Teresa MartÃnez introduced in Andalusia the “person-centered Gerontology care”.
day Lares Andalusia.
Seville, April 2012.- One year more, Andalusia Lares, he organized the training day 2012, this year faced with great enthusiasm your celebration, under the title “The gerontology care person-centered”. It took place on 27 March in Seville, in the Casa Provincial of the daughters of charity (calle Real de la Jara, 2-A).
Addition, there was a round table on quality and a Panel on experiences on active ageing and intergenerational solidarity interventions.
A day of undoubted interest, addressed to all professionals of the centres and care services to the elderly (directors, doctors, nurses, social workers, psychologists, physiotherapists, assistants, personal and occupational therapists services …).
The recognized expert invited to the plenary presentation of the day, is the author of the innovative Gerontology care guide focused on the person, publication that is becoming a reference manual to implement the model in centres and elderly care services.
Its author, in the course of his speech exhibited for the first time in Andalusia, the main contents of the material renewer of labour, lands in practice and which has been thinking to apply in homes, day centres and home help services. Providing conceptual elements and methodological alternatives allowing advance care oriented to the quality of people’s lives and their rights.
They are core values of the model, the respect for the dignity of the individual as being unique, their rights, preferences and the search for personal well-being, even in cases where there is a significant degree of cognitive impairment.
However, the application of these principles in the day to day services and centres, sometimes subject to numerous organizational standards, working conditions and care routines, often stay pending or encounter significant difficulties. This requires awareness and training, as well as develop new professional roles, review some organisational systems and designing interventions consistent with this new look.
The innovative publication has had a great impact in the sector. Universities, foundations, agencies, public and private are conducting training directed by the author, students, executives and professionals in direct care based on its innovative method of implementation. His extraordinary host, noted also by its exponential projection, being recommended by many specialized media, colleges and professional associations, Spain and Latin America, enabling many of them their access and download in digital format.
Teresa MartÃnez, is a renowned psychologist expert in social gerontology, which under his belt combines professional experience in intervention and in the planning of social policies, teaching and consultancy in Spain and Latin America. She is the author of various publications and scientific articles in the field of social gerontology and disability.
Among them, his last work, from the collection of social gerontology of the Spanish society of Geriatrics and Gerontology (SEGG) edited (January 2012) by the Editorial Médica Panamericana. Train memory and intervene in reminiscences ”
