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Teaching second languages to adults has gradually been taking on an importance worthy of special attention in Argentina. Focusing the aim on this increasingly large age group, called "passive", although still intellectually very active, has been our task during the last three years. Our motivation has been new linguistic and methodological searches intended to favour learning, create a good level of satisfaction to stimulate our public and improve their quality of life. We are included in a National Program offered at universities to stimulate continuing education. Our proposal consists of language workshops (Italian and English in this case) for this age group, people from 55 years old and up, who, as mentioned, is increasingly growing and for whom we still lack methodology for second language acquisition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to study the type of social support perceived by the older adult and the satisfaction with it, in relation with their psychological well-being. For this purpose the following instruments were selected: 1)Diaz Veigas's Inventory of Social resources for older adults which was used to asses the satisfaction with the perceived social support. 2) The psychological well-being index structured by Stefani (2002). At the moment these instruments were administrated to 150 elders who are part of the sample. The subjects were male and females middle class older adults, residents of Buenos Aires city and it outskirts. Discussion: The data of this investigation coincide with other studies and add empirical evidence with relation to the role played the satisfaction with the perceived support in the perception of the state of health and the psychological well-being of the aged person. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objectives: To perform a list agreed by Argentinean experts and adapted to the local context containing potentially inappropriate (PI) medications in old people (OP) usingthe Delphi consensus technique optimized for this subject., Methods: A preliminary list of potentially inappropriate medications (PIM) was drawn up based on foreign PIM lists and a selective search in the scientific literature. The iterative Delphi process was used to submit the active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) of the preliminary PIM list to the panel of Argentinean experts. The analysis of theanswers to determine the arrival to the consensus was carried out applying three criteria specially defined for this purpose., Results: After two Delphi rounds, it was not reached agreement about 12 APIs. The List of explicit criteria for PIAPIs for use in OP (IFAsPIAM List) was finally constituted by 128 APIs corresponding to 9 groups of the ATC classification system to which they were organized. In addition to each API, information justifying the unfavorable benefit/risk profile and therapeutic alternatives or recommendations/precautions was recorded. The group with the most PI APIs was N (NervousSystem) (60; 47%) followed by groups C (Cardiovascular) and M (Musculoskeletal)., Conclusion: This study presents the first Latin American list of PIM in OP developed using an expert consensus technique. The IFAs PIAM List would contribute to the rational use of drugs in elderly population, constituting a valuable tool in Argentinean public health., (Copyright © 2018 International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR). Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)