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We are happy to announce that the SUSTAIN project will be featured in two key conferences organised in Milan, Italy, in June 2017. SUSTAIN will be first presented by Mirella Minkman (Vilans, the Netherlands) at the EHMA 2017 Annual Conference (13-15 June), during an EU projects focused session on the first day of the 3-day conference programme. Hosted... Read more

The seminar day was organized by Surnadal municipality and The Norwegian Church. Heidrun Solstad, geriatric nurse from Surnadal municipality, was one of the key speakers and talked about user involvement and the SUSTAIN project. Solstad talked about user involvement, what it is, and how health care professionals can use it in providing better services. Quote:... Read more

The Hietzing-Hospital is one of the largest hospitals in Vienna and with its history of 110 years it is also one of the oldest. It was founded in 1907 by the city of Vienna to counter the need of hospitals and to celebrate the 60-year reign of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria. Today, Hietzing is... Read more

  Earlier this month, a delegation of the SUSTAIN consortium presented the SUSTAIN project at ICIC 2017 in Dublin. Focus of the presentation was “What have we learned so far and how to move forward?”. The session was divided in four parts: Current status of the SUSTAIN project and experiences of one of the Catalan... Read more

We are glad to announce that SUSTAIN will be part of the IFIC’s 17th International Conference on Integrated Care 2017, that will take place in Dublin, Ireland 08 to 10 May 2017. The ICIC conference is organized in association with 5th World Congress on Integrated Care (WCIC5). The ICIC conference  2017, that will be dedicated... Read more

The project consortium has produced a series of video-interviews aimed at sharing the early experience of professionals directly involved in the implementation of the project within the SUSTAIN sites. In particular, we aimed at getting views and opinions on motivations, goals and objectives, implementation challenges and cross-countries exchenges between the SUSTAIN sites. The first round of... Read more

SUSTAIN’s partner AGE Platform Europe is an organization that promotes the interests of the 190 million citizens aged 50+ in the European Union. One of their experts representing EAHSA (European Association of Housing and Services for the Ageing), Dr. Ingrid Eyers who is a former nurse, care home manager and latterly an academic researcher with... Read more

In 2015, NHS England introduced the Enhanced Service Programme, which is designed to reduce unplanned and emergency hospital admissions by improving services for vulnerable people with complex physical and/or mental health needs, who are at high risk of hospitalization. In Folkestone in the South East of England, the Sandgate Road Surgery has developed an “Over... Read more

On November 16-20, 2016, the Gerontological Society of America held their Annual Scientific Meeting. This year, the meeting was held in New Orleans, Louisiana. Located on the banks of the Mississippi river, New Orleans is a major United States port and famous for its cuisine, music and festivals. The theme of this year’s meeting was... Read more

In the current legislature, Germany has seen a battery of reform legislation addressing all aspects of long-term care: the nursing profession, their role in care, their education, their working conditions, ADL (Activities of Daily Living) and other categories that determine a person’s eligibility for LTC (Long-term Care) services, as well as better tailored care for... Read more