Prevent dependency in the elderly from Primary Care

Researchers of the University of Cadiznext to Cádiz Biomedical Research and Innovation Institute (INIBICA), have promoted the STELAR projectan initiative that aims Prevent dependency in older people from Primary Care.

The project, led by teachers Alejandro Galan-Mercant and Verónica Pérez-Cabezasfrom the Physiotherapy area of ​​the Faculty of Nursing and Physiotherapy of Cádiz, focuses on functional health of older people which are found in risk of dependency and disabilityfor which you search new tools and approaches with which to improve care for this group.

In this way, we search coping with loss of autonomyand they do it from Primary Care to detect risks, act preventively and promote closer monitoring and thus, ultimately, reduce situations of fragility, dependency and disability, as highlighted by the university in a statement.

It is worth highlighting the multidisciplinary nature of the projectsince professionals from medicine, nursing, physiotherapy and hospital pharmacy participate in its development, which makes it possible to address functional health from a comprehensive and multimodal perspective, an approach that is especially relevant, they point out, in older people, a group whose health status is usually conditioned by different factors, requiring coordinated responses from various areas.

Transfer potential and applicability in the healthcare field

The STELAR project, which has funding from the Own Plan of the University of Cádiz, the Own Plan of the INiBICA, the FEDER funds of the Junta de Andalucía and the National Plan of the State Research Agency, within the framework of the Knowledge Generation 2024 call, was also a outstanding initiative in the I Innovating Health Conferenceorganized by the Andalusian School of Public Health and the Andalusian Health Service last November.

Specifically, it was selected, for its transfer potential and applicability in the healthcare fieldas one of the five most notable initiatives of the day, which received nearly 80 projects and a meeting in Granada of more than 280 health professionals to make visible proposals focused on the transformation of Primary Care models in Andalusia.