Gerontology
Understanding ageing without reducing a person to their loss of independence.
Santo Domingo — Geneva
JoëlGoldstein
Founder and Director of ETSA Conseils · Consultant in organisation and management for the social care and gerontology sectors.
Living in the Dominican Republic after more than thirty years of work in Geneva.
Guiding question
How can we create meaning and fulfil our Humanity?
This question runs through my work with older people, my way of leading organisations and my commitment to passing knowledge on.
Three fields of practice
Psychosocial counselling
Listening, reconciling and knowing when to decide, informed by transactional analysis.
Project methodology
Connecting human values with sound organisation, governance and tools.
Two major transformations
Two projects in which social purpose, organisation, finance, architecture and people had to move forward together.
1999—2016
Designing a care home as a place to live
A ten-year project translating a gerontological vision into a 63-room home, opened in 2011.
Read the project →2016—2025Rebuilding and developing a foundation
Nine years leading Pro Senectute Geneva, from organisational reconstruction to stronger public partnerships.
Read the project →Today
A practice grounded in experience
Today, ETSA Conseils extends a career that began with older people in 1992 and developed through leadership, governance and education.