This article reports on a university extension program that proposes an elderly care model. The program's objective is to offer assistance to low-income elderly who live in a fragile situation and with medium to high risk of hospitalization or re-hospitalization in Ijuí City, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The project includes the demands of the elderly from Brazilian Public Health Care Clinics and the municipal hospital (Hospital de Caridade de Ijuí), as well as those who seek the project by phone. The interdisciplinary care team, which is composed of teachers and students from Nursing, Pharmacy, Physical Therapy, and Nutrition undergraduate programs, carries out the evaluation of the health condition among the elderly involved with the use of quantitative tools to categorize the individuals in risk classes and select the priority for assistance. The elderly who are part of the program receive ambulatory or in-home care, depending on the conditions of access and functional capacity
Health of the elderly; Old age assistance; Hospitalization; Patient care team
