News and Eventes
El Salvador Launches DiabFrail-Latam Program to Improve Quality of Life for Elderly People with Diabetes in Chalatenango
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...
VIVIFRAIL and DiabFrail Workshops in Intibucá and Santa Bárbara, Honduras
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...
Launch of the DIABFRAIL-LATAM Program in La Magdalena Contreras, Mexico City
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...
Diabfrail-Latam project advances in Latin America
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...
Project closing ceremony in Chile
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...
Next meeting in Colombia of the Diabfrail Latam work teams
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 at the Annual Meeting of the Spanish Society of Geriatric Medicine (SEMEG)
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...
THE PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF THE DIABFRAIL-LATAM PROJECT SHOW A POSITIVE EFFECT OF THE INTERVENTION ON PHYSICAL FUNCTION
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...
DIABFRAIL-LATAM will extend to nine countries in Latin America and the Caribbean
The DIABFRAIL-LATAM project, led by CIBER and the Getafe Hospital Foundation, and supported by PAHO, extends to nine countries in Latin America and the Caribbean to investigate diabetes in the elderly. Funded by the European Commission, this multimodal program...
Large dissemination meeting of the Diabfrail Latam program Santa Marta, Colombia March 16-19, 2023
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...
COMPLETION OF THE RECRUITMENT PHASE
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...
DIABFRAIL-LATAM REACHES 350 PARTICIPANTS IN COLOMBIA and 100 IN CHILE
The team from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana of Bogotá, led by Doctor Carlos Cano, has achieved a new milestone in the DIABFRAIL-LATAM project by recruiting subject number 350 to participate in the study. For its part, the research team in Requínoa under the...
Launch of the Diabfrail Latam studio at the Municipal Theater of the municipality of Requínoa, Chile.
Within the framework of the project financed with funds from the European Union, Diabfrail Latam, which is being developed in 4 Latin American countries (Colombia, Peru, Chile and Mexico) and two European countries (Spain and Italy), the municipality of Requínoa in...
Interview with Dr. Parodi, director of the project in Peru, on Peruvian TV (Willax TV)
and the excerpt of the interview in which participation in the Diabfrail Latam project is offered:
Despite the pandemic, the project DIABFRAIL-LATAM continues its course
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...
Participant subjects’ recruiment initiated
After several months of delay in the start of the DIABFRAIL-LATAM study due to the global pandemic situation, the recruitment of the first participating subjects has started. Thus, on Monday 14 February 2022, the recruiting centre of the Javeriana University of...
DIABFRAIL-LATAM CONSORTIUM: TRAINING MEETINGS IN CARTAGENA DE INDIAS (COLOMBIA) AND SANTIAGO DE CHILE
November 2019 During November the consortium of the European project DIABFRAIL-LATAM held its training meetings for the researchers from centers based in Latin American countries, where -from next year- recruitment and intervention will be carried out, according to...
Diabfrail LatAm Research Project Launch
Diabfrail LatAm Research Project Launch funded by the European Union to study the effectiveness of a functional exercise and education program for older adults with diabetes. With the signing of the shared agreements between the European Commission and a Consortium...