Community Medical Assistance (CMA) is a relatively new branch of nursing in the Republic of Moldova. Demographical changes caused by migration and ageing of population require community-based medical and social care services to become more integrated and person-centred, notably for elderly patients with multiple NCDs. Through the projects recent work with the Ministry of Health, understanding of the importance of CMA in PHC at community level is growing. The MoH had approved norms for organizing CMA back in 2014 but they had previously not been implemented.
