María Carmen Portillo, professor at School of Nursing at the University of Navarra, explainedthe line of research that she coordinates on Chronic processes and long-term care, during the Second World Neuroscience Online Conference held last June. Portillo participated as guest speaker and moderator together with fifty national and international neuroscience specialists.

Specifically, within this line, he presented some of the methodological aspects and results of four projects integrated in the ReNACE program (Recovery, Normalization, Acceptance and Coexistence with the Disease), which seeks to promote the integration of different chronic diseases in the lives of patients and caregivers, through design, implementation and assessment of individualized multidisciplinary interventions.

The four studies focus on Parkinson's disease and, as he explains, have clear implications for the social and healthcare internship at multidisciplinary. "As a result of the results, different social and healthcare professionals will be able to have appropriate evaluation scales to determine the adaptation of patients and caregivers to any chronic process and, consequently, to plan interventions," he says. These projects are: "Study of the coexistence of patients and relatives with Parkinson's disease"; "assessment realistic implementation of a program to improve adaptation to Parkinson's disease"; "design and validation of an instrument for evaluation of the process of coexistence with Parkinson's disease in patients"; and "Spanish version of the Scale of psychosocial adaptation to the caregiver's disease (PAIS-SR): translation and validation process in caregivers of patients with Parkinson's disease".

The work has been subsidized by the Spanish Society of Neurological Nursing, PIUNA, the association of Friends of the University of Navarra and the social program Tú eliges, Tú decides, of the Caja Navarra Foundation.