The care of the elderly, the focus of a day at the Granada Science Park
Fraternidad-Muprespa participated last Tuesday, October 1, in a technical conference held in the Prevention Culture Pavilion of the Granada Science Park, with the title "Protect and protect yourself. When technology and ideas contribute", organized by the AXA Foundation and the University of Granada, and held on the occasion of the International Day of Older Persons.
The Conference was attended by personnel from different fields involved in the care of the elderly and national and international students of the Master of Gerontology at the University of Granada.
Luis Alcala, director of the Science Park, accompanied by Fernando Lazuen, director of the Granada Occupational Risk Prevention Center, welcomed the attendees, highlighting the participants, “whose main mission is to take care of people.”
Juan Antonio Maldonado, professor in the Department of Labor Law at the University of Granada and coordinator of the Master of Gerontology at the same center, took the floor next, giving a few brief touches on the work carried out by his students, also highlighting the importance of moving the classroom to the Prevention Culture Pavilion, addressing such important topics as the risks derived from working with older people.
He also gave a demonstration to the attendees of what is known as “empathic training”, placing an assistant in a simulator suit of the physical handicaps that the elderly to care for may suffer from: loss of vision, hearing loss, mobility limitations, stiffness in extremities, Parkinson's, etc.
Subsequently,Antonio José Millán, director of the Risk Prevention Chair of the Axa Foundation, gave a guided tour of the exhibition “I+P Innovating in Prevention”, located in said Science Park, in whose production and curation Fraternidad-Muprespa participates.
The Provincial director of Fraternidad-Muprespa in Granada,Andres Ruiz, then introduced the next speaker,Alfonso Gomez Manzanares, Territorial Medical Coordinator of the Mutua, who offered a didactic and entertaining presentation on the possible injuries that people who work with the elderly can suffer, emphasizing the musculoskeletal risks, the attacks that caregivers can suffer and 'in-tinere' accidents. From all these sections he gave guidelines for prevention. Subsequently, there was an enriching discussion between participants and the speaker.
