“” The Basque Government reissued the book: ’The gerontology care person-centered’.
a guide for institutional leaders, businessmen of the sector, associations, centres professionals and care services to older people and citizens in general.
Spain, 2011-December Given the extraordinary reception and countless requests, the Department of employment and Social Affairs of the Basque Government has had to re-edit a 2nd Edition of the publication of the recognized expert in social gerontology, Teresa MartÃnez RodrÃguez psychologist: “LA care GERONTOLOGICA CENTERED on the person”: Guide to professional intervention in schools and care services to older persons in situations of fragility or unit ”.
Opt for a model of attention focused on the person – bet reliably of the Basque Government, entails give a core role in the self-determination of the people users. From this model, the center of attention, and therefore the Organization and assistance processes, is each person and their life projects.
The respect for the dignity of the individual as being unique, their rights, preferences and the search for personal well-being are essential in the Eastern values model of care, even in cases where there is a significant degree of cognitive impairment. However, the implementation of these principles in the day to day services and centres, sometimes subject to numerous organizational standards, working conditions and healthcare routines, often remain pending or encounter significant difficulties. This requires awareness-raising and training, as well as develop new professional roles, review some organisational systems and designing interventions in accordance with this new look.
This is the reason that led to the Basque Government in collaboration with the MatÃa group to edit the Guide: the need to conceptualize this model as well as provide the methodological basis allowing its application in welfare centres and care services to older persons in situations of fragility or unit.
Its author, Teresa MartÃnez RodrÃguez, is a recognized expert in social gerontology that’s combines professional experience in intervention and in the planning of social policies, teaching and authoring various publications related to applied Gerontology.
This guide sets out five important issues for the development of this model in elderly care services and facilities: a) the personalized attention from the promotion of self-determination and independence, b) intimate, private and confidentiality; (c) Likewise, the everyday, the significant; ((d) families and and) the organizational and professional. For each of these issues are presented both the ideas and key values and strategies of intervention and instruments to implement them. Also covers the main risks arising from the routine of the day to day, which can lead to drifts of the model.
Notably, the pedagogical and applied nature of this document. A novel and useful tool that will enable professionals, managers and leaders in the sector public health (homes, day centres, home support services), progress in the implementation of a care model focused on people in everyday contexts of intervention.
This document since it saw the light its 1st Edition is being recommended by different media and by numerous specialized portals and colleges and professional associations Spain and Latin America, enabling many of them access and download in digital format.
