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Trabensol

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Trabensol website
This video has timestamped descriptions to allow viewers to jump to particular topics and sections. Links will open the video in YouTube.
Who are you and what is your relationship with the Trabensol project? (0:21)
I see that we have a project before us whose “fundamental objective is to seek a satisfactory way to spend the last years of life” where is it located? (4:05)
Why the name “Trabensol”? (5:21)
You are a cooperative, can you tell us why you have chosen this model of organization? How has your legal process been? What difficulties have you encountered? (6:08)
Who initiated this project? (8:31)
I read on the web that this project falls under the category of “Social Center of Coexistence, Assistance and Services for the Elderly” From your experience, what differentiates this social center from a nursing home? (10:41)
What exactly does the person who decides to be part of this cooperative society have access to? (14:36)
What is the internal functioning of the people of this cooperative society? (17:05)
Are decisions made by voting or by consensus? (22:16)
How is a project of this type sustained? (24:19)
Is this project sustainable in the long term? (27:17)
Does the possibility of obtaining institutional subsidies to sustain this cooperative society model exists? (28:47)
Are there people employed in Trabensol? (30:28)
Trabensol proposes a model of life that is centered on solidarity, physical and psychological care, mutual support, and trust. How are these values represented in your daily practices? (31:06)
The Center writes that one comes to live here “the final stage of life” can you explain what you understand by this stage? (39:09)
What kind of person can live in Trabensol? (43:45)
Can you tell us what a pensioner’s reality is like in Spain? (45:53)
Can you tell us how you’ve experienced El 15M? (53:02)
Coming from a vital activity that relates to cooperativism, why do you think that the cooperative tradition has not yet established itself as a social model even though we are in a territory where cooperativism has strong historical roots? (57:20)
Do you advise people so they can replicate the Trabensol model? (1:03:10)
What does it mean for Trabensol to grow? (1:08:56)
Considering your experience in this cooperative society and your own learning, what ideas, values ​​or experiences would you say could be useful for the pending task of social transformation? (1:13:00)
Based on your experience, what does this model of society have yet to learn about this stage of life? (1:21:45)

The fundamental objective of this project is to communally search for a satisfactory to pass the last years of life. We do not understand the phase of life that is strictly final, in which age or sickness can deteriorate one in such a way that they can barely take care of themselves and require significant assistance in order to attend to their basic needs. We understand the last years of life as a phase that is actually quite long, that people approach or reach at the end of their working life– their children are independent, but at the same time we realize that our capacities to act in our environment is changing. This gives way to us thinking about making changes in our living conditions in order to adapt to the new circumstances. We think that an adequate way of doing this is to put many aspects of our lives in common with others that are in the same circumstances and have fundamentally the same way of thinking. In order to accomplish this we are creating a Social Center for Communal Living, Assistance, and Services for Seniors in a facility that allows for adequate attention to residents according to their needs.

The facility has individual lodging that is large enough to allow independence and reasonable comfort, but it is smaller and easier to maintain than former living spaces adapted to other family needs. Services provided include a dining room, cleaning, and laundry, which allow the resident to be free from such tasks that become increasingly more difficult with time. The facility also includes spaces that facilitate meeting and communicating with others and communal living between all of the residents. The closeness and harmony fostered with other people with will allow there to be mutual support and friendly help in the face of small difficulties that are encountered. When the state of a resident requires more continuous and professional attention, this care will be given within their habitual environment, which will facilitate the resident’s ability to deal with their limitations or problems as they occur.

From a psychological standpoint, this way of life combines independence and cooperative participation. It seeks to avoid the loneliness and isolation that are so common in our cities, which tend to foster impersonal relationships. This way of living facilitates the formation of networks, which are vital to identity and social assimilation and are especially necessary older social networks (with family, work, political movements, etc.) are no longer the most adequate for the current situation.

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