The elderly population in the context of the Não Vale TB project

The elderly population has emerged as one of the main target groups of the Não Vale TB project, given the predominance of aged individuals in the territories covered by the

Supervised consumption room in Porto is going to be a reality

APDES together with  SAOM – Serviços de Assistência Organizações de Maria; Arrimo – Organização Cooperativa para Desenvolvimento Social e Comunitário, CRL; Cruz Vermelha Portuguesa – Porto Office and the APF

Get to know our project Não Vale TB

The treatments, the bad information, the fears that Tuberculosis causes takes people who lives with this disease feel even more excluded. They are stigmatized by society, and sometimes by those

A study proves that the elderly are not the affected by loneliness

Normally, the human being associates the phenomenon of loneliness with the older age group. The age factor and the loneliness that comes from it puts this group at the top