Old age
12 December 2024
When we care for and accompany lives, we often have doubts about how to act in certain situations. We have been taught to take care of people's...
11 December 2019
Some things are learned little by little, throughout life. Without realising it. What attracts us to people, what we dislike, what we choose or...
29 April 2019
Coinciding with the celebration, this 29th April, of the European Day of Intergenerational Solidarity, in this entry we briefly analyse the twenty-...
19 July 2018
Last week two of the Matia Institute's researchers, Elena del Barrio and Sara Marsillas, travelled to the English city of Manchester to participate...
14 June 2018
As the United Nations points out, "the abuse of older persons is a global social problem affecting the health and human rights of millions of older...
08 August 2016
The aging process causes oxidation and dehydration in our body and also a series of changes.
Increase in fatty adipose tissue.
Reduction of the...
26 October 2015
On 18/09/2015 our colleagues from Matia Instituto Gerontológico. Elena del Barrio (Researcher) and Mayte Sancho (Scientific Director), presented the...
14 October 2015
In figures, the flu causes around 3,000 deaths and the loss of 60,000,000 working hours annually. It also causes 17.4% of temporary disabilities,...