Care and Support Networks, are they the same?
Are the concepts of Care and Support Networks comparable? This research aims to distinguish the theoretical and methodological notions of both ideas from their use in different studies. It is proposed that there is an interdependence between both and even more; that care networks are those that are available and immediately perceptible, while support networks are measured in a specific event or period.
Loneliness as a mechanism of association between ageism and mental health
This publication seeks to find a relationship between the discriminatory attitude called ageism and loneliness with the damage that occurs in the mental health of older people
Amanoz Foundation are our new partner
Yesterday at MICARE we signed a new agreement with the Amanoz Foundation. They work with a network of volunteers to ensure the accompaniment of older people. With this signature, both institutions agreed to work together in terms of publicity, spread of informations and also on research development.
Barriers to access the PGU: proposals for improvement from the analysis of the citizenship and institutional gaps analysis from an open government perspective
Teaching self-determination to older adults with intellectual disabilities
MICARE is already working on Chile’s National Care System
On Thursday, April 6, MICARE officially joined the Advisory Committee that will accompany the social dialogues, which together will be a pillar of the most important public policy project on care in our country. “Hablemos de Cuidados” is the name of the process that will bring together academia, social organizations and authorities to obtain the […]
Women with disabilities and maternity in rural settings
Tom Shakespeare, english expert on disability and bioethics, visited Chile with NúcleoDisca
Sir Tom Shakespare is fifty-six years old and has had achondroplasia and a wheelchair
for as long as he can remember. This is part of what has motivated him to study
sociology and specialize in research on disability, bioethics and genetics.
Great visit of Dolors Comas to Chile
The outstanding researcher and promoter of Catalan public policies, Dolors Comas, was until recently in Chile invited by MICARE. In our country, she held multiple meetings with authorities and academics. She was also at the seminar “Care, the elderly and interdependence: political and social challenges” at the Catholic University.
We have a new agreement!
Last Wednesday, March 22nd, we signed a new agreement with Fondo Esperanza, This will open new and better opportunities for us to be able to help caregivers who must also develop an undertaking and turn into entrepreneurs. It will also allow us to reach new places in Chile and thus get closer to understand and learn more about their lives and needs.
We’re back from ICPS Belgium!
Our researchers Marcela Tenorio, Andrés Aparicio and Paulina Arango had an outstanding visit to the International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS) that took place this year in the city of Brussels, Belgium.
Non-invasive technologies for cognitive rehabilitation of mild cognitive impairment in older adults
