Piñeiro chorus: it is necessary to break with the stereotype and decrepit image of older persons
Choir Piñeiro: “it is necessary to break with the stereotype and decrepit image of older persons” Vigo, April of 2013.- the Secretariat General for Social policy, choir Piñeiro, opened last Tuesday in Vigo X Forum Interxeneracional organized together with the Cultural Association of permanent adult education (Ategal) betting on technologies of information and communication technology (ICT) to improve the quality of life of older persons. The meeting falls within the cross-border project Envejecimiento+Activo in which participates the Xunta de Galicia and other Galician institutions and the North of Portugal, financed with funds from the operational programme of cross-border cooperation Spain – Portugal (ENIAC) and co-financed by the European Fund for Regional Development (ERDF). PINEIRO said that is necessary to break away from the stereotypical image of the more unfriendly and the staff ” for give justice to the role must have the person in today’s society ” is not, he said, that of integration and participation. In his view this social change through empowerment and promotion of active ageing and the participation of the elderly in all areas of society, along with support institutional or the development of intergenerational relations, as the own Ategal Forum, helping to break the stereotypical and unfair image ”. in that sense Piñeiro Galicia currently has about 5,000 Advanced Telecare devices and that is running Miavizor advanced Telecare project, a plan of teleprevencion which...
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