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The mayor of Mazarrón, Alicia Jiménez and CaixaBank Foundation Business Area director, Diego García-Esteller, have signed a collaboration agreement to promote the Senior Citizens program and promote the work of promoting the active aging of older people. Mazarrón that join the nearly 21,000 people who participate every year in Spain in more than 330 activities.

Alicia Jiménez stressed that "this is an agreement that continues in the line of improving the quality of life of the elderly."

The agreement implies, said the mayor "that the Mazarrón Municipal Day Center provides three blocks of workshops: promotion of health and welfare, personal development and life cycle and training, social participation and volunteering."

In the signing were the Councilor for Social Policy, Laura Ortiz and the director of the Mazarron Day Center, Salvador Sánchez.

The objective of the program is to improve the quality of life of the elderly by promoting active aging programs with special attention to vulnerable people, always based on values ​​such as dignity of the person, humanism and solidarity.

Three blocks of new workshops

Workshops to promote health and well-beingWake up with a smile

This workshop aims to contribute to well-being and health by trying to respond to the concerns that often arise among older people for not sleeping well, with the desire to provide them with information about their dreams and their alterations, and to offer them strategies that Help them achieve a restful night's rest. Acquire The aim of this workshop is to make known how our body - in particular, the brain - and what the effects of aging are.

It also wants to make available to older people tools to detect the difference between natural aging and illness, in order to help understand the importance of an active life in order to enjoy greater well-being at this stage of life.

Less pain, more lifeTaller to promote well-being and improve the quality of life of elderly people affected by pain, and older people not affected by pain but who want to have tools for their prevention.

It aims to help fight beliefs such as pain is an evil of age, contributing to improve the physical and emotional health of the elderly.

Training It is a preventive program to achieve a healthy aging, which will help the elderly to maintain autonomy, to take care of themselves and to recover the physical activity.

Ejercit @ tu mente It is a virtual platform designed for the elderly to exercise their cognitive abilities in a simple and entertaining way, as a key to a healthy and satisfactory aging.

By entering www.activalamente.com, the elderly can follow a personalized itinerary of more than 1,200 exercises that work the main cognitive areas of the brain: language, memory, executive functions, attention and concentration, and visual processing and auditory.

Feed your wellbeingIn keeping with the objective of providing older people with the necessary tools to promote their autonomy and improve their well-being, as a novelty this year a workshop is set up in which there are guidelines and habits for a healthy and balanced diet that helps Feel better. Personal development and life cycle workshops Live as I want The workshop helps to stop understanding this stage as a period of loss and move to focus on the opportunities it offers.

In the sessions of this workshop, topics such as motivations, control of one's life, time planning, decision-making, positive thinking, relationships and granting oneself are worked on. Try to promote the values ​​of dignity and autonomy to face the stage of aging, contributing to growth and personal development.

The workshop sessions deal with themes such as resilience and adaptive capacity;

Psychological strengths such as wisdom, curiosity, courage, perseverance and sense of humor;

Conflict prevention and management;

Or feel good in solitude. Living is discovering me. In this activity, we seek to identify and promote personal resources that help people explore their own limits, grow and develop personally.

Thus, along the itinerary, opportunities to reflect and identify the possibilities offered by daily life to develop a full life are given, paying special attention to the challenges associated with self-imposed limits, social changes that shape new situations and the new environments of Relation.Terms of formation, social participation and volunteeringMayors Readers (talk) Participation in gatherings around the reading of a book chosen especially for its theme.

This workshop will be dynamized by professionals and will be carried out in those centers where the difficulty of its dynamization by professionals is valued.

Great readers (formation) Participation in gatherings around the reading of a book chosen especially for its theme and energized by volunteers.

Training activities are planned.

LocalActivity Action to develop a volunteer project with entities and agents of the territory depending on the specific needs of each area.

Intergenerational activities The objective of these activities is to promote intergenerational relationships to bring people of different age groups together, with the aim of enriching the links and mutual knowledge, using ICT as a tool for interaction. Basic training for volunteer projects To volunteers who need specific training in some computer resource to be able to develop volunteer projects: teamwork, conflict resolution, group dynamization ... Open Classroom of ActivaLaMenteActividad to energize open classrooms in which volunteers introduce participants to The use of the ActivaLaMente cognitive stimulation web platform.

Training activities are planned.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Mazarrón