Italian Partners
Centro Assistenza Domiciliare Azienda Sanitaria Locale RM B (CAD)
Amministrazione Comunale di Pollenza (COMPOL)
Universita degli Studi di Perugia (UNIPG)
Centro Assistenza Domiciliare Azienda Sanitaria Locale RM B (CAD)
Azienda Sanitaria Locale RM B (Rome, Italy) is part of the National Health System. It encompasses an area of 213.6 Kmq with 690.229 inhabitants. Inside RM B, Centro Assistenza Domiciliare (CAD; Centre for Home Care) of III District supplies home care services for 200.000 inhabitants. On average, 500 patients are in charge of the service, with about 20.000 nursing procedures per year and about 4.000 hours of rehabilitation per year. In addition, more than 2000 patients are followed through scheduled visiting of GPs.
The regular staff includes a general coordinator, who is the chief of the structure and is a physician, a nurse coordinator, 6 medical specialists (geriatrics, community medicine, cardiology, surgery), 7 nurses, 2 physiotherapists, one social assistant.
Special services addressed to peculiar patients are: palliative treatment and pain therapy for oncology patients; treatment of haematology patients; geriatric assistance for a Community Centre; special service for “assisted discharges”. The medical staff is in charge of a centre for Alzheimer disease, which proposes a mixed, ambulatory-home, assistance. For both domiciliary and demented patients, EHRs are currently used to store clinical information.
Dr Dario Amici, chief of the structure, is a geriatrician who is engaged since 1989 in the organization of health services inside the NHS, particularly addressing to home care.
Dr Fabio Campana, PhD, is a geriatrician with interest in geriatric epidemiology and clinical application of EHRs to geriatric patients. He took part in the epidemiological branch of Progetto Finalizzato Invecchiamento and multicentric epidemiological studies. He was professor of geriatrics at School of Physiotherapy Università La Sapienza (Rome).
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Azienda Unita Sanitaria Locale Roma B
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Amministrazione Comunale di Pollenza (COMPOL)
The town of Pollenza has about 6.000 inhabitants, with 23% over 65. There is a rest home for 25 people. Pollenza is part of the Azienda Sanitaria Territoriale n°15 District of Macerata (population of about 91.000 inhabitants; area of sq. Km 410). The Azienda comprises 2 hospitals, 1 centre for long-term care, 1 centre for rehabilitation, 3 nursing homes. The District has 3 Operating Units. One Assessing Unit has been constituted to evaluate the best care structure for the patient: HC, nursing home, rehabilitation facility. This Assessing Unit is in charge of the Centre for Alzheimer disease. Medical specialists activity at home is provided by medical staff working in ambulatories and hospitals. The Municipality activated a desk for social counselling. Dr Pia Francesca Tomassini is the town councillor for health and social service of Comune di Pollenza, she is a geriatrician and physiatrist at Dept. of Geriatrics of Ospedale Provinciale di Macerata.
Third Internal Department - General University Hospital in Prague
The Third Internal Department of General University Hospital and of the First Medical Faculty, Charles University, belongs to the leading medical facilities in the Czech Republic. It has been specialised in endocrinology, diabetology, and metabolism including disorders of nutrition and including cardiovascular diseases. It has also a long time experience with general internal medicine and geriatrics. There are 92 beds in 5 standard wards, 2 intensive care units, and large out-door section in our department. Substantial number of in-door patients have to use post acute long term care. The team will focus on supply of medical knowledge about long term patient care and evaluation of the designed system.
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Comune di Pollenza
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Universita’ degli Studi di Perugia, Department of Geriatrics (UNIPG)
The University of Perugia was funded in 1308 and currently has 11 faculties, 29 departments with a total of 1,200 full-time staff. During the 2004-05 academic year it had over 31,000 students.
In the Faculty of Medicine, the activity of the Deptartment of Geriatrics is devoted to the care of elderly patients and to the study of age-related conditions and diseases. Both clinical and research activities are articulated in different branches and areas.
