Brígida Argote: “El modelo de cuidados tradicional está en crisis.”

La alerta viene de Brígida Argote, subdirectora del Área de Personas Mayores del Instituto Foral de Bienestar Social de Álava. Brígida sabe de lo que habla, y habla con pasión, porque su trayectoria profesional gira en torno al bienestar de las personas y los cuidados. Convencida de que el modelo actual está cuestionado, propone avanzar hacia un modelo de cuidados innovador, de calidad y sostenible. Participará en el bloque dedicado a la sostenibilidad de los cuidados y, concretamente, se centrará en cómo “Garantizar un cuidado ético y sostenible desde el punto de vista personal y social”.

Brígida, ¿qué te gustaría compartir en el Congreso de los Cuidados?

Somos seres sociales e interdependientes. Las personas nos necesitamos, unas de otras para la supervivencia de la especie; es decir, el cuidado es indispensable para mantener la vida y reproducirla, y nos constituye como seres humanos. Todos los seres humanos, en diferentes momentos de nuestra vida necesitamos de los cuidados. Los cuidados tenían lugar en el hogar, donde era la mujer la que ejercía el cuidado de los hijos e hijas, del esposo, de los padres; sin embargo, la obligación de cuidar se extiende más allá de lo privado y adquiere una dimensión pública.

Teniendo en cuenta que el trabajo de cuidados vertebra las sociedades y, al mismo tiempo, expresa y reproduce la desigualdad, ¿por qué crees que es necesario alcanzar un pacto por los cuidados? ¿Qué contenidos debería contener dicho pacto?

El modelo de cuidados tradicional está en crisis y requiere un cambio estructural en los modelos de bienestar. Ha pasado de ser un valor privado a ser un valor público y debe cultivarse en todos los espacios donde se dan las relaciones humanas: además de en la familia, en las profesiones, la administración, la política, los comercios… y, puesto que la necesidad de cuidados es básica, habrá que reconocer el derecho universal a ser cuidados, pero también un deber universal de cuidar. Por ello, es necesario alcanzar un pacto desde un enfoque de derechos, con perspectiva de género, un modelo de vida independiente centrado en la persona, con un enfoque comunitario, de forma que las personas que necesitan cuidados puedan recibirlos en su domicilio, con los apoyos que necesite.

¿Qué agentes deben formar parte de este pacto?

Desde una política transversal de los cuidados, deben formar parte todos los sectores: salud, servicios sociales, vivienda, empleo, tercer sector, urbanismo, justicia, familia y comunidad.

Danos un par de razones para estar en Donostia en el Congreso de los Cuidados

Porque el modelo actual está cuestionado ya que la sociedad está cambiando y es necesario tratar y conocer las propuestas sobre un modelo de cuidados innovador, de calidad y sostenible. De esto trata el contenido del Congreso, y hay que caminar hacia un consenso sobre ello.

Joana Revilla

Coordinator of Gizatea, Association of Insertion Companies of the Basque Country

Joana Revilla, coordinator of Gizatea, Association of Insertion Companies of the Basque Country, has a degree in Business Administration and Management, and in Market Research and Techniques.

Her professional career in the last 15 years has been linked to the third social sector, highlighting her experience in entities in the field of sheltered employment and social and labour inclusion of people in vulnerable situations.

Since 2018 she has been working at Gizatea, contributing to the promotion of insertion companies in the Basque Country and strengthening the sector.

Amaia Saenz de Ormijana

Social and Health Coordinator of the Integrated Health Care Organisation (OSI) Araba

Nurse by training, with a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Brighton, a Master of Science from the University of Montreal and a PhD (Research Proficiency) from the University of the Balearic Islands – Toronto.

My interest to continue studying and training has allowed me to live diverse professional experiences both in the world of clinical practice and in the world of teaching, undergraduate and postgraduate, as well as in research.

Currently, and for the last 7 years, she has dedicated her work to management, and for the last 4 years she has been especially focused on social and health care coordination in the Araba Integrated Health Organisation, for which I am a social and health care reference, as well as the Social and Health Care Coordinator for the territory of Alava on behalf of the Health Department.

Joan Costa i Font

Professor of Health Economics, London School of Economics

Joan Costa i Font is Professor of Health Economics and Director of the Ageing and Health Incentives Laboratory (AHIL) at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He has been a Harkness Fellow at Harvard University and a policy evaluation fellow at Sciences Po Paris, as well as a Marie Curie Fellow at LSE. He is the author of the WHO report on global financing of care (2022), the IDB report on financing dependency in Latin American countries (2022) and the National Bureau of Economic Research report on financing care in Spain (2023). He has published more than a hundred publications in high impact international journals, and several books in publishing houses of international relevance. He is also a researcher affiliated to the two main European networks of economists: IZA (Bonn) and CESIfo (Munich).

Mª Encarnación Betolaza López de Gámiz

Director of the Osakidetza University School of Nursing in Vitoria-Gasteiz

She is a Graduate in Nursing, has a specialisation in Mental Health Nursing and has a Master’s Degree in Bioethics and multiple and varied continuing education.
She began her professional career as a General Nurse at the Txagorritu Hospital in Vitoria-Gasteiz more than 42 years ago (1981). In 1984, when the Acute Psychiatry Unit was opened in the other hospital in the city, Hospital de Santiago Apóstol, she joined the unit as a specialist mental health nurse. Later, in the early 90s, she moved to the Txagorritxu Hospital where she worked initially as a Paediatric Nurse and later as General Supervisor in the afternoons and evenings.
Since November 1994, she has been a lecturer at the University School of Nursing in Vitoria-Gasteiz, her area of knowledge being Mental Health Nursing. At the same time, since 1998, when the Teaching Unit for the Speciality of Mental Health Nursing in Osakidetza was accredited, she has been Head of Studies in Specialised Health Training for 20 years. member of the National Commission for this speciality, at the proposal of the Ministry of Education.
Over the years, she has also collaborated in many teaching activities in postgraduate courses and in the Osakidetza Continuing Education Programme; and she has participated in different forums for the dissemination of knowledge. Currently for the last 8 years (2015), she has been the Director of the University School of Nursing of Vitoria-Gasteiz of Osakidetza / Basque Health Service, a teaching centre attached to the University of the Basque Country/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea.

Elixabete Elordi

Technician of the Long-term Care Transition Plan, Provincial Council of Bizkaia

Graduate in Social Work from the University School of Social Work in Donostia and qualified Social Educator, with a Diploma in Guidance, Supervision and Coaching from the Navarra Mitxelena Association in collaboration with the Institut Für Beratung und Supervision de Aquisgran, R.F.A., Degree in Sociology from the Pontifical University of Salamanca and Master’s Degree in Governance and Political Studies from the University of the Basque Country EHU.

With regard to her professional career, she was a volunteer for five years in the free time service of the Gorabide Association, she started working as a social educator in the Kale Dor Kayicó Association (1990 -1992), then for three years she worked as a representative and dynamiser in a youth movement (92-95) in Madrid. When she returned to Bilbao she worked as a social educator in Agintzari, S. Coop de iniciativa social (96-97) and later she worked in Cáritas Diocesana de Bilbao (1997-2008), carrying out functions of coordination, institutional representation and dynamisation of voluntary work.

She currently works for the Provincial Council of Bizkaia (since 2008). Initially as a Social Worker in the Dependency Guidance and Assessment Service, later as a Social Services Inspector and currently as a Technician in the Long-term Care Transition Plan.

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