Blog
25 September 2020
The year 2020 will not be easily forgotten. Neither will the Matia Fundazioa Pharmacy Service. No one had taught us how to deal with a pandemic and...
21 August 2020
A few weeks ago, in this same blog, we reflected on a complex and nuanced phenomenon such as "loneliness", raising some questions that led us to...
13 August 2020
I’m writing these words from the Isle of Skye where I arrived yesterday to visit family for the weekend. Every time I come to Skye I have a sense of...
06 August 2020
From its origins, the human being has been shown to have a strong bond with nature and in particular with animals, a relationship that over time has...
30 July 2020
Hello, my name is Juandedios, although people usually call me Juande or Juampi. I am a native of Argentina, and destiny wanted to bring me by family...
09 July 2020
It would be the beginning of this century when, from the Memory Unit of Matia, we wondered what we could do to improve intervention with people who...
17 June 2020
Fernando Fantova, researcher and consultant for Social Services, says that the global pandemic "is proving to be a stress test for all the mechanisms...
02 June 2020
"Age is not the key, and security is not the only thing"
Here is a short extract from a document which brings together a series of reflections...
29 May 2020
It’s time we talked.
No longer can the discussion of the care of people living in long term care facilities be ignored, be sloughed off, for another...
24 May 2020
I came across Robin Hammond’s photographs on Instagram. It was the extraordinary, earthy beauty of the portraits that first...