senior citizens

The field of democratic memory has scarcely been explored as a specific area of professional intervention within the disciplines of social work and social education. Unlike other countries, Spain’s sole Democratic Memory Law dates back only to 2022, despite almost half a century having passed since the end of the dictatorship. One direct consequence of this persistent lack of recognition, justice and reparations for the victims is that it has denied families the opportunity to mourn, with trauma being passed down generationally to the present day.

The Family Group Conference (FGC) is a model of family intervention originating from the Maori of New Zealand. During the 1980s it expanded to encompass other countries. The goal is to lend prominence to families so that they themselves and their network can make decisions to address their concerns.

Since 2017, Osona Acció Social has been promoting a pioneering experience in Catalonia with the FGC, training 50 professionals. This has given rise to a steering group that engaged in 14 attempts to implement the FGC between 2017 and 2021.

This article addresses the role assigned to ageing in relation to the social system via three themes: the organisation of work, family relationships and the overvaluation of youth.

This paper strives to place in context the circumstances of the elderly and elderly people with Alzheimer's, while also setting out the general characteristics they bear and detailing various research projects that seek to improve the wellbeing of these elderly persons. A review is conducted which reveals how technology can favour mood in old age, introducing different lines of research and innovative social projects, emphasising social intervention through artificial intelligence.

Support and individual guidance are basic tools when it comes to bringing about changes and enhancing personal and family progress in coping with care for relatives with dementia. This is because these components make it possible to bring about an impact on day-to-day aspects, to provide guidance in natural contexts and to offer support for carers in the process, helping to gain an acquaintance of said care process while generating the changes of perspective needed to live with the disease.

This study seeks to examine the level of knowledge concerning the advance directive document (ADD) that is held by the workers and residents of a care home, along with their attitudes towards it. To do this, a theoretical approach to concepts related to the ADD has been put forward. These concepts are: prevalence, use, knowledge and attitude in relation to the document on the part of care staff and the role of social work in this respect.

Female family workers as professionals are broadly exposed to the emotional effects stemming from bonds of care. They work within the intimate setting of families in contexts where placing boundaries on their duty is by no means simple, and they do this without assistance. They benefit from scarce protection factors and the legitimisation of their knowledge is light years away from receiving public acknowledgment. Their self-perception of their task is conditioned by this. Nevertheless, they are professionals who hardly benefit from having access to supervisory-based settings.

This article contributes to the reflection on state policies from their twofold perspective as a facilitator of citizens’ rights and, at the same time, a breeding ground for social inequalities, taking the National Pension Inclusion Plan for the Elderly (2005), implemented in Argentina, as a point of reference and an empirical tension for the purposes of considering these state actions.

In the Western world, new phenomena are developing, such as the aging of the population, which leads to growing concern on the part of social workers who deem this to be a multifactorial problem. The hospitalization of elderly patients in Western countries has become a growing phenomenon in recent years.