THE CARE LEVELS

PRIMARY ATTENTION
In this institute are carried out activities of health promotion and prevention. Functions:
   - Health promotion: nutrition, medication…
   - Evaluate the health state.
   - Preventives activities.
   - Early detection and assistance.
   - Palliative cares.

Sanitary education with the patients and their families:
   - Nursing cares.
   - Identification of signs and symptoms.
   - Know the necessities of health to elaborate objectives.
   - Evaluate the faults in home.
   - Sanitary education.
   - Healing.
   - Hygiene.
   - Emotional support.

Health education:
   - Nutrition.
   - Hygiene.
   - Exercise.
   - Tobacco, alcohol and drugs.
   - Prevention of falls.
   - Mental hygiene.
   - Hypertension, diabetes, obesity, dementias, arthritis…

Health education to prevent the cancer:
  - Change of a mole.
  - Persistent cough.
  - Modification in intestinal habits.
  - Blood hides in feces.
  - Problems in the urination.

GENERAL HOSPITAL
The patients has been hospitalized have acute diseases or relapse of a chronic diseases. When the patients leave of the hospital, the attention must continue in the community and in home.

SPECIALISED ATTENTION
The geriatric services only attend to geriatric patients.

The Geriatric Acute Unit is for geriatric patients to evaluate them and heal their diseases (acutes or chronics).
  - Second and thirst prevention.
  - Progressive cares.
  - Comprehensive cares: clinic, mental, functional and social diagnosis.

Half stay unit: to the reestablish the medical, surgical and functional process.
  - Second and thirst prevention.
  - Continued cares.
  - Comprehensive cares: functional and social problems.

Residence for the elderly: to patients that have chronic deterioration in their functional capacity and they can’t
be maintained in their home.

Geriatric Day Hospital: to weak patients that need physical recovery, sanitary cares and training in the daily activities.