Regione Emilia-Romagna
Aster – Societa Consortie per Azioni
Given the ageing population and the related need for assistance, Emilia-Romagna Region is implementing strategies and interventions shifting from a passive-services’ approach to a pro-active community based approach. In this context, the Emilia-Romagna Region has adopted the following strategies:
Development of a model of proactive care for people with frailty and multimorbidity using protocols of integrated care between clinical and primary care services also involving caregivers.
Promotion of the assistance and health intervention based on intermediate structures, such as the Case della Salute (House of health), providing primary care service close to people place of residence, based on a pro-active community based care model (initiative medicine).
Promotion of programs for the assistance and follow up of peoples with diseases related to frailty and multimorbidity.
Implementation of programs of prevention through lifestyles involving young people: “Okkio alla salute” (8-9 years old) and the study “Health Behaviour in Schoolaged Children” (11-17 years old).
Implementation of a National Surveillance programmes focussing on lifestyles involving adult and elders population: “PASSI” (18-69 years old), “PASSI d’Argento” (over 65).
Moreover, due to its wide range of good practices in the field of Ageing, Emilia-Romagna Region (through the RER-DG SPS and the ASSR-RER) is deeply committed in the field of Active and Healthy Ageing. Its involvement is reflected through the Regional Agenda and with the recent awarding of the EIP-AHA Reference Site status. The Region has committed to develop several research activities aimed at improving the capacity of the Regional System to address adequately elder’s preventive and curative care involving different stakeholders from the public, academic and private sector (call for projects in clinical governance research with 2.5 M. Euros budget).
Within the EIP on AHA context, the Emilia-Romagna Region is specifically committed on different actions brought about by 5 working groups: A1, A2, A3, B3 and C2. Through the initiative, the Region embraced the cause of promoting active and healthy ageing of its population in order to increase the quality of life in the elderly and, at the same time, to improve services sustainability.
As Lead Partner of the project, ASSR together with the Affiliated Entity Aster, has a long-lasting experience (almost twenty years) in the technical and financial management, administrative management and accounting supervision of EC funded projects as well as of national and international authorities (Ministry of Health, National Health Institute) funds.
