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Unicauca Physical Therapy Program: Connecting lives, we promote health care

9 March, 2026

Ninth-semester Physiotherapy students and faculty carried out a cardiovascular health and social outreach initiative at the Villa Carolina Protection Center in Timbío.

Last Wednesday, May 21, at the Villa Carolina Protection Center, located in the municipality of Timbío (Cauca), the cardiovascular health and social outreach event “Connecting Lives, Promoting Health Care” was held. This activity was led by ninth-semester students from the Physiotherapy program at the University of Cauca who are enrolled in the course Practicum in Cardiopulmonary Physiotherapy and Critical Care, accompanied by faculty members from the cardiopulmonary physiotherapy axis.

The event aimed to promote healthy aging among the older adult population through educational strategies focused on encouraging lifestyle habits that contribute to overall well-being.

Likewise, it allowed future physiotherapists to strengthen their clinical and social competencies from a humanistic and community-based approach, aligned with the principles of university social responsibility.

From the Department of Physiotherapy at the University of Cauca, we recognize the importance of these initiatives, as they enable the fulfillment of the institution’s mission-driven objectives, strengthening the University’s presence at the departmental level and generating a direct impact on communities that require special attention.

In particular, the institutionalized older adult population represents one of the most vulnerable groups, as they face not only the aging process itself, but also conditions of frailty associated with limited family and social support networks.

For this reason, it is even more necessary to create effective opportunities for access to health care, accompanied by professional attention and spaces for human interaction that allow not only the addressing of their physical needs, but also the provision of moments of closeness, listening, and companionship that positively contribute to their emotional well-being and to an improved quality of life.

In this regard, this initiative is framed within the guidelines of the National Public Policy on Aging and Old Age 2022–2031, as well as the objectives of the Decade of Healthy Aging 2021–2030, promoted by the World Health Organization. From academia, we thus reaffirm our commitment to the comprehensive training of health human talent and to the well-being of the most vulnerable populations in the territory of Cauca.