Blog
09 July 2020
It would be the beginning of this century when, from the Memory Unit of Matia, we wondered what we could do to improve intervention with people who...
17 June 2020
Fernando Fantova, researcher and consultant for Social Services, says that the global pandemic "is proving to be a stress test for all the mechanisms...
02 June 2020
"Age is not the key, and security is not the only thing"
Here is a short extract from a document which brings together a series of reflections...
29 May 2020
It’s time we talked.
No longer can the discussion of the care of people living in long term care facilities be ignored, be sloughed off, for another...
24 May 2020
I came across Robin Hammond’s photographs on Instagram. It was the extraordinary, earthy beauty of the portraits that first...
19 May 2020
Loneliness is one of the great current issues, both from an academic and a social point of view. We are talking about a phenomenon that, in recent...
12 May 2020
My name is Jaione, I am a geriatric nurse specialist at Matia Fundazioa. I have been accompanying the elderly in their various health issues for...
07 May 2020
The importance of Architectural Design as an alternative to Medicalization.
These days we all have experienced what it is like to live indoors,...
27 April 2020
As the days go by, the threat baptized by the WHO as "Covid-19" has taken on dimensions that we would have found difficult to imagine, especially...
23 April 2020
Those of you who know our centres, or "houses" as we prefer to call them, know that we have a habit of having regular and close contact with families...