Health

Psychology

Microcredentials

Cognitive-emotional aspects and Care in Old Age

14.May - 11. Jun, 2025 Cod. 027-25

Promotion of well-being and Quality of Life

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Description

This is a training activity that aims to provide communication and affective management skills to those professionals who work with elderly people. It is an approach from understanding the aging process from a positive vision, where aspects of personality and cognitive-emotional processes are worked on.

Objectives

Update knowledge about the influence of cognitive-emotional processes in the aging process.

Provide students with resources and management skills with the elderly from the understanding of emotions and cognitions.

Learning outcomes and type of achievement

Understanding cognitive-emotional changes in aging

Design of strategies to promote the well-being and quality of life of older people from the paradigm of active aging.

Access prerequisites and admission criteria

Professionals who work with elderly people interested in improving their knowledge and understanding and promoting their quality of life.

The admission criterion is the applicants' curriculum vitae, which will be evaluated by the management of the activity.

Required age: between 25 and 65 years old.

Level of learning experience according to EQF European Qualifications Framework

In the case of this training activity, as it is aimed at a very diverse student body, who can be placed in different access qualifications, it could be placed at level 5 of the European qualifications framework for lifelong learning.

ESCO, European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations competency frameworks

http://data.europa.eu/esco/skill/77ee8fad-188f-44cf-88ba-4e495a52d604

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Evaluation tests

Thought-evaluations: 1. Written Reflections
Experience evaluations: 1. Case studies based on real experiences

Activity directed to

Professionals

Methodology

Hybrid / In-person and live online (P+S)

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Directors

Miren Agurtzane Ortiz Jauregui

UPV/EHU

Psychiatrist and doctor in Neurosciences. Master in Mental Health and Expert in Group Analysis. Professor of Neurosciences-Psychiatry at UPV/EHU. Professor of the Master's Degree in Healthy Aging and Quality of Life Academic Director of the Master's Degree in Comprehensive Care in Palliative Care Vice Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Nursing (2004-2021). President of the Bilbao Academy of Medical Sciences (ACMB) and member of its Mental Health Section. President of the Basque and Multilingualism Section of ACMB. Director of the Bilbao Medical Gazette. Vice President and Secretary of the UZTAI Foundation for the Promotion of Mental Health. Member of the Ethics Commission of the College of Physicians of Bizkaia (2005-2018). Member of different university, medical and medical education societies and commissions. Author and co-author of various scientific works, books, book chapters and contributions to conferences in Basque, Spanish and English. He has participated in different groups and research projects. Research lines: Psychosocial Aspects of Getting Sick, Mental Health Promotion, lifestyle and prognosis of mental illness, Chronicity, aging, Teaching research.

Speakers

Irrintzi Fernandez Aedo

I am a professional with extensive academic and scientific experience, with experience in publishing articles in journals indexed in the internationally recognized Journal Citation Reports (JCR), as well as authorship and co-authorship of specialized books in the field of health and nursing. I have actively participated in conferences and presentations, both national and international, disseminating advances in research and innovative practices in the area.

Naiara Fernández Gutiérrez

Graduated in medicine from the University of the Basque Country, specialized in geriatrics (MIR-Hospital Monte Naranco, Oviedo). His professional experience has been developed in geriatric doctor positions at Hospital Monte Naranco in Oviedo and in Residences of the Igurco Group (Bilbozar and currently in Orue). She carries out undergraduate and postgraduate teaching tasks at the University of the Basque Country in different categories: Faculty of Medicine teaching collaborator; Master's Training in Healthy Aging and Quality of Life; Master's Training in Palliative Care. He has attended different Geriatrics and Gerontology conferences and is a member of the IMQ Igurco Patient Safety Committee.

Ricardo Franco Vicario

• Internal Medicine Specialist • Clinical Head of the Internal Medicine Service of the Basurto University Hospital. • Full Professor at the UPV/EHU • President of the Bilbao Academy of Medical Sciences • Full member of the Royal Academy of Medicine of the Basque Country • Member of the Governing Board of the Royal Basque Society of Friends of the Country (Bizkaia Commission) • Member of SEPIA (Ibero-American Society of Psychosomatic Studies)

Iñaki Martín Lesende

Medical Specialist in Family and Community Medicine, Doctor of Medicine and Diploma of advanced studies in Epidemiology and Public Health from the UPV/EHU. Family Doctor Award 2021 by the Royal National Academy of Medicine of Spain. Family Doctor at the Indautxu Health Center-Osakidetza. Professor in the Department of Medicine of the UPV/EHU. Tutor for Family and Community Medicine residents. Coordinator of the emergency course for primary care researchers at the OSI Bilbao-Basurto. Research activity and knowledge transfer primarily related to care for the elderly in Primary Care. Member of different societies, commissions and working groups related to primary care and care for the elderly. Member of the Research Network on Chronicity, Primary Care and Health Promotion (RICAPPS)” –RICORS- and the BIOCRUCES-Bizkaia Research Institute. Author of various scientific works and contributions to conferences in Spanish and English in the field of geriatrics. Research lines: evaluation of diagnostic tests and validity of geriatric assessment tools, frailty and primary care.

Miren Agurtzane Ortiz Jauregui

UPV/EHU

Pilar Sorando Fernández

Graduate in Human Medicine. Complutense University of Madrid (1999-2005) Specialist in Geriatrics at the Central Hospital of the Red Cross (Madrid 2006-2010) Doctorate in Geriatrics. Univ Complutense of Madrid (Nov 2007- Feb 2009). DEA approved. Master in Palliative Care from the Univ of Valladolid (Spain) 2017. CARE ACTIVITY ESAD Doctor (Home Care Support Team) from Area 10, Jun-Dec 2010. Doctor at the Central Hospital of the Red Cross, Dec 2010-May 2011. Medical Palliative Hospital Support Team of the H. Príncipe de Asturias of Alcalá de Henares (May-Oct 2011). Doctor at Igurgo Residencias (Vizcaya) 2012-2013 Doctor in the Emergency Room of H. Santa Marina in Bilbao, 2013-2018. Doctor in the Pulmonology, Cardiology and Internal Medicine Department of H. de Santa Marina 2018-2019. Doctor in the Internal Medicine Department of the Zorrotzaurre clinic, Mar 2019-Jun 2020. Physician in the Internal Medicine Department at H. de Santa Marina, Sept 2020-Nov 2024. Medical Director of H. Santa Marina from Nov 4, 2024 to the present ADDITIONAL INFORMATION. President of the Society Vasca of Geriatrics and Gerontology, Zahartzaroa, May 2018-2022.