7th Annual Symposium on Care for the Elderly

Program

THURSDAY 18TH OCTOBER
- 16:00
  - DISTRIBUTION OF DOCUMENTATION
- 16:15
  - OPENING CEREMONY
- 16:45-18:15
  - INTERNATIONAL ROUND TABLE: Ageing, perspectives in Europe
    Moderator: Iñaki Artaza Artabe. Geriatrician. President of Zahartzaroa.
    - 1. Strategies to address the challenge of aging in Europe. Inés García Sánchez. CEO SANCO. Unit of Innovation for Health & Consumers.
    - 2. Vision of the sustainability of dependency care and attention systems in Europe. Pending confirmation of speaker.
- 18:15-18:45
  - COFFEE BREAK
- 18:45-20:00
  - DEBATE: The challenge of care in aging: Different views.
    Moderator: Manuel Castro Arce. Director of Operations, Igurco Healthcare Services
    - 1. Dependence, from the individual situation to its repercussion on social policy. Fernando Fantova Azcoaga. Director of Etorbizi: Basque Foundation for healthcare innovation.
    - 2. Health care for the elderly: Proposals by Geriatricians. Pedro Gil Gregorio. President if the Spanish Association for Geriatrics and Gerontology.
    - 3. The elderly patient and the strategy on chronic illness in the Basque Country. Roberto Nuño Solinis. Director of O+Berri. Basque Institute for Healthcare Innovation.

Actividad reconocida de Interés Sanitario por el departamento de Sanidad del Gobierno Vasco

FRIDAY 19TH OCTOBER
- 9:30-11:00
  - ROUND TABLE II: "Choice and care quality of the elderly at home. Are they compatible?"
    Moderator: Lourdes Zurbanobeaskoetxea Laraudogoitia. Doctor. Head of the Guidance and Assessment Service. Regional Government of Bizkaia.
    - 1. Analysis of the current situation, the ethical view. Lourdes Zurbanobeaskoetxea. Dependence Guidance and Assessment Service. CEIS. Regional Government of Bizkaia.
    - 2. Care of the frail housebound elderly in Primary Healthcare, looking at evidence and innovation. Iñaki Martin Lesende. GP. Basque Healthcare System. Bilbao. Coordinator of the Osatzen Group for Care of the Elderly.
    - 3. Situations that call for institutional care. Juanjo Calvo Aguirre. Geriatrician. Zorroaga Foundation. San Sebastian.
- 9:30-11:00
  - DEBATE: Nursing and Continuing care for the elderly patient
    Moderator: Itxaro LLarena Pereira. Nursing Unit Manager. Supervisor of the Igurco Bilbozar Nursing Home.
    - 1. Community Nursing. Carmen Esparta. Nursing Manager. Interior Region. Basque Healthcare System. Bizkaia
    - 2. Nursing in the healthcare environment. Brígida Argote Martinez de Lagrán. Nursing Unit Manager. Director of the Txagorritxu Nursing Home. County Healthcare System. Alava.
    - 3. Hospital Nursing. Concepción Molina Pérez. Nursing Unit Manager. Head of Nursing Unit for Pneumology and Geriatrics. Hospital system in Navarra.
- 11:00-11:30
  - COFFEE BREAK
- 11:30-13:30
  - A holistic approach to osteoporotic fractures in the elderly.
    Moderator: Koldo Urkijo Hieyte. Geriatrician. Vice-president of Zahartzaroa.
    - 1. Different treatments for the same problem: osteoporosis in the elderly. Cristina Alonso Bouzón. Geriatrician. Getafe Hospital. Madrid.
    - 2. Nonsurgical approach: the geriatrician's role in treating fractures. Esther Roquer, Geriatrician, Sant Joan de Reus Hospital. Tarragona.
    - 3. Care Models: orthogeriatric units. Marta Alvarez de Arcaya Vitoria. Geriatrician. Hospital Manager. Ricardo Berminghan Hospital. Matia Foundation. San Sebastian.
- 11:30-13:30
  - DEBATE: Is it possible to innovate in home care?
    Moderator: Javier González Lodoso. Deputy Head of Unit for health technologies: TECNALIA.
    - 1. Advanced telecare. The Beti ON Project in the Basque Country. Alfredo Alday Jurado. Head of telecare department. OSATEK.
    - 2. Auzolan Senior: Healthy ageing at home. Eneritz Elgezua Uriarte. Neuropsychologist. ITG Group. Orue. Bizkaia.
    - 3. Zurean-tek: technology-based home care model. Iraitz Manterola del Puerto (Project Manager in the healthcare division of Tecnalia) and Karmele Acedo Gil (Manager of the cooperative Integrated Social Services group).
    - 4. Geriatric support teams in home care. Naiara Fernández Gutiérrez. Geriatrician. Igurco Healthcare Services.
- 13:30 - 15:30
  - Working Lunch
- 15:30-17:30
  - DEBATE: Advanced illness in the elderly.
    Moderator: Marbella García Urbaneja. Director of Santa Marina Hospital.
    - 1. The cancer patient at home. Julio Gómez Cañedo. Palliative Doctor. San Juan de Dios Hospital. Santurtzi. Bizkaia.
    - 2. Organ failure. Andima Basterretxea Ozamiz. GP. Home Hospitalisation Service. Cruces Hospital. Bizkaia.
    - 3. Advanced stage dementia and institutions: it is possible to offer something different. Iñaki Artaza Artabe. Geriatrician. Care director of Igurco Healthcare Services.
- 15:30-17:30
  - DEBATE: "The present and future of the range of services for aging at home"
    Moderator: Begoña Pablos de Prado. Doctor. Director of Doctors in Bizkaia.
    - 1.Financial Provision for Care in the Home Environment Mª Dolores de León Gómez. Social Worker for the Regional Government of Bizkaia.
    - 2. Respite programmes. Comprehensive support programme for family carers of elderly people. Elena Prado Armas. Social Worker. Vitoria City Council. Alava.
    - 3. Home Help Service. Karmele Acedo Gil. Manager of the cooperative Integrated Social Services group.
- 17:30-18:00
  - COFFEE BREAK
- 18:00-19:30
  - Can we find intermediate solutions between nihilism and therapeutic obstinacy? Case study.
    Moderator: Alvaro Mosquera Lajas. Educational Psychologist. M.A. in Bioethics. Aspaldiko Nursing Home, Portugalete.
    - 1. Marije Goikoetxea Iturregi. Psychologist. Professor at the University of Deusto. President of the Ethics Committee on Social Intervention of the Regional Government of Bizkaia.
    - 2. Pilar Sorando Fernández. Geriatrician. Igurco Unbe Healthcare Centre.
    - 3. Imanol Ormaza Simón. Nursing Unit Manager. Home Hospitalisation Service. Galdakao Hospital. Bizkaia.
- 19:30
  - CONCLUSIONS AND CLOSING CEREMONY