María José Mendieta

María José Mendieta is an Ecuadorian Medical doctor, with a Master of Science in Vitality and Ageing and a Master of Public Health. She is interested in public health research, especially oriented to older population and health promotion. She has experience developing public health policies in the Ministry of Health of Ecuador. She is part of the INSPIRE team within the TRANS-SENIOR program. She will be working under supervision of Mieke Deschodt and Sabina De Geest at the University of Basel and under the supervision of Geert Goderis at KU Leuven. The topic of her PhD project is 'Implementing INSPIRE, an integrated community-based care program for senior citizens' and you can find more information about it here.

You can find Maria Jose here: 

• ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Maria-Mendieta
• ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6210-8437 
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariajosemendietajara/ 

Publications: 

Main author:

• A multi-level perspective on perceived unmet needs for home support in home-dwelling older adults in the Swiss context: a secondary data analysis of a population study- BMC Geriatrics (2022)  https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-022-03479-5

Coauthor:

• Protocol for a mixed methods feasibility and implementation study of a community-based integrated care model for home-dwelling older adults: The INSPIRE project- PLoS ONE (2022).  https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0278767

• Factors associated with health-related quality of life among home-dwelling older adults aged 75 or older in Switzerland: a cross-sectional study- Health and Quality of Life Outcomes (2022).  https://doi.org/10.1186/s12955-022-02080-z

• Health and social care of home-dwelling frail older adults in Switzerland: a mixed methods study - PLoS ONE (2022).  https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-022-03552-z