Integrating better care for older people
date: 17/02/2017
Project: Sustainable tailored integrated care for...
acronym: SUSTAIN
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As the European population continues to age, care services are being put under increasing stress in many countries. However, because older people are not always adequately involved in the decisions which will shape the latter years of their lives, their needs and preferences are not always taken into account.
With this in mind, the EU-funded project SUSTAIN aims to achieve better integration of care for the elderly by improving the assessment of older persons’ health and social care needs, involving patients in the decisions affecting them, and offering them the choice of different types of support.