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,…
On 24 February, the Mayoress of A Coruña, Inés Rey, gave the conference “Reactivating A Coruña: Present and Future of our city”, as part of the 2022 Conference Cycle of the Provincial Association of Pensioners and Retired People of A Coruña-UDP. The meeting was held at the Círculo de Artesanos,…
The Provincial Association of Pensioners and Retired People (UDP-A Coruña) continues with enthusiasm the series of conferences on health that was inaugurated on 20 October last year. On 27th January the third conference took place in the Circulo de Artesanos, on this occasion we had the presence of the professor…
On Thursday 4th November we resumed the therapeutic chess programme, which had been suspended due to Covid-19It is held weekly, on Tuesdays at the Day Centre and Thursdays at the Residence. The activity is given by the monitors of the Cultural Sports Association (INCUDE) of the UDC and the support…
The Research Group in Gerontology and Geriatrics of the UDC continues its collaboration with the Gerontological Complex La Milagrosa in relation to the Active Ageing Programme, funded by the Provincial Council of A Coruña through its calls FOIE and FOAXE/2021, which aims to improve the quality of life of institutionalised…
The Provincial Association of Pensioners and Retired People (UDP-A Coruña), once the restrictions imposed by the Covid-19 Pandemic have been overcome, has launched a new cycle of conferences in the Sporting Club Casino facilities. It began on Wednesday 20th October with the conference “How to live 100 years and not…
