{"id":7148,"date":"2017-12-04T08:56:57","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T07:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elparlante.es\/web\/the-great-elderly-of-les-corts\/"},"modified":"2017-12-04T08:56:57","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T07:56:57","slug":"the-great-elderly-of-les-corts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elparlante.es\/en\/the-great-elderly-of-les-corts\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Elderly of Les Corts"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Photography, theatre and a lot of media criticism make all the difference in this active ageing project that we started in the District of Les Corts.<\/em><\/p>\n

Last May we screened the short
\n film Las Joyas de la Corona<\/a>
\n<\/strong> at Les Corts Town Hall. In the midst of the applause, voices were heard saying: “An unforgettable experience”, “A dream come true: Being actresses and making a film”, “At first we thought we were not capable… But we did…” They were the men and women protagonists of the short film, a group of elderly people from the Casal Can Novell.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A year ago, we were invited to work in Les Corts<\/strong> to develop a project called La Gran Gent Gran<\/strong>. From the beginning, everyone was willing to discuss and analyze how older people are represented in the media. The aim of this project was to raise public awareness about ageing through innovative methodologies that mix media criticism and audiovisual co-creation.<\/p>\n

According to data from the National Statistics Institute, by 2050 people aged over 65 will represent more than 30% of the total Spanish population. In addition, the birth rate in Europe tends to fall while the percentage of elderly people rises. And the news warns us that octogenarians will exceed the figure of four million in 2020. If this is the reality, we must ask ourselves, how do we perceive the elderly?, how will new generations be able to take care of them if they do not know them, if they isolate them, if they look at them through stereotypes?<\/p>\n