In the last five years, Social Work Caja Madrid has started up 1,256 projects for the attention of people majors and promotion of the healthful aging. The objective is not other that to foment a society of the well-being, that fights by the equality of opportunities and the nondiscrimination because of age, as well as by the total integration of the majors. In this sense, the person in charge of Social Action and Attendance of the organization, Maria Fernanda Ayán, indicates that “we do not have to forget that this important sector of the population is source of an enormous experience, wisdom and common sense del that we are due merit to construct a plural society. The construction of the future of a country happens to serve to us as its knowledge�.

In order to give answer to the needs of the majors and to contribute thus to that the vital activity of the people stays in all the stages, OSCM has open several lines of work, that go from proposing and implanting own social projects, in all the scopes (social, educative, cultural and of environmental commitment) and for all the ages, to do it in collaboration with other expert organizations without spirit of profit. These alliances are canalized through the calls of Aid to Social Projects. “From the organization, we think that still they are necessary policies of empoderamiento and psycho-social and economic protection of the people majors and/or in situation of dependancy. It is much way to cross and the society must smooth it�, declares Ayán.

Also, the director of Social Action and Attendance affirm that the fast aging of the population is “a signal of progress and a challenge for our society, since we must guarantee that the people majors can continue participating in their respective societies like citizens of right plenary session with the due consideration in all the orders: politician, social and economic�. In this way, Social Work Caja Madrid starts up pioneering initiatives that present/display new solutions for the people successfully majors and their families facing a healthful, active aging and, with the purpose of to improve its quality of life. This year, the organization supports 120 projects directed to the promotion of the personal autonomy, from which they benefit more than 100,000 majors.

Voluntary military service

Social work Caja Madrid promotes the active participation and the mutual aid, through the promotion of the voluntary military service of people majors. Of all the programs, Maria Fernanda Ayán emphasizes the one of cultural Volunteers majors, an initiative promoted in collaboration with the Spanish Confederation of Classrooms of Tercera Edad (CEATE) to present our immense artistic and cultural patrimony, that counts, at present, with more than 1,250 volunteers than 500,000 young people and majors in 130 museums, palaces have transmitted their knowledge to more than, cathedrals, churches, etc.

“Another important project is the one of Voluntary military service of majors for majors, in which active people majors support to others in situation of dependancy and/or solitude. This support goes from the support or the domiciliary attention to the residential and hospitable visits. Through this program we have reached in Madrid more than 10,000 people majors, with 800 volunteers�, explains Ayán.


To know how to age. To prevent the dependancy

One is a pioneering program at national level by its novel methodology, based on an emotional training with techniques of coaching, where the word, the reflection and the debate acquire all the protagonism. “The objective is to transmit to the people majors that the oldness is a new stage of the life, that offers manifolds possibilities that there are to be useful�, it shows the person in charge of Social Action and Attendance of OSCM. These courses go to majors that wish to participate actively in their process of aging and are arranged to share vital experiences with other people.

The east newness year is the launching of 15 shorts that show funny daily situations, with practical advice exceeds how to improve their social relations, to confront the lost one of the pair, to control the health, to feed themselves well, to prevent falls, to realize physical exercise, to maintain the mind in form, etc. These videos, complement the materials developed in previous editions: practical notebooks and guide pedagogical.
At present, the program is in its phase of formation, phase through which has happened more than 1,500 majors in near 100 courses developed until the moment in Asturias, Castilla-La Mancha, Extremadura, Galicia and Madrid.


With regard to the Alzheimer

Great part of the preoccupations or fears on the disease of the Alzheimer has their origin in ignorance about how to confront it or what to wait for of the future, since the care of the people who suffer dementia, sometimes, can be sad and estresante for the nearer family and people. In order to support to them in this task, Social Work Caja Madrid publishes With regard to the Alzheimer, a project multimedia so that caretakers, families and society generally know the keys this disease and its impact in the familiar and social surroundings.

With regard to the Alzheimer it offers useful information to know how how to act in the situations originated by this disease, as well as directions of interest. The content is organized and divided in three parts: audio-visual in DVD, interactive in CD-ROM and a guide of support. The units are distributed in associations, residences and centers by day.