Plan de Negocios - Entorno de Alegría

Los adultos mayores tienen derecho a tener una vida segura emocional y económicamente que genere tranquilidad en ellos. Para esto, presentamos una propuesta llamativa para el cuidado de la población mayor con un enfoque de aventura en sus vidas, mediante el modelo de negocio Entorno de Alegría como centro de asistencia social para beneficiar la salud y estado emocional de ellos. Queremos que los adultos mayores vuelvan a ser niños, que sientan la inocencia, alegría y diversión en cada actividad que realizan y que por sobre todas las cosas irradien felicidad en cada una de sus acciones. Entorno de Alegría nace con el fin de dar solución a las condiciones que son generadas por la vejez mediante una propuesta impactante de diseño, ambientación, espacio, filosofía y portafolio; a través de un centro de recreación, entretenimiento y diversión para personas de la tercera edad por medio de actividades especialmente diseñadas para promover su bienestar y condición de vida digna que les permita disfrutar plenamente la nueva etapa que empiezan a vivir. Se desarrollarán actividades físicas, de entretenimiento, belleza entre otras, en donde el mayor beneficio será el dinamismo y la compañía que se proporcionan por medio de la recreación.

Assessment of social cognition in schizophrenia through the “Reading the Mind in the Eyes” test. Implications for rehabilitation

Introduction: Schizophrenia is a serious and chronic mental illness that has effect on cognitive and social functioning of a person who suffers it. Recent research points out that social cognition subprocesses, such as Theory of Mind, social perception or emotional processing, have to do with some problems that patients show in their social adjustment. Aim: Assessing ability of recognizing mental states from facial expressions in schizophrenia patients compared to a control group. Subjects and methods: 17 stable schizophrenia patients who are aware of the illness and 17 healthy people, with the same age and sociocultural level, took the “Reading the Mind in the Eyes” Test Revised Version of Baron- Cohen. Results: Compared with the control group, subjects with schizophrenia showed much lower scores. Conclusions: It is confirmed that schizophrenia patients have impairments to understand facial expressions, especially from the eyes. That is typical of this illness, so it is necessary to do interventions at that point. Furthermore, inability to recognize emotions, as a domain of social cognition, contributes to deficit in functional outcome in schizophrenia. Finally, some treatment programs are put forward.

Can SMS Technology Improve Low Take-up of Social Benefits?

Low take up of stigma-free social benefits is often blamed on information asymmetries or administrative barriers. There is limited evidence on which of these potential channels is more salient in which contexts. We designed and implemented a randomized controlled trial to assess the extent to which informational barriers are responsible for the prevalent low take-up of government benefits among Colombian conflict-driven internal refugees. We provide timely information on benefits eligibility via SMS to a random half of the displaced household that migrated to Bogot´a over a 6-month period. We show that improving information increases benefits’ take up. However, the effect is small and only true for certain type of benefits. Hence, consistent with previous experimental literature, the availability of timely information explains only part of the low-take up rates and the role of administrative barriers and bureaucratic processes should be tackled to increase the well-being of internal refugees in Colombia.