Home as the first place of care and telemedicine - Integrated home care

The project identifies a service for theprovision of home care that responds to the specific needs of people who are not self-sufficient and in fragile conditions, with ongoing pathologies or their outcomes, making the most of the possibilities offered by new technologies and thus helping to reduce the burden of care activities provided in the family.

The Home Care Service ensures that the person can be cared for in their own home, through customised care paths, defined on the basis of a simple (triage) or multidimensional assessment, carried out in relation to the level of complexity of the needs detected. The Home Care Service can be activated by the family doctor or paediatrician, or by the hospital doctor for people who must be discharged following hospitalisation and who need continuity of care through territorial care.

The aim is to significantly strengthen and extend home care by making the most of the potential offered by new technologies and to increase the volume of services rendered in home care.
The 2019 baseline for the Province of Trento indicates 6,285 persons in ADI over 65 years of age (5.35% of the population over 65 years of age as of 1 January 2020, i.e. 122,248)

Provincialtarget: to increase to 9.76% the percentage of the population over 65 in 2025 (131,477) receiving integrated home care with an increase from 2019 of 6,286 new patients receiving home care for a total of 12,826 patients in care.

The Autonomous Province of Trento, as implementing party, uses theAzienda Provinciale per i Servizi Sanitari (APSS) as the delegated implementing party.

The implementation of the NRP in Trentino fits coherently into the programme framework for sustainable provincial development, according to the policies identified in the provincial Economic and Financial Document and its Update Note.

PNRR funding: € 24,237,851.00

In 2023, the Provincial Operational Plan for Home Care was approved, the State, Regions and Autonomous Provinces Agreement of 4 August 2021 was implemented and the process of adapting the provincial system of authorisation and accreditation of facilities for the provision of home care, a necessary condition for the provision of services under the PNRR (Resolution no. 953 of 26 May 2023), was started.
The project's progress is in line with the planned annual targets.