Clinical activities: Memory Clinic (with an amount of 400 pts/year); Day Hospital (800 pts/year); Acute Care Ward (600 pts/year); Outpatient Clinic (1500 pts/year); Centre for osteoporosis (300 pts/year).
Research activities: Brain ageing, epidemiological studies, assessment of geriatric patients, Alzheimer disease, MCI patients and Neuroradiological research.
Patrizia Mecocci, Professor of Gerontology and Geriatrics at the University of Perugia, is responsible of the Centre of Brain Aging and Dementias in the Elderly as well as of the Neurochemistry Laboratory. She collaborated to the creation of the electronic record for patients and the collection and statistical analysis of the data. She is author of more than one hundred peer reviewed papers, several book chapters and books.
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Universita degli Studi
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Telecom Italia (TI)
The Telecom Italia Group is a major Italian enterprise and a key European strategic ICT player. Driven by technological innovation and a commitment to service excellence, Group companies (spearheaded by Telecom Italia, TIM, Telecom Italia Media and Finsiel) operate in fixed-line and mobile telecommunications, Internet & Media, Information Technologies. Telecom Italia Lab is the R&D branch of the Telecom Italia Group.
Centre of excellence since 1964 in networks and services, Telecom Italia Lab took part in the definition and consolidation of the GSM standard, Mp3 and optical transmission. Today Telecom Italia Lab employs more than 1000 researchers and has an average R&D investment of 140 Meuro per year.
Main research areas are: the evolution of mobile communication, from third generation mobile systems to a variety of overlapping wireless networks increasing access flexibility (WiFi, UWB, WiMax, MoFi); the diffusion of broadband bandwidth, studying affective techno-economic solutions to deploy optical fibres; the dissemination of identification and localization systems embedding tagging technologies within telecommunication functionality; leader and originator of JADE (platform for developing agent based applications) open source project. Telecom Italia Lab has been a participant from the beginning to the European Union Framework Programmes, starting with the first pilot projects of the ESPRIT programme in 1983, and continuing as one the primary European collaborators in terms of finance and number of projects.
In the 5FP Telecom Italia Lab has been involved in more than 50 IST projects and has coordinated the following: IMAP, GRACE, LION, OCCAMM and WINE GLASS. In the Sixth Framework Programme Telecom Italia Lab is involved in 14 Projects and is coordinator for NOBEL.
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Telecom Italia
Spa
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FSL - Fondazione Santa Lucia
Santa Lucia Institute is a hospital (Rome, Italy) for the neuro-motor rehabilitation of patients. Medical research has been a fundamental part of the institutional activities, in addition to the clinical practice, since the foundation.
FSL is Scientific Institute for Research, Hospitalisation and Health Care. Research is carried out on neuro-lesions and their motor and cognitive consequences.
Clinical activities include: 320 places for in-patients used in the treatment of an average of 2000 patients/year; 500 outpatients/day treated in ambulatory setting or day-hospital.
From 2004, a new site houses the pre-clinical research laboratories of Santa Lucia as well as the "European Brain Research Institute", the president is Professor Rita Levi Montalcini (Medicine Nobel Prize winner for discovery of Nerve Growth Factor).
The chief of the Neurology and Neurological Rehabilitation Division at the “Fondazione Santa Lucia” is Dr.Carlo Caltagirone, Full Professor in Neurological Rehabilitation at the Medicine Faculty at the “Università Tor Vergata” in Rome. Since 2002 he is Scientific Director of the “Fondazione Santa Lucia”. He participated in the committee which defined the Italian guide-lines on diagnosis and management of Alzheimer disease and dementias. He participates in the board of the Italian Network on Alzheimer Disease (ITINAD), leading the research group on Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI).
Dr. Roberta Annicchiarico is a geriatrician. Her main research interests are the disability correlates of chronic diseases, and possible clinical applications of new technologies.
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Fondazione
Santa Lucia
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