• Lead partner: INSIEL s.p.a - RDT European Projects (IT) Contact person: Gilda De Marco, Tel.: +390403737732, gilda.demarco[at]insiel.it
• Autonomous Province of Trento, Local Ministry of Health and Healthcare Policies, Department of Health Policies (IT) Contact person: Emanuele Torri, Tel.: +390461494178, Emanuele.Torri[at]provincia.tn.it
• Garmisch-Partenkirchen Hospital (DE) Contact person: Thomas Schmeidl, Tel.: +49 8821 771040, thomas.schmeidl[at]klinikum-gap.de
• Healthcare Cooperating Group-Rhône - Alpes' Information System for Healthcare (FR) Contact person: Hubert Riccardi, Tel.: +33 4 26556822, hubert.riccardi[at]lyon.unicancer.fr
• Réseau Espace Santé-Cancer - Rhône Alpes (FR) Contact person: Hervé Spacagna, Tel.: +33 4 27828530,hervé.spacagna[at]espacecancer.sante-ra.fr
• Healthcare Cooperating Group - EMOSIST - FC (FR) Contact person: Ludovic Chouet, Tel.: +33 3 81534269, lchouet[at]emosist.fr
• Villach Regional Hospital (AT) Contact person: Alexander Thomasser, Tel.: +43 4242 208 2987, alexander.thomasser[at]lkh-vil.or.at
• General Hospital Izola (SL) Contact person: Jani Dernič, Tel.: +386 5 6606507, Jani.dernic[at]sb-izola.si
• The University Clinic of Pulmonary and Allergic Diseases of Golnik (SL) Contact person: Matjaž Fležar, Tel.: +386 4 25 69 100, matjaž.flezar[at]klinika-golnik.si
• Geneva University Hospitals (CH) Contact person: Antoine Geissbühler, Tel.: +41 22 372 62 01, antoine.geissbuhler[at]hcuge.ch

Demographic change is a global trend which particularly affects the Alps. A rising number of elderly brings to a significant growth of patients with chronic co-morbidities and age-related conditions. Changing society calls for political actions able to answer to new needs coming from an ageing society to ensure its wellbeing. NATHCARE aims to design, consolidate and validate an “healthcare local community” model embracing all the players of the system for securing a sustainable and improved organisational adaptation of healthcare services. The proposed model, capitalising on the ALIAS project, will analyse the process for an hospital-territory integration addressing mainly, but not exclusively, chronic diseases in the perspective of continuity of care as dimension of the demographic change. The NATHCARE model will be offered to the attention of policy makers, as an example on which they can get inspired to adopt orchestrated policy strategies to mitigate demographic change impact on healthcare systems.

• Sensitive Alpine territory requires appropriate and diversified measures (consensus-oriented multi-stakeholder approach)
• Rural-urban partnership requires vital networks and processes
• Cross-sectoral and integrated approaches are needed to slow down impacts in rural areas
• Rural areas need to cooperate and complement each other

• accessibility
• public services
• urban-rural partnership
• governance

• Balanced accessibility
• peri-alpine relationship