As part of the series of lectures on health issues organized by the Royal Academy of Medicine of Galicia in collaboration with the City Council of A Coruña, Prof. Millán Calenti, director of the La Milagrosa Gerontological Complex and Professor of Medicine at the University of A Coruña, gave a…
D. Antón Acevedo, General Director of Elderly People of the Department of Social Policy and Youth accompanied by Dr. Fernando Lamelo from the Unit of Coordination and Assistance Support to Residences (UCAAR) of the health area A Coruña-Cee visited the facilities of the Gerontological Complex La Milagrosa.During their visit they…
Continuing with the maintenance and modernization of the center, from June to August the first and second floors of the residence have been painted, as well as the installation of photovoltaic panels, which are currently producing between 25 and 30% of the electricity consumed by the center.You can see the…
Last Tuesday, June 28, several of our seniors, both from the day center and residence, have had the opportunity to participate in an activity offered by the Museum of Fine Arts of A Coruña, in which an immersive tour inside the museum was made with the help of a 360º…
“Third in age, first to recycle” is an initiative designed by Ecoembes and aimed specifically at the elderly, an essential group for making progress in recycling. Today there are 8.8 million people over 65 years of age in Spain, with a projection of exponential growth. In addition, the elderly have…
The City Council of A Coruña, through grants to non-profit social initiative entities (2022), subsidizes the project presented by the UDP-A Coruña entitled “Social participation as a key element of active aging: the proposal of the UDP-A Coruña” which aims to: facilitate the access of older people to existing resources;…
With the arrival of good weather, we start one of the favorite activities of our users of the Day Center, gardening. This activity has a therapeutic function as it stimulates mobility, attention span, and the will to improve. It is a creative task, which favors mental work and self-realization, besides…
At the La Milagrosa Day Care Center we continue with the development of personalized exercises such as the Multicomponent Physical Activity program using cycloergometers, whose objective, by improving muscular strength and power, is to reduce the incidence and risk of falls, as well as to prevent functional deterioration, avoiding disability…
This April we started to participate in the project carried out by Afundación (Obra Social A Banca); Pedal & Talk, framed in the international movement “Cycling without age”, initiated in Denmark and consolidated in many cities around the world. Pedal & talk is a program of volunteering and accompaniment for…
On March 14th, 16th, 21st, and 23rd, several groups of students of the Geriatrics course of the Occupational Therapy Degree of the University of A Coruña (UDC) visited our complex in the afternoon. The visits consisted of a presentation about the service model and the multiple activities of the center,…
