APPropriate CARE Pathway
The progressively ageing population is completely changing the systems of care, determining very critical situations both for the subjects taking advantage from the treatments and those who provide adequate responses.
For this reason, in this period, a trustworthy cultural commitment is needed, in order to propose new organized systems which are able to adequately comply with the needs determined by demography and epistemology. At the same time it is necessary to promote accurate tests which could confirm the utility (or not) of the supposed projects for the health of elderly people, in regard both the local support and the hospital.
The APPCARE project involves Italy, Spain and The Netherlands, and seeks to analyse the ways to reduce hospital admissions, in particular the recurring ones. This can be done through a process of selection of the patients the very moment they enter the emergency room and through adequate local interventions, which could allow to face many health problems without hospitalising, that always represents a stressful and risky situation for the elderly.
One of the innovative aspects of the project is the analysis of the efficacy of the insertion of a Brief Intensive Observation in the services network, working as a filter for the hospital admission and as a link with the territory.
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