18. WELFARE LEVELS

To achieve a continuity of taken care, there is essential the detection of the problems that arise throughout the time and that are operated on them. For it it is necessary to transform the traditional assistance into geriatric specialized assistance with his different welfare levels, where the patient will be located in the most suitable place according to his condition. With these welfare specialized levels, the results of the Geriatrics are maximum.

The elders need of an equipment to interdiscipline that it supports his assistance: nurses, doctors, social workers, therapists, psychologists..

Geriatric unit of sharp is the welfare level related to the hospitalization of those major persons who present sharp processes or reagudizaciones of chronic diseases.

The Unit of Half A Stay receives those already diagnosed patients who have overcome the sharp phase of the disease and in that the risk of losing his independence, though they are clinical stable, is high, or, the treatment that applies them, due to his complexity, cannot be realized of ambulatory form.

The Day hospital attends to elders of ambulatory form by means of the application of treatments of rehabilitation and / or follow-up of medical problems or of nursing.

The Geriatric domiciliary assistance is the integral assistance to the major person in his domicile with the aim that it is kept in the community and in his environment in the best bill of health and of possible functionality, though he suffers chronic diseases and of invalidity.

It is important that every patient comes to the center that corresponds to him not to saturate the hospitals of Sharp.