SALUD
ARAGONES
Servicio Aragonés de Salud (SALUD) is the public health provider for Aragón, having the responsibility of overall management and coordination of the existing healthcare resources in the territory, provide Primary care, Secondary care, mental care and geriatric care management, including homecare, and to the promotion and protection of individual and public health (12 General Hospitals, 110 Primary Health Centres and 5 Geriatric hospitals).
SALUD’s mission is to provide an integral healthcare attention, to ensure the services accessibility, to promote healthy lifestyles, the prevention and protection and to maintain patients’ autonomy and their social inclusion.
SALUD has a network composed of Aragón is one of the regions in Spain with a highest rate of elderly people. The public authorities are very much concerned with the demographic change, especially with the ageing of the population and they are developing several initiatives to deal with its consequences.
SALUD has just been awarded as a four stars’ reference site from the EIP on AHA, recognizing its commitment to invest in innovation for active and healthy ageing, and supporting the transfer and scaling up of this innovation across Europe.