Blog
05 November 2019
Caring is very integrated and standardised in our society. Most people have cared, are caring or will one day care. This idea is so widespread that...
11 October 2019
THANK YOU, to all of you, PEOPLE. Yes, PERSONS, in capital letters. No nurses, no doctors, no psychologists, no assistants. Humanity in its pure...
08 October 2019
I'm Xabier Madina, I'm not going to introduce myself by listing the things I can't do, nor the medical diagnoses that have been assigned to me...
21 September 2019
I recently read in "The New Yorker" an interesting article entitled "The Comforting Fictions of Dementia Care", which I recommend reading. Its author...
14 August 2019
Sleep disorders and dementia
People spend a third of their lives sleeping, with sleep having a physical and cognitive repair function. As the years...
26 June 2019
Heat, especially associated with humidity, further increases the risk of mortality, and this is because when perspiration systems act more than the...
10 June 2019
The use of medicines in the elderly poses many problems due to the physiological changes that occur in our bodies during the ageing process and the...
12 May 2019
A few months ago, the Spanish Society of Geriatric and Gerontological Nursing (SEEGG) invited us to form part of a technical team in which we could...
29 April 2019
Coinciding with the celebration, this 29th April, of the European Day of Intergenerational Solidarity, in this entry we briefly analyse the twenty-...
09 April 2019
"If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water" or so the American anthropologist and poet Loran Eiseley argued. This writer, a nature...