INGEMA - Fundacion Instituto Gerontologico Matia
Ingema Foundation is a research institute part of the Matia Group, with a wide expertise on ageing- and disability-related research and with close contact with elderly population. Ingema aims at being the best qualified care provider and at proving services of the highest quality. Multidisciplinary-approached research is at the core of Ingema‘s projects and activities, which are founded on state-of-the-art in socio-sanitary and psycho-social models of attention.
INGEMA provides a broad range of services, including residential settings for older adults (6 nursing homes), day care centres (4 centres), residential settings for people with physical disabilities(1 specialised centre attending 50 people, setting of the present project), as well as the regular hospital (palliative and geriatric medicine, neurology, long hospitalised stays, functional rehabilitation, psycho-geriatrics, clinical psychology, and social attention).
INGEMA holds long-term experience in both national and international projects, especially European-funded research initiatives regarding elderly people and people with disabilities. For instance, Hebe, Soprano, Iward, Vital, CompanionAble, i2home, Hermes, Tecforlife are some of the EC-funded projects within the FP6 and FP7.
The validation of the AsTeRICS system will be conducted in the Centre for Specialised Residential Care IZA which is part of the MATIA Group. The resource centre is specialised to achieve a better quality of life for persons with disabilities as well as their family members which include the support and/or improvement of their independence, functional abilities, wellbeing, satisfaction, integration and support of their social and family relationships. The service that provides to each resident, mainly young, people is personalised and adapted to their needs because additional to physical disabilities sometimes they also suffer from cognitive impairments. The user profile is young people with severe physical disabilities, people with diverse pathologies, Spinal Cord Injury, Traumatic Brian Injury, etc.
Contribution to the AsTeRICS Project:
- User requirements: Broad knowledge and extensive experience regarding the elderly people and people with disabilities
- Direct contact with elderly people and people with severe physical disabilities: users in nursing homes and day care centres, as well as elderly people and people with disabilities who live in socio sanitary centres
- Different scenarios in which to carry out evaluation tests
- Extensive experience in aspects related to data privacy and ethics, through its Ethics and Research Committees.
Role in the AsTeRICS Project:
INGEMA will contribute to AsTeRICS mainly to User Involvement. INGEMA will bring in broad knowledge and extensive experience regarding the elderly and people with disabilities and has direct contact with elderly people and people with severe physical disabilities who live in nursing homes as well as socio sanitary centres and visit day care centres. Furthermore INGEMA has extensive experience in aspects related to data privacy and ethics, through its Ethics and Research Committees.