Participants of the Diabfrail program tell their experience and the effects that the change in habits and the practice of exercises generated on their health, within the framework of the implementation carried out by PAHO and the Jujuy Ministry of Health for the...

Doctors from the DIABFRAIL-LATAM project warn of the rise in diabetes due to population aging The Head of the Geriatrics Department at Getafe University Hospital, Dr. Leocadio Rodríguez Mañas, highlights that two-thirds of people with diabetes worldwide are over 65...

The Ministry of Health of El Salvador, in collaboration with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), has launched the DiabFrail-Latam program at the La Palma Health Unit in Chalatenango. This initiative aims to improve the quality of life for elderly people...

Honduras has launched a training program for facilitators of the "Diabfrail" and "Vivifrail" programs. These evidence-based interventions target older adults with and without diabetes, respectively, with the goal of improving their quality of life through small...

As part of the Urban Governance for Health and Wellbeing Project, a meeting was held with the work team from the La Magdalena Contreras municipal government, who will be responsible for implementing the DIABFRAIL-LATAM Program in their area. This meeting took place at...

Members of the DIABFRAIL-LATAM consortium met in the city of Bucaramanga, Colombia, on May 22 and 23 2024, to present the results of the research conducted in Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru, and to align actions to favor the expansion of the project to other...

Thursday, May 30th – 9:00 a.m. Chile time – 3:00 p.m. Spain time The Theater of the city of Requínoa, Chile, will host this important ceremony with the presence of local, regional and University authorities and also patients who, voluntarily, played a crucial role in...

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...

During April 11 to 13, 2024, the 10th Meeting of the Spanish Society of Geriatric Medicine (SEMEG) was held at the Parador de la Granja de San Ildefonso (Segovia), where the DIABFRAIL-LATAM project was the subject of various presentations within the framework of the...

EN EL DÍA MUNDIAL DE LA SALUD On the occasion of World Health Day, which is celebrated on April 7, the clinical pharmacologist-researcher at the HUG Foundation for Biomedical Research and project coordinator, Dr. Olga Laosa, has highlighted the...

One of the highest impact dissemination activities carried out by the consortium has been the dissemination event held in Santa Marta, Colombia (16 to 19 of March, 2023), coinciding with the course of the Latin American Academy of Geriatrics (ALMA), which this year...

On April 21, 2023, the selection of participants in the clinical trial of the Diabfrail Latam project concluded. Thanks to the work of the Latin American partners from Colombia, Peru, Chile and Mexico, we finally have a total of 712 participating subjects. We think...

and the excerpt of the interview in which participation in the Diabfrail Latam project is offered:

The COVID 19 global pandemic has also had its effects on our project. When recruitment of participants was about to start in the first quarter of 2020, the pandemic broke out. This meant that recruitment could not start within the timeframe originally planned in the...