Elderly people
27 November 2013
It is already known that starting a hypotensive treatment in the elderly constitutes a risk factor for falls, however the relation that it can have...
15 November 2013
The transformation from medical and care models to people-centred ones will only be possible if the change is perceived by the recipients as useful...
08 November 2013
Diabetes mellitus is a disease with a high prevalence in the general population, especially in geriatric patients due to the changes in pancreatic...
30 September 2013
High blood pressure (BP) is the most prevalent chronic pathology in the geriatric population and has a great influence on the presence of...
23 September 2013
Falls with their severe and frequent consequence of proximal femoral fracture in the elderly population, constitute a major health problem. The...
26 August 2013
The Age-Friendly Cities movement was launched by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2005 at the 18th World Congress of Gerontology in Rio de...
05 July 2013
Scientific Article
Nowadays, when there are about 400 models of psychotherapy, it is difficult to find the right one to apply to the field of...
01 July 2013
The Basque Institute of Statistics (Eustat) projects as a probable scenario a population by 2050 of 554,765 people who will have passed the age of 65...
21 June 2013
The Etxean Ondo Project began at the Lamourous Gerontology Centre two years ago, when planning began for a Coexistence Unit to be set up on one of...
14 June 2013
Over the last two weeks, our colleagues have made two posts on our blog in which they have told us about the application of the Person-Centred Care...