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Ageing Care and the Climate Crisis in Villages on the Spain-Portugal Border

Project description

Climate change impact on ageing care in Spanish and Portugal Border Villages

Climate change dramatically impacts populations worldwide, putting pressure on smaller populations confronted by an increasing occurrence of climate catastrophes. Villages on the Spain-Portugal border, for instance, are facing an growing number of forest fires and higher temperatures; this, along with the decreasing population, has greatly impacted social care, especially for older people. Supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) programme, the CLIMAGECARE project aims to study the impact of climate change on the older people of these villages and the impact depopulation has had on the management and operation of health programmes and social care for the aged. The project will focus on social care in relation to primary health systems and the daily care of the elderly.

Objective

CLIMAGECARE explores ageing social care and older people's care experiences in the context of the climate crisis in villages on the Spain-Portugal border. The border and rural areas of Spain and Portugal share environmental and social conditions that impact the care of older people because depopulation processes and the lack of care policies in social and health programmes are causing a care crisis, and the current climate crisis is increasing the number of forest fires and the temperatures in these border areas, which mainly affect the ageing population. This project adopts a critical and reflexive approach to understand how ageing care is delivered in these rural border areas in a context of climate crisis. It analyses: (1) ageing social care in relation of the primary health system, community and families in the context of climate crisis events such as forest fires and increased temperatures, and (2) the daily care experiences of older people in the context of climate crisis events and their cultural construction of care and self-care based on their relationship with local care actors and the non-human environment. The design of CLIMAGECARE is grounded in empirical and interdisciplinary research, crosscutting the fields of care studies, environmental studies and medical anthropology to understand the dynamics of the relationships between ageing care and the climate crisis. The project will use qualitative research methods and a co-creation approach in two villages on the central Spain-Portugal border to answer the research questions.

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Funding Scheme

HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-GF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships

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Call for proposal

(opens in new window) HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01

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Coordinator

CENTRO EM REDE DE INVESTIGACAO EM ANTROPOLOGIA
Net EU contribution
€ 279 166,56
Address
AVENIDA DAS FORCAS ARMADAS ED ISCTE IUL
1649 026 LISBOA
Portugal
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