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[...] This priority focuses on the need to equip and train patients with the appropriate knowledge and skills so that they are able to understand their health condition and to adopt available solutions to manage their health and quality of life. Healthcare and social care providers play a key role in this area, namely in demystifying and clarifying prevention, care and cure aspects to the patients and citizens in general. Furthermore, it is also necessary that they translate the technical jargon into a “common” language so that patients (and citizens) are able to clearly understand the specific aspects of their cases and how they can act to better manage their health and lifestyle.
Carina Dantas
This is in fact an area that needs to be developed. Cáritas Coimbra is developing many of these activities during its participation on H2020 projects, but we see that there's still a very low participation, awareness and even knowledge on many social care organisations - the economic crisis and the subsequent lack of resources made real damage on NGOs and they have difficulties in investing in these areas, but their iputs are indispensable in orderto have the results we want - solutions that work, that are adjusted to their target and that can have market impact.
Carina Dantas, 19/09/2016 16:46