Description du projet
La prévention de la fragilité chez les adultes âgés passe à la haute technologie
Les personnes âgées présentent un risque plus élevé de devenir fragiles, de chuter régulièrement, de subir une invalidité et de nécessiter des soins à long terme. La fragilité est le résultat d’un déclin lié à l’âge, mais elle est évitable et soignable. Puisque la population d’Europe vieillit (un quart des Européens auront plus de 60 ans d’ici 2020), un besoin croissant pour des interventions efficaces se fait ressentir pour retarder l’invalidité et soutenir la vie autonome. Le projet eCARE, financé par l’UE, développe une solution numérique, des outils et des services, pour améliorer les issues de la fragilité chez les adultes âgés en tenant compte des facteurs physiques et psychologiques. Il ciblera les adultes pré‑fragiles et fragiles pour faciliter la mise en œuvre de modèles de soins intégrés dans les services sanitaires et sociaux.
Objectif
Longevity is one of the biggest achievements of modern societies. By 2020, a quarter of Europeans will be over 60 years of age. Combined with low birth rates, this will bring about significant changes to the structure of European society, which will impact on our economy, social security and health care systems.
The most problematic expression of population ageing is the clinical condition of frailty. Frailty develops because of age-related decline in multiple physiological systems. It is estimated that a quarter to a half of people over 85 years are frail , and this is set to reach epidemic proportions over the next few decades. While frailty increases, the average amount of health spending increases as well with the frailty level in a range from 1,500 to 5,000 €/person year, depending upon the frailty status and the setting of care. Frailty usually comes along associated with another risk facto; loneliness.
Then, ageing, frailty and loneliness constitute overlapping conditions submitted to multiple health and care interventions.
eCARE project aims to deliver disruptive digital solutions for the prevention and comprehensive management of frailty to encourage independent living, wellbeing and to relieve health and care services budget pressure, throughout the implementation of a Pre-Commercial Procurement scheme.
Solutions should improve outcomes for frailty in old adults entailing the physical and the psychosocial factors. The target group are the pre-frail/frail old adults with emphasis on those that feel lonely and/or isolated.
The project will procure the development, testing and implementation of digital tools/services and communication concepts to facilitate the transition to integrated care models across health and social services and country-specific cross-institutional set-ups, including decentralised procurement environments and collaboration across institutions.
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28001 Madrid
Espagne