Descrizione del progetto
Uno sguardo più approfondito agli anziani affetti da cancro e alle loro famiglie
Offrire un’assistenza di alta qualità, economica ed equa a milioni di anziani affetti da cancro, nonché ai loro familiari, spesso oberati di lavoro, che li sostengono, è particolarmente importante per il settore della sanità e l’economia. Il progetto NAVIGATE, finanziato dall’UE, intende valutare l’efficacia e l’efficienza in termini di costi di un innovativo intervento di gestione rivolto a oltre 530 pazienti ultrasettantenni affetti da cancro e ai loro familiari che li assistono in diversi sistemi sanitari in Europa. L’intervento prende come modello un programma canadese di gestione su base volontaria sperimentato con successo che sostiene le persone con condizioni di salute in peggioramento e le loro famiglie allo scopo di migliorarne la qualità della vita e il benessere, di promuoverne la responsabilizzazione e di facilitarne un accesso tempestivo ed equo a risorse e servizi sanitari e di assistenza sociale.
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Background: Most people who have cancer are older people, affecting millions of Europeans each year. Providing high-quality, equitable, and cost-effective care across the continuum of supportive, palliative, end-of-life, and survivorship care for both patients and their frequently overburdened family caregivers is highly relevant from an economic, a healthcare and a prevention perspective.
Aims: The EU NAVIGATE project is an interdisciplinary, cross-country and intersectoral project aiming to evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a Navigation Intervention (NavCare-EU) for older people with cancer and their family caregivers in different health care systems in Europe.
Concept and methods: NavCare-EU is a person- and family-centered non-pharmacological intervention in which navigators collaborate with patients and families to improve quality of life and well-being, foster empowerment, and facilitate timely and equitable access to health and social care services and resources as needed, throughout the supportive and palliative care continuum. NavCare-EU is based on the existing and successfully tested Nav-Care intervention from Canada. Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness will be evaluated through an international pragmatic randomized controlled trial among 532 cancer patients aged 70 years and older and their family caregivers. Robust mixed-method subgroup analyses and in-depth process and implementation evaluations are also included.
Impact: EU NAVIGATE will advance the state of the art by providing innovative solutions to the complex supportive and palliative care needs experienced by older cancer patients and their families, which is implementable in the real world and in diverse health care systems and contexts. User and stakeholder involvement methods are integrated throughout the whole project.
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