The SAFE project (SAFE Assistance for Elderly), is a project specialized in home health care, and medical and social care.

This project is a successful model of patient care at home, which is due to ample experience in the field of qualified medical staff.

Annually within this project gain of medical and community assistance about 250 beneficiaries, aged over 65 with severe diseases.

The inclusion criteria in the project are:

• Age over 65 years
• Chronic diseases with immobilization in bed
• Oncological diseases
• Diseases after stroke, etc.
•  Lonely patients who do not have people to care for

Currently this service is offered in 5 Medical and Social centers: Chisinau, Stîrcea (Glodeni district), Rașcov (Camenca district), Rîbnița.

The project takes place in 4 regions of the Republic of Moldova (Chisinau, Glodeni (Stîrcea), Rîbnița and Rașcov).

In Day Care Centers, beneficiaries can receive medical consultations, measure of blood pressure and blood glucose. Beneficiaries have various activities and are offered various personal hygiene services (shower, laundry), communication, physical therapy, various creative activities.

Methods of fulfilment:

1. A contract is concluded with the beneficiaries of the project, which provides the free provision of social and medical services in accordance with the prescriptions of the family doctor or specialist.
2. Are provided the following services: Cleaning servicesat the patient's place of residence, body hygiene, exchange and washing of body and bed linen (within the Centers or at home), transport of the patient to the territorial association of family doctors or to the church.
3. Each Center is equipped with a procedure room, where patients can receive primary care, their vital coefficients can be controlled (blood pressure, temperature, glucose).

We have a team of qualified doctors and nurses, with work experience, dedication and professionalism.

The Austrian people continue to support Caritas Moldova in home medical care services for more than 10 years. Thus, Caritas Moldova is currently implementing two projects funded by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Social Affairs, Health, Consumer Care and Protection and Caritas Vienna: “Health Innovation” (MoH) and “Assistance) Both projects aim to contribute to the creation of the living quality of over 500 beneficiaries from Chisinau and its suburbs (Stăuceni, Bubuieci and Bic communes); s.Grigorăuca, r-n Sîngerei; s. Stârcea, rn Glodeni; the cities of Tiraspol and Râbnița; Rașcov village, Camenca district.

Within the projects, medical and social care services are provided at home through trained mobile teams, including telemedicine consultations; the provision of food package, hygiene items and personal protective equipment to meet the basic needs of the beneficiaries, as well as the communication of public health risks to increase awareness of the law. participate in various activities and are offered personal hygiene services, communication, physical therapy, creative activities, transporting the patient to the territorial association of family doctors to be at church.

The projects also strengthen local health systems by increasing personal knowledge, volunteers and other local stakeholders. These include a series of training sessions tailored to identified needs, roundtable discussions between experts addressing issues such as the provision of home care services, telemedicine, including post-Covid-19 rehabilitation and protection. In order to ensure greater accessibility of beneficiaries to care services and to implement a transparent mechanism in the management of services, the digitization process has been promoted through the development of a database.