Annual report 2004 - Compagnia di San Paolo

sufficient old people.
In relation to cancer or other severe illnesses, in 2004 particular attention was given to free of
charge home-based complete care schemes. The growing social impact of senile dementia and
Alzheimer’s disease has set a priority to follow a supportive policy to build residential homes or
specialised day care centres with suitable facilities to treat these patients.
In its commitment for disabled people, the Compagnia supports the creation of social-therapy
centres for day care aimed at the maintenance/recuperation of remaining capabilities, such as to
guarantee a sufficient level of self-sufficiency and not to uproot these people from their homes.
Support to the age of development
The field of interest “Support to the age of development” is principally aimed at enhancing the
educational role of the family as well as initiatives in favour of children and young people, with a
preventive approach towards hardship.
With regard to childhood, the most significant projects deal with services for the very young and
support parents and families. These objectives have been achieved with the City of Turin through
the experimentation of family micro-nurseries and with funds for a call for proposals of crèches to
be announced in 2005.
Still concerning childhood, an initiative was launched to develop and popularise at a national level
the medical guidelines for recognition and treatment in cases of sexual abuse on minors. Also in
A.D.P.O. network project – Post hospital home care
for the elderly experiencing hardship - Turin
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With the aim of offering temporary support to elderly
people in the Turin area discharged from hospital and to
help them to recover their self sufficiency, the Compagnia
has been supporting an integrated post hospital home
care project since 2000, in collaboration with other Turin
metropolitan area authorities: charity institution, a social
cooperative and the Health services.
The project targets over 65’s, living in Turin and who have
been discharged from the hospitals Giovanni Bosco,
Martini, Mauriziano Umberto I and Maria Vittoria - Birago
di Vische. These health centres can provide home
medical and sanitary assistance to old patients. The
beneficiaries must comply with a set of criteria ranging
from personal autonomy capacity, social context, living
conditions and income.
The charity institutions and the social cooperative
provide up to 60 days home care services through social
and friendship support activities to the patient and his
family, basic home care assistance, supplementing basic
home care assistance with the local services, transport
and accompaniment to medical appointments by
ambulance, physiotherapy, hair dressing and pedicure
services, nursing care on Saturdays and Sundays; a
telephone helpline service for up to 90 days;
stay/convalescence in health resorts for up to 14 days.
One distinctive characteristic of the project is the service
delivery promptness (48 to 72 hours starting from
discharge from hospital). From the beginning of the
project in May 2000 up to the 31st of October 2004, 671
old patients have benefited from this service.
The cost supported by the Compagnia for the period May
2000 - April 2005 amounted to € 1.8 million.