INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON ELDER ABUSE:
“A HIDDEN REALITY”– 16 February 2007
9:00 – 9.30 Documentation pick-up
9:30 – 10:00 Introduction
- Mr Josep Solans, Managing Director of the Live and Let Live Foundation (Fundació Viure i Conviure) of Caixa Catalunya’s Social Works Programme
- Mr Santiago Vidal, Magistrate at the Provincial Courts of Barcelona
- Dr Joan Mateo, Dean of the Faculty of Education, University of Barcelona
- Mr Josep Maria Bosch, Second Vice-President of the Senior Citizen Council of Catalonia
10:00 – 10:30 Lecture: "Elder Abuse: An Issue involving Health, Ethics and Human Rights”
- Dr Lia S. Daichman, President of The International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse (INPEA). Consultant in Gerontology and Geriatrics. Collaborator with the WHO and other NGO on Ageing with UN Status, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Presentation and moderation of the colloquium: Mr Jordi Muñoz, Lawyer, Member of EIMA’s Research Team
10:30 – 10:45 Colloquium
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 – 11:45 Lecture: “The Intergenerational Transmission of Elder Abuse”
- Prof. Jordan Kosberg, The University of Alabama Endowed Chair of Social Work in the School of Social Work at The University of Alabama
Presentation and moderation of the colloquium: Dr Joan Mateo, Dean of the Faculty of Education, University of Barcelona
11:45 – 12:00 Colloquium
12:00 – 12:30 Lecture: “Ethical and psychosocial issues raised by the intervention in cases of mistreatment of the elderly”
- Prof. Marie Beaulieu, Professor at the Research Centre on Ageing (CDRV), Sherbrooke University, Québec, Canada
Presentation and moderation of the colloquium: Prof. José-Manuel Alonso Varea, Psychologist. Director of the interdisciplinary graduate programme in family violence (IL3-UB)
12:30 – 12:45 Colloquium
12:45 – 13:15 Lecture: “Ageing in FREEDOM: Is it possible to prevent negligence and violence against the elderly?”
- Dr Charles-Henri Rapin, Geriatric physician, Geneva University Hospitals, Switzerland
Presentation and moderation of the colloquium: Dr Salvador Altimir, President of the Catalan-Balearic Society of Gerontology and Geriatrics
13:15 – 13:30 Colloquium
13:30 – 15:00 Break
15:00 – 15:30 Lecture: “Elder Abuse: Current perspectives from the UK”
- Prof. Bridget Penhale. Professor at the School of Nursing and Obstetrics, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Presentation and moderation of the colloquium: Dr Antoni Yuste, Vice-president of the Catalan-Balearic Society of Gerontology and Geriatrics
15:30 - 15:45 Colloquium
15:45 – 17:15 Round Table: "Intervention: Several examples of praxis in different contexts"
- Mr Javier Barbero, Psychologist, Hospital de la Paz, Madrid
- Mr Alain Koskas, Gerontologist, President of the Gesront’Aisne network, “Allo Maltraitances”, ALMA, Paris
- Dr Marie Beaulieu, Professor at the Research Centre on Aging (CDRV), Sherbrooke University, Québec, Canada
- Dr Charles-Henri Rapin, Geriatric physician, Geneva University Hospitals, Switzerland
Presentation and moderation of the colloquium: Prof. Mercè Tabueña, PhD in Psychology and Social worker. Professor of Social Policy and Social Services, and Gerontology, University of Barcelona
17:15 Closing ceremony
- Mr Miquel Perdiguer, Director of Caixa Catalunya’s Social Works Programme
- Mr Rafel Ribó, Ombudsman of Catalonia
- Mr Josep Marquès, Provincial President of the Barcelona Red Cross