Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi Onlus

Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi is one of the most important non-profit Foundation and one of the biggest in the Rehabilitation, Healthcare, Assistive Technology and Elderly Care in Italy.

Founded by Don Carlo Gnocchi to provide care, rehabilitation and social integration for children who lost their limbs in the war, the Foundation has gradually expanded the scope of its operations over the years. In the past half-century, it has mainly dealt with disabled children which suffer of acquired or congenital pathologies, and patients of all ages who require neurological, orthopaedic, cardiac and respiratory care.

Since the 1980s, it has expanded to assisting elderly people who cannot look after themselves, and, in the past few years, terminal cancer patients.

Recognised as an Institution of Hospitalisation and Scientific Care, the Don Gnocchi Foundation now employs nearly 6,000 people.