors out the promoter of this system.
The proposal of the Chair of Growing older and High quality of Life understands the getting old course of from a social viewpoint and never solely as a well being challenge linked to the attitude of progressive lack of well being and bodily deterioration.
“We should make investments extra efforts and sources in serving to the aged by creating neighborhood assist networks that permit them to age with the best high quality of life”, affirms Dr. Esther Cabrera.
Within the 12 months 2022, and based on information from the Increased Council for Scientific Analysis (CSIC), 19.65% of the Spanish inhabitants was or had exceeded 65 years of age. Likewise, in 2020, the Nationwide Institute of Statistics (INE) indicated that the Spanish inhabitants of that age group was round 21%. Each information appear to point that we face an getting old society.
“At present, the options we've got are inadequate; we should handle the getting old of a giant a part of the inhabitants. It's needed to start out proposing new options and cease pondering that the household is the one useful resource for caring for the aged”, says the director of the Chair for Growing older and High quality of Life.
“The way forward for society requires avoiding ageism and taking older individuals under consideration, we have to be conscious that we're all going to develop previous and we need to accomplish that with the very best quality of life potential. We should as soon as once more worth the aged and promote extra caring communities”, concludes Dr. Esther Cabrera, promoter of the JUNTS mission.
Post a Comment