INGEMA - Fundacion Instituto Gerontologico Matia (Matia Gerontological Institute)

Matia Gerontological Institute (INGEMA, in Spanish) conducts research initiatives aiming at establishing the relationship between biological / social ageing and other relevant areas such as technology, housing, nutrition, or education and also at improving elderly people\\\'s quality of life of elderly people concerning their physical, social, cognitive and emotional dimensions.

INGEMA Foundation (MATIA Gerontological Institute) is a research institute with a wide expertise in research on aging and disability and with close contact with this population. Within its objective of offering the best quality in attention and services for the users and their relatives, Ingema Foundation develops multiple research and activities with the state-of-the-art in socio-sanitary and psycho-social models of attention. A highly qualified professional team with wide expertise in social sciences and clinical psychology with elderly and disable people carry out research projects, in order to offer the best attention, most specialized and most close to the user and its relatives at the same time. Its research lines are focused on the promotion of active ageing, the prevention of dependence, rehabilitation and compensating for fragility and dependence, e-health and physical activity, gerotechnology and, finally, quality of life and quality of attention.

INGEMA offers a range of services, including residential settings for older adults (6 nursing homes), day care centres (4 centres), residential setting for physically disabled (1 specialised centre attending 70 people), as well as services offered in a hospital: palliative and geriatric medicine, neurology, long stages, functional rehabilitation, psycho geriatrics, clinical psychology, social attention, spiritual attention. The foundation also offers outpatient services, including geriatric medicine, cardiology, neurology, neuropsychology, Memory and Alzheimer unit, physical and occupational therapy, rehabilitation medicine and physical rehabilitation services.