Igurco provide 8 free training talks for families of older employees in Bilbao.

-The first Conference will be held this Thursday, October 29, under the title health monitoring in the home of the dependent elderly ” and will be provided by the medical Iñaki Artaza geriatrics. The talk will be held in 13-18: 00 h. Gran Vía,

-other topics to be discussed will include stimulation of memory, communication with the older person with cognitive impairment, techniques of coping with stress, planning care, nutrition, mobilization of older people and first aid at home, among others.

– talks will take place between October 2009 and may 2010 and will be taught by medical geriatricians, psychologists, psychopedagogues, nurses, physiotherapists, and other professional sociosanitarios.

-meetings are aimed both at carers as relatives of older dependents.

– in the first edition of this programabout 500 people from across Bizkaia trained health by experts.

Bilbao, October 2009.- After a first edition in which nearly 500 people from across Bizkaia trained health given by expert professionals, sociosanitario Igurco group has announced the implementation of its second training program for families of dependent elderly people, to be held in Bilbao, from October 2009 to May 2010with a total of 8 conferences scheduled.

It is an initiative in which various professionals (medical geriatricians, psychologists, psychopedagogues, nurses, physiotherapists and even lawyers) expose in a didactic way relatives of age dependent and carers different topics of interest to the care of older persons. Attendance at the Conference is completely free, being open to the public in general. Both the dates and hours of delivery of the conferences will be knowing gradually, as the development of the program.

Conference

The first Conference of the second edition of the program will be taught by Iñaki Artaza, medical-geriatrics and director of the centro sociosanitario Igurco Orue, Amorebieta-Etxano. Artaza, who was the President of the Scientific Committee of the last Congress of the Spanish society of Geriatrics and Gerontology, will address as a theme of his speech the health monitoring in the home of the dependent elderly ”. The event will take place at # 13 on the Gran Vía Bilbao, from 18: 00 to 20: 00 hours, with free admission.

As explained by Manuel Castro, operations director, Igurco, among the other issues provided for in the framework of this programme are memory stimulation, communication with the older person with cognitive impairment and a full review of the most important techniques of coping with stress ”.

Castro has also listed other items, such as the planning of care of the person in charge of the largest, the adaptation of the home to the special characteristics and security needs of the most dependent, this collective nutritional requirements, and correct mobilization of older persons in order to avoid injury to the mobilized people and the postural changes where made and location ”.

Another of the issues especially highlighted in the training programme II for relatives of people elderly dependent of Igurco is a specific talk about first aid at home, a knowledge that can be of vital importance to deal with an unexpected home health emergency with an adequate basis ”.

The programme closes with a monographic Conference that will focus on the legal protection for dependent older persons, with particular emphasis on two key aspects: incapacitation and guardianship ” for this reason, this talk will be given by a recognized expert on these legal issues professional.