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Older Women Images and Technologies to Increase Gender Peace in Crisis and COVID-19 Times

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The violence - without the apparent “Gender Peace”, if data and households are examined - occurs against adult and older women, is beginning to become apparent, but there is only information from recent years. The objective is demonstrate that social isolation can be a key factor in gender peace in the case of adult and older women, even more so in the case of disability or dependency situation. This work focuses on what we call older women gender peace based on qualitative techniques. Moreover, women in this vital stage continue to be vulnerable, defenseless, have more fear and risk, despite their plausible gender peace – expression that we contribute - which connects with the current post-health crisis scenario, armed violence and wars. This chapter also contributes to the consideration of technologies addressed to adults and older women to increase gender peace.

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    Stoutdefines it as “the murder of women by intimate male partners” 7. Stout, K.D. Intimate femicide: A national demographic overview. Journal of Interpersonal Violence 1991, 6, 476–485, 10.1177/088626091006004006. In the same vein, it is defined by the WHO (2013:1) as “Femicide committed by a current or former husband or lover is known as intimate femicide or murder by the partner”.

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    For Rye 17. Centeno, R. La paz y la igualdad entre los géneros: una relación indisoluble. espacio abierto 2014, 23, 7–21. “Peace and gender equality must be understood as a continuous process of seeking social justice.” From another perspective, the UN 18. UN. Peacebuilding. https://www.un.org/peacebuilding/policy-issues-and-partnerships/policy/women. 2021. urges governments and the international community to invest in the political and economic participation of women, as they are part of the consolidation of peace and are essential partners in underpinning the three pillars of lasting peace: economic recovery, social cohesion and political legitimacy. In this article, we also refer to this continuum and to the improvement of the processes, but seen from the perspective of the women themselves to guarantee their own inner well-being with themselves. Even more, living from a biopsychosocial and sustainable positivism and freed from internal and external images and prejudices.

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    See https://encage-cm.es/.

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    See http://cuidadoresdemayores.blogspot.com/.

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    Cyber-physical systems are based on devices controlled and/or monitored by algorithms and integrated with the Internet.

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This work is part of: ENCAGEn-CM R&D Activities Program (Active Ageing, Quality of Life and Gender. Promoting a positive image of old age and aging combating ageism) (Ref. H2019/HUM-5698) (Funded by Programs of R&D in Community of Madrid Social Sciences and Humanities, co-financed with the European Social Fund. PR: G. Fernandez-Mayoralas, C Rodriguez-Blázquez, MS Agulló-Tomás, MD Zamarrón, and MA Molina).

We appreciate the support of the QASP (Quality of life, Aging in Sweden, Spain, and Portugal) research project, funded by the Institute of Health Carlos III, Intramural Strategical Action in Health AESI 2018, Ref: PI18CIII/00046, PR: MR Forjaz).

Moreover, this contribution takes parts of the grant PROMETEO/2019/119 from the Generalitat Valenciana and the Bidons Egara Research Chair of the University Miguel Hernández to Eduardo Fernández. The fieldwork for the qualitative analysis was financed by the ENVACES R&D+i project (MINECO-FEDER, ref. CSO2015-64115-R. PR: F. Rojo-Perez) and the ENCAGE-CM R&D Activities Program (Community of Madrid-FSE, ref. S2015/HUM-3367. PR: G. Fernandez-Mayoralas).

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Zorrilla-Muñoz, V. et al. (2022). Older Women Images and Technologies to Increase Gender Peace in Crisis and COVID-19 Times. In: Gao, Q., Zhou, J. (eds) Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Technology in Everyday Living. HCII 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13331. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05654-3_30

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