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Elderly people council of Aragon
Published on 12 April 2019
Spain
Andalucía
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About this good practice
Among its purposes are:
Stimulate the active participation of the elderly as a group with a specific problem.
Defend the interests of the elderly in the public authorities.
Promote the Associationism of the third age in Aragon.
COAPEMA groups more than 230 organizations in the three provinces of the Aragon and more than 60 organizations located outside of Aragon (Latin America and Europe)
"Abandoning the loneliness" is part of the strategy of care for the elderly that is being developed by the Government of Aragon with activities to combat loneliness. Their actives in the creation of the strategy and advisor the process.
In addition, intervention groups (volunteers) will be created for the elderly in solitude, it will develop a study on the loneliness of the elderly and it will promote the extension of the program to other centres and associations.
Traveling Classrooms. Rural Routes is a project of Fundación Ibercaja and (COAPEMA) to bring digital technology to the elderly in the rural areas of Aragon. The program consists of 30 conferences that are taught in an itinerant way. All conferences will be broadcast live on the Internet.
OBJECTIVES
Help elderly people in rural areas to see the importance of using digital technologies and how they can improve their quality of life
Delay dependency states.
Improve the competence of their main caregivers.
Expand your knowledge
Promote personal relationships.
Act in states of solitude.
Promote the activity
Feel valuable
Stimulate the active participation of the elderly as a group with a specific problem.
Defend the interests of the elderly in the public authorities.
Promote the Associationism of the third age in Aragon.
COAPEMA groups more than 230 organizations in the three provinces of the Aragon and more than 60 organizations located outside of Aragon (Latin America and Europe)
"Abandoning the loneliness" is part of the strategy of care for the elderly that is being developed by the Government of Aragon with activities to combat loneliness. Their actives in the creation of the strategy and advisor the process.
In addition, intervention groups (volunteers) will be created for the elderly in solitude, it will develop a study on the loneliness of the elderly and it will promote the extension of the program to other centres and associations.
Traveling Classrooms. Rural Routes is a project of Fundación Ibercaja and (COAPEMA) to bring digital technology to the elderly in the rural areas of Aragon. The program consists of 30 conferences that are taught in an itinerant way. All conferences will be broadcast live on the Internet.
OBJECTIVES
Help elderly people in rural areas to see the importance of using digital technologies and how they can improve their quality of life
Delay dependency states.
Improve the competence of their main caregivers.
Expand your knowledge
Promote personal relationships.
Act in states of solitude.
Promote the activity
Feel valuable
Resources needed
They have a big number of volunteers as they are retired people, in terms of budget they have in 2019 357.262€, From the Aragonese institute of Social Services 112.000€ and the rest form private entities and around 3.000€ from tha province of Teruel
3 workers, voluntaries 500.
3 workers, voluntaries 500.
Evidence of success
They have 240 entities which take part in the council and belong to Aragon, in terms of member they are 260.000 associates. In Teruel province they have made activities in 30 municipalities, in addition each activity or training is forecast in streaming so could be followed by anybody with an internet connection in this moment of after words.
Some of these seminars, specially one about avoiding the loneliness is used by social workers as a tool.
They have done agreements with private entities
Some of these seminars, specially one about avoiding the loneliness is used by social workers as a tool.
They have done agreements with private entities
Potential for learning or transfer
Taking into account the reality of the entity, it is include in the interest of the region as they are created by a public law, they promote the active elderly that is the priority of the Government of Aragon. COAPEMA is active in terms of networking and raise awareness about the elderly people needs.
They prepare tailor made actions attending their level of knowledge and skills which can be easily transfer to other realities.
They made a big effort in involving the private entities to raise awareness about the elderly people needs.
They prepare tailor made actions attending their level of knowledge and skills which can be easily transfer to other realities.
They made a big effort in involving the private entities to raise awareness about the elderly people needs.
Further information
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Good practice owner
You can contact the good practice owner below for more detailed information.
Organisation
COAPEMA
Spain
Andalucía
Contact
Project manager