Execution period:

2021-2022

Summary:

Entremayores is a FIM programme co-financed by ‘La Caixa’ Foundation whose goals are to promote and improve the personal autonomy and active ageing of people +65 years old, preferably women, who have been negatively impacted in these aspects because of the pandemic.

The project is, above all, an innovative approach from the Occupational Therapy point of view, as it seeks:

– Promoting an active ageing
– Improving well-being and quality of life
– Promoting personal autonomy
– Promoting social relations

A year and a half after the onset of this global phenomenon, many people have been hit by adverse event that have undermined their autonomy, independence, and functional, cognitive and affective processes. The State of Alarm and the imposed lockdown increased the cases of unwanted loneliness, with all that this entails.

The Occupational Therapy approach is the innovative focus given that it seeks to generate spaces for dialogue and moments of accompaniment, support, and care, with the aim that people following the programme can recover and even improve their routines and daily activities present in their pre-lockdown life, favouring the independence of these users from a professional intervention approached as therapy, from the value of occupation and the sense of human value.

The programme includes individual interventions at home and group interventions in Espacio EntreMujeres. These interventions are designed, programmed, executed and evaluated by our occupational therapist, Piluca. The allocation and distribution of users in these interventions, as well as the relevance or not of carrying out any of these sessions, follows professional criteria and includes activities to rehabilitate daily life, physical health, improving mobility, memory training, attention, concentration, social relations, the use of new technologies and/or leisure and free time activities. All of this is essential for good health and, consequently, to improve the quality of life.

The project also includes sessions of Social and Therapeutic Gardening (JST) with the aim of promoting the physical and mental wellbeing that plants and nature provide in people, adding a therapeutic and rehabilitative value with personalised actions.

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