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

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  • Antonio Cano
  • Donata Kurpas
  • Maria Magdalena Bujnowska-Fedak
  • Silvina Santana
  • Carol Holland
  • Maura Marcucci
  • Ana Gonzalez-Segura
  • Miriam Vollenbroek-Hutten
  • Barbara D’Avanzo
  • Alessandro Nobili
  • João Luís Alves Apostolo
  • Elzbieta Bobrowicz-Campos
  • Ana M. Martínez-Arroyo
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<mark>Journal publication date</mark>1/07/2016
<mark>Journal</mark>Family Medicine and Primary Care Review
Issue number3
Volume18
Number of pages4
Pages (from-to)373-376
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

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.