The next meeting of the DIABFRAIL-LATAM Project will be held in the Colombian city of Bucaramanga on 22 and 23 May, coinciding with the Congress of the Colombian Society of Geriatrics and Gerontology, which will take place in that city from 22 to 24 May.
The DIABFRAIL-LATAM project, funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Programme, seeks to scale up scientifically validated interventions for frail and prefrail older adults with diabetes in Latin America. The initiative, coordinated by the Spanish public Biomedical Network Research Centre (CIBER), involves the collaboration of several European institutions and universities, the Pan American Health Organisation and universities in Peru, Mexico, Colombia and Chile.
This project has carried out an intervention in frail and prefrail older adults with diabetes in Chile, Peru, Colombia and Mexico. Now It will scale up the intervention in order to integrate it in the usual clinical practice of these and other Latin American countries, through the active participation of the Pan American Health Organization, a project partner.
DIABFRAIL-LATAM builds on the achievements of the previous MIDFRAIL-STUDY project, funded by the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, and led by Professor Leocadio Rodríguez Mañas, who also coordinates DIABFRAIL-LATAM. MIDFRAIL-STUDY intervened in seven European countries and involved the participation of several research groups, some of them also collaborate in DIABFRAIL-LATAM.
In DIABFRAIL-LATAM, the intervention has been tailored to the specific needs of the participating Latin American countries. It also incorporates elements of the VIVIFRAIL project, funded by the Erasmus+ programme and coordinated by the Public University of Navarra, also a partner in this project.
The meeting at Bucaramanga will be attended by working teams from Spain, Italy, Colombia, Chile, Peru and Mexico, as well as the delegation from the Pan American Health Organization, which, in addition to leading the dissemination, is already making significant progress in scaling up, and the CEOMA team, which is in charge of disseminating the project among the older adults’ community.
In addition, during the congress of the Colombian Society of Geriatrics and Gerontology, several members of the DIABFRAIL-LATAM Consortium will also offer lectures where they will present several aspects of the project and advance some preliminary results of the intervention.
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