Lines of work
Actions to implement
Projects
Dignified and diverse care in old age: inclusion of LGBTIQA+ older people in residences in Tenerife
The LGBTIQA+ older adult community is a particularly vulnerable group in the face of aging and dependency, both due to their age and their sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. Recent studies (Carrascosa et al., 2024; Government of Navarre, 2023) reveal a double structural discrimination, invisibility, and inadequate social and healthcare services that meet their specific needs.
Party
This innovative art-health-citizenship program addresses a complex and multifaceted challenge of enormous importance in our contemporary society: Unwanted Loneliness. It works with groups of adolescents and adults over 65, using a multidisciplinary approach that combines knowledge and tools from disciplines such as health sciences, sociology, and the performing arts.
Cooperative physical activities for intergenerational socio-affective interaction
This project includes a series of courses and workshops that cover the theoretical and practical foundations of cooperative physical activities and how these can contribute to the development and enrichment of socio-affective bonds between groups of different generations (university and non-university students and older people).
Artistic Mediation
This intervention/research project consists of a series of art mediation workshops for older adults, conducted in and for associations, groups, or institutions serving senior citizens. The project has been validated by the Department of Social Action of the Island Council and aims to assess the impact of artistic activities on the social and emotional well-being of participants. The framework for this project is art mediation, an approach in which creative and reflective processes are adapted to individual and collective needs, promoting a socially transformative vision of the arts.
Investigating the Digital Divide: A Battle for the Inclusion of Older People
The proposal of this project in the context of the Chair is to investigate and analyze the barriers that hinder the access of older people to digital applications, which are increasingly necessary for daily life, and the development of technological tools that facilitate their use, employing the latest advances in Artificial Intelligence and carrying out usability tests adapted to older people.
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Training
Program of activities 2024 January-December:
Vice-Rectorate for Culture and University Extension, ULL
- Course: Legal Guidance and Training for Older Adults
Raúl Acosta and Iván Hernández

Mention and awards
Mention for Scientific Merit and Ethics of Care
Mention for Scientific Merit and Ethics of Care to Antonio Martín-Hernández of the University of La Laguna for his TFG in 2023: "The vital role of grandparents in the education and development with grandchildren in the contemporary family.".
Investigation
INVESTIGATION The daily life of older women in rural areas: present, needs and future [ethnography and gender].
Mention for Scientific Merit and Ethics of Care
Mention for Scientific Merit and Ethics of Care to Antonio Martín-Hernández of the University of La Laguna for his TFG in 2023: "The vital role of grandparents in the education and development with grandchildren in the contemporary family.".
Knowledge transfer
KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER
- Health, quality of life and gender in older people (2023)
- Report on the activities carried out during 2023
- Report on the activities carried out during 2024
- A collaborative link has been established between the chair, the Ínsula project of the International Association of Universities of the Third Age and the University Institute of Social Research and Tourism.
Publications
- ‘'Older Women's Everyday Life in the Canary Islands'’, by Elvira Molina Fernández and Fernando Barragán Medero
- The vital role of grandparents in the education and development of grandchildren in the contemporary family
- Will Preparation and Donations
Raúl Acosta and Iván Hernández
Octaedro Publishing - Institutional Chair, Life Cycles and Older Adults. Tenerife Island Council and University of La Laguna. A proposal for happiness, tenderness and equality.
Everything changes.
Short film 'The life of the elderly. Violence, unwanted loneliness, tenderness'‘
Directed by Mabel Lozano
Screenplay: Mabel Lozano and Fernando Barragán