[Program of care of disabled patients at a health center]

To systematise primary attention to the disabled by means of a programme of specific action. To create a Risk Map for the problem of "abandonment of the elderly disabled".

Retrospective descriptive study. SITE. El Palo Health Centre (Málaga). First two years of the programme (1989-1991).

Patients with physical and/or mental disability attending to Centre to obtain services. The basic Primary Attention Team. Key informants, the Voluntary Social service.

Activities: Recruitment strategies: Programme of Planned Home Visits (Subscribers' Register, Individualised Care Plan), Risk Map of Basic Area.

142 patients were included in the first year, and 203 in the second year, carrying out 4.66 and 5.95 programmed visits per patient per year, respectively. The Risk Map defined 28 areas ranked according to risk.