SOCIAL ACTION, POVERTY AND COOPERATION
Advanced
diseases
Advanced
10 years supporting people at the end of their life
Providing comprehensive care for people with advanced diseases, focused on improving their quality of life. Comprehensive care involves a combination of four perspectives (medical, psychological, social and spiritual), so that medical teams deal with the pain in parallel with psychosocial care teams, who deal with the suffering of people with advanced diseases as well as the suffering of their families.
5 EspaiCaixa in different hospitals for patients and their relatives.
The programme has been rolled out to Mexico and Hong Kong.
Present in all 17 Autonomous Regions.
This annual report explains the link between the programmes of ”la Caixa” Foundation and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).
ACTIONS CARRIED OUT
Highlights
Achievements in 2019
The volunteers, or soul mates, are a vital element due to their commitment to the work of accompanying patients and their ability to listen. The programme has launched the End of Life and Loneliness initiative to attend to extreme cases of absolute loneliness among people who lack family or social support. This programme has 14 support networks throughout Spain.
In first person
Patient
“Their company gives you strength and makes you feel you are not alone. Sometimes I cry for joy at feeling so cared for.”
In first person
Relative
“I was in a very intense emotional situation, including life-changing stress, and they helped me get my second wind and move on.”
In first person
Doctor
“Humanising assistance is going to see a sick person and their family, leaving your gown in the office and approaching them as we are: people.”
AT A GLANCE
2019, in figures
SICK PEOPLE
ATTENDED
RELATIVES
ATTENDED
HOSPITALS
Humaniza,
in Portugal
The Humaniza programme has been implemented in Portugal in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and the General Secretariats of Health of the Azores and Madeira.
2019 saw the consolidation of the work carried out by the ten psychosocial care teams, located in different regions of Portugal.
4,473 patients and 5,445 relatives have been attended.
Together with Ordem dos Médicos, 13 fellowships have been granted for the medical specialty of palliative care. This initiative will increase the number of doctors with these skills by 20%.
Within the Call for Support for Associative Movements, four innovative projects have been chosen from non-profit organisations with recognised expertise in the field of end-of-life care.
