FOCUS : frailty management optimisation through EIPAHA commitments and utilisation of stakeholders’ input – an innovative European project in elderly care

Abstract

The goal of FOCUS, which stands for Frailty Management Optimization through EIPAHA Commitments and Utilization of Stakeholders’ Input, is to reduce the burden of frailty in Europe. The partners are working on advancing knowledge of frailty detection, assessment, and management, including biological, clinical, cognitive and psychosocial markers, in order to change the paradigm of frailty care from acute intervention to prevention. FOCUS partners are working on ways to integrate the best available evidence from frailty-related screening tools, epidemiological and interventional studies into the care of frail people and their quality of life. Frail citizens in Italy, Poland and the UK and their caregivers are being called to express their views and their experiences with treatments and interventions aimed at improving quality of life. The FOCUS Consortium is developing pathways to leverage the knowledge available and to put it in the service of frail citizens. In order to reach out to the broadest audience possible, the FOCUS Platform for Knowledge Exchange and the platform for Scaling Up are being developed with the collaboration of stakeholders. The FOCUS project is a development of the work being done by the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIPAHA), which aims to increase the average healthy lifespan in Europe by 2020 while fostering sustainability of health/social care systems and innovation in Europe. The knowledge and tools developed by the FOCUS project, with input from stakeholders, will be deployed to all EIPAHA participants dealing with frail older citizens to support activities and optimize performance.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.5114/fmpcr/63234
Divisions: College of Health & Life Sciences > School of Psychology
College of Health & Life Sciences
College of Health & Life Sciences > Chronic and Communicable Conditions
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Uncontrolled Keywords: frailty,healthy ageing,stakeholders,Medicine(all)
Publication ISSN: 1734-3402
Last Modified: 25 Mar 2024 08:19
Date Deposited: 07 Nov 2016 15:05
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PURE Output Type: Review article
Published Date: 2016-07-01
Accepted Date: 2016-05-18
Submitted Date: 2016-04-23
Authors: Cano, Antonio
Kurpas, Donata
Bujnowska-Fedak, Maria Magdalena
Santana, Silvina
Holland, Carol (ORCID Profile 0000-0002-1846-8897)
Marcucci, Maura
Gonzalez-Segura, Ana
Vollenbroek-Hutten, Miriam
d’Avanzo, Barbara
Nobili, Alessandro
Apostolo, João Luís Alves
Bobrowicz-Campos, Elzbieta
Martínez-Arroyo, Ana M.

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