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Information about services |
 What kinds of services does the Albada provide?
- Continual quality medical care with specialized technological support
- Continual quality nursing care with specialized technological support
- Continual quality social care with specialized technological support
- Rehabilitation, speech therapy, psychology, and neuropsychology
- Geriatric evaluation and follow-up
- Complementary services: podology, odontology, hair-dressing, barber...
- Recreational and therapeutical activities:
| - Estimulació de la psicomotricitat fina- Stimulation of fine motor control |
| - Memory stimulation |
| - Cognitive stimulation |
| - Workshops related to the preparation for certain holidays: Carnival, Christmas,... |
| - Other crafts workshops to further socialization and integration with the environment |
| -Summer camp |
| - Attending spectacles, exhibitions... |
Who is eligible for the services?
Units and number of places
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Places |
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28 |
Psychogeriatric Unit |
40 |
Unit for highly dependent chronic patients |
96 |
Unit for moderately dependent chronic patients |
34 |
Social-healthcare Day Hospital |
26 |
Day Hospital for persons with dementia |
13 |
Convalescence Unit |
21 |
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Profiles of the people attended in the different units
Unit for severely handicapped youths |
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Psychogeriatric unit |
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Patients with organic disorders and cognitive deterioration: dementia, Alzheimer
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Patients with neurological disorders with congnitive deterioration
- Patients with psychiatric disease with demential clinical presentations
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Unit for highly dependent chronic patients |
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Adults with chronic diseases or multple pathologies
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High therapeutic complexity
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Persons that need help with most activities necessary for daily living
- Relocation of residents from other units within the center
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Unit for moderately dependent chronic patients |
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Social-Healthcare Day Hospital |
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Patients with mild or moderate dependency that require assistance during the day to complement the therapeutic process (including physical, psychological, and social aspects)
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Patients requiring convalescence and/or rehabilitation
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Patients with chronic diseases that need their symptoms controlled
- Patients with chronic diseases whose families have temporarily renounced them
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Day Hospital for Persons with Dementia |
An alternative to institutionalization that offers therapeutic care to persons with dementia and to their families, with the aims of rehabilitation, prevention, and integrated care
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Exclusion criteria for the units
- Active psychiatric disease
- Dependency on toxic substances
- Specific for the Social-Healthcare Day Hospital, in addition to those mentioned above:
- Highly dependent patients
- Patients with very advanced dementia
- Patients lacking family support
Objectives of integral geriatric evaluation
- To correctly evaluate elderly persons from our reference area
- To improve the identification of geriatric diseases and syndromes, especially of reversible situations
- To ensure the proper use of the different levels of care
- To keep persons in their own homes as long as possible with the best quality of life, delaying institutionalization
- To design an individualized and continual care plan for each person
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Responsible for the information: Joan Martí ( jmartil@tauli.cat )
Last update: 16-07-2008 |
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