Category Archives: Notícias CDC

The first webinar of UNICARE SUMMIT – “Telemedicina: um novo cuidar na saúde mental do idoso” (Telemedicine: a new mental health care for the older persons) took place 23 September and the Director of Innovation, Carina Dantas, participated on behalf of Cáritas Coimbra . “The new generation of older adults, are we prepared?” was the […]

Europe has been facing key challenges in the health and social support fields due to the demographic changes, caused by population ageing and its impact on the rising provision of care. The innovation in Active and Assisted Living (AAL) has the potential do attend to these social and health needs, benefiting simultaneously the economic opportunities […]

Found useful to be reproduced at Cáritas Coimbra Centres, the AVIK’s project good practices were presented to various groups of collaborators. The following equipments were engaged in the short therm training: Centro Comunitário de Inserção, Equipa de Rua Reduz, Sol Nascente Day Care Centre and viHda+. The AVIK project, co-financed by the ERASMUS+ Programme of […]

In a seminar focused on the challenges of ageing, health in the digital world, ageing with health and the ethics on tele-psychiatry and tele-psychology, Carina Dantas – Director of the Innovation Department at Cáritas Coimbra will share ideas on the new older adults generation. The first UNICARE SUMMIT Webinar – “Tele medicine: a new care […]

Cáritas Coimbra has installed three new DAPAS – Deploying AAL Packages at Scale systems, this time at their Residential Home for Older persons – Casa S.José, in Coimbra. The project DAPAS is aimed at people over 65 years old, and in the inability of direct contact with users, it was delivered to the equipment collaborators […]

COST NET4AGEFRIENDLY – International Interdisciplinary Network on Smart Healthy Age-friendly Environments was highlighted in the summer edition of the Newsletter AFIX from IFA (International Federation on Ageing).The newsletter consist of an informative sheet about innovation for ageing – Age-friendly Innovation Exchange (AFIX). The publication through this means of communication is of extreme importance to promote […]

Cáritas Coimbra collected, during the month of August, input of 50 nurses and caregivers of people with dementia or cognitive impairment for the international project DIANA, that started in February 2020. Cáritas de Coimbra thanks you for your contribution! There are more than 9,9 million of new dementia cases every year worldwide, which means a […]

The AAL Programme has published a new set of Guidelines for Ethics, Data Privacy and Security that addresses the AAL Framework of Excellence, including legal compliance, the ethical dialogue and some practical cases. Carina Dantas – Innovation Director at Cáritas Coimbra – led the team of experts that contributed to this work. These guidelines are […]

The Human Rights reflect the basic human needs, without which one could not live a life with dignity, appeal to equality, respect, freedom and justice. The Universal declaration of the Human Rights of the United Nations Organization (ONU), states that all humans are born free and equal in dignity and in right, endowed with reason […]

At the end of June, Cáritas Coimbra saw the project ActiVas approved, financed by Portugal 2020. This project integrates others from the Portuguese Network on Smart, Healthy and Age-Friendly Environments, of which Cáritas Coimbra is the coordinator, in partnership with the Coimbra Nursing School (ESEnfC). This new initiative aims to promote Built Environments for an Active, Safe […]