Program Overview

Program Overview

The Master in Management of Primary Care - Long Term Care from fragility to longevity prepares specialists in the management and coordination of health and social care interventions based on the assessment of the needs of the person and the family, ensuring an appropriate allocation of resources in this context.

Program Objectives

The objective is to train professional figures with optimal skills to accompany the patient throughout the entire care process, from taking charge to assistance autonomy, with application in various possible work environments, such as hospital operating units, territorial operating units, socio-sanitary districts, and protected residential facilities.

Target Audience

The Master in Management of Primary Care - Long Term Care is aimed at all subjects who possess a degree in health professions of prevention, health professions of rehabilitation, nursing health professions, and obstetric health professions.

Work Environments

The reference work environments are:

• Basic health services
• Integrated home care
• Semi-residential and residential hospital and district care services
• Hospital services
• Health and social districts
• Assisted health residences
• Hospice

Program Structure

The Master in Management of Primary Care - Long Term Care includes:

• Initial training on the following topics:
  • Framing of the problem, description, and dimension of the phenomenon
  • Type of fragile patients with clinical notes
  • Methods and tools for detecting the cognitive state of the person as a clinical parameter
  • Main behavioral disorders and consequent approaches to intervention for taking charge of the fragile person
• Basic training with the following teachings:
  • Tools for evaluating and taking charge of the fragile patient
  • Long Term Care in the continuity of care
  • Educational-relational aspects
  • Hospital discharge and continuity of care
  • Medical-legal and ethical-deontological aspects
  • Legal aspects of end-of-life care
• Clinical training, with in-depth study of the following topics:
  • Nursing assistance in Long Term Care
  • Cognitive decline and interpersonal dynamics
  • Management of vascular accesses
  • Management of cutaneous ulcers
  • Evaluation of the nutritional state
• Professionalizing training, dealing with the following topics:
  • Accompaniment of the patient to the end of life
  • Advance treatment directives
  • Informed consent
  • Clinical risk management
  • Professional responsibility
  • Hospital infections
  • Pain management
  • Pharmacological therapy and drug interactions

Educational Activities

The Master in Management of Primary Care - Long Term Care includes:

• Frontal lessons, concentrated in short periods agreed between teachers and students, for a total of 270 hours
• Individual didactics, characterized by exercises and internships in a hospital environment and in socio-assistance contexts at the headquarters designated by the affiliated companies, for a total of 80 hours
• Self-managed individual study, amounting to approximately 600 hours
• Project work activity, consisting of the production of an essay related to a improvement project, to be proposed at one's own Operating Unit/Department/Company, which provides for the implementation of organizational assistance models for fragile and/or non-self-sufficient patients, for a total of approximately 400 hours of individual work

Admission Requirements

The titles of access will be specified in the selection notice 25/26.

Tuition Fees

• First installment: € 1,622.50
• Second installment: € 1,004.00 Total contribution: € 2,626.50

Duration and Start Date

• Duration: Annual
• Start date: 15/01/2026

Location and Language

• Location: Padova
• Language of delivery: Italian

Credits and Didactics

• CFU: 60
• Didactic modality: In presence

Frequency and Availability

• Frequency is mandatory at 70% of the total hours of Master lessons
• Minimum available places: 10
• Maximum available places: 30

Final Exam

The final exam consists of the production and oral presentation of an essay related to a project that provides for the improvement of the care of the fragile patient in a defined care context.