Authors:
Rónán O'Caoimh
1
;
D. William Molloy
2
;
Carol Fitzgerald
2
;
Lex Van Velsen
3
;
Miriam Cabrita
3
;
Mohammad Hossein Nassabi
4
;
Frederiek de Vette
4
;
Marit Dekker-van Weering
5
;
Stephanie Jansen-Kosterink
5
;
Wander Kenter
5
;
Sanne Frazer
5
;
Amélia P. Rauter
6
;
Antónia Turkman
6
;
Marília Antunes
6
;
Feridun Turkman
6
;
Marta S. Silva
6
;
Alice Martins
6
;
Helena S. Costa
7
;
Tânia Gonçalves Albuquerque
7
;
António Ferreira
6
;
Mario Scherillo
8
;
Vincenzo De Luca
9
;
Maddalena Illario
9
;
Alejandro García-Rudolph
10
;
Rocío Sanchez-Carrion
10
;
Javier Solana Sánchez
11
;
Enrique J. Gomez Aguilera
11
;
Hermie Hermens
12
and
Miriam Vollenbroek-Hutten
13
Affiliations:
1
University College Cork and National University of Ireland, Ireland
;
2
University College Cork, Ireland
;
3
Roessingh research and Development and University of Twente, Netherlands
;
4
University of Twente, Netherlands
;
5
Roessingh Research and Development, Netherlands
;
6
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
;
7
Instituto Nacional de Saúde Doutor Ricardo Jorge, REQUIMTE/LAQV and Faculdade de Farmácia da Universidade do Porto, Portugal
;
8
Nexera Centro Direzionale Isola, Italy
;
9
Federico II University Hospital, Italy
;
10
Institut Guttmann and Institut Universitari de Neurorehabilitació adscrit a la UAB, Spain
;
11
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red and Biomateriales y Nanomedicina, Spain
;
12
Roessingh Research and Development and University of Twente, Netherlands
;
13
University of Twente and Roessingh Research and Development, Netherlands
Keyword(s):
Frailty, Pre-frailty, Information and Communication Technology, Clinical, Healthcare Recommendations, Guidelines.
Abstract:
In the face of demographic ageing European healthcare providers and policy makers are recognising an increasing prevalence of frail, community-dwelling older adults, prone to adverse healthcare outcomes. Prefrailty, before onset of functional decline, is suggested to be reversible but interventions targeting this risk syndrome are limited. No consensus on the definition, diagnosis or management of pre-frailty exists. The PERsonalised ICT Supported Service for Independent Living and Active Ageing (PERSSILAA) project (2013-2016 under Framework Programme 7, grant #610359) developed a comprehensive Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) supported platform to screen, assess, manage and monitor pre-frail community-dwelling older adults in order to address pre-frailty and promote active and healthy ageing. PERSSILAA, a multi-domain ICT service, targets three pre-frailty: nutrition, cognition and physical function. The project produced 42 recommendations across clinical (screening,
monitoring and managing of pre-frail older adults) technical (ICT-based innovations) and societal (health literacy in older adults, guidance to healthcare professional, patients, caregivers and policy makers) areas. This paper describes the 25 healthcare related recommendations of PERSSILAA, exploring how they could be used in the development of future European guidelines on the screening and prevention of frailty.
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