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TY - JOUR
T1 - Tackling frailty and functional decline
T2 - Background of the action group A3 of the European innovation partnership for active and healthy ageing
AU - Cano, Antonio
AU - Dargent, Guy
AU - Carriazo, Ana
AU - López-Samaniego, Luz
AU - Apostolo, Joao
AU - Campos, Elzbieta
AU - Holland, Carol
AU - Varela-Nieto, Isabel
AU - Luz Sánchez-Sánchez, M.
AU - Illario, Maddalena
AU - Iaccarino, Guido
AU - Roller, Regina E.
AU - Goossens, Edwig
AU - Vollenbroek-Hutten, Miriam
AU - Pais, Sandra
AU - Schena, Federico
AU - Musian, Daniele
AU - Alvino, Serena
AU - Maggio, Marcello
AU - Liotta, Giuseppe
AU - Ussai, Silvia
AU - Orfila, Francisco
AU - O’Caoimh, Ronan
AU - Paul, Costança
AU - Pazzi, Stefania
AU - Romano, Valeria
AU - Obbia, Paola
N1 - This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Maturitas. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Maturitas, 115, 2018 DOI: 10.1016j.maturitas.2018.06.009
PY - 2018/9
Y1 - 2018/9
N2 - Ageing populations represent a challenge to the sustainability of current healthcare systems. The need to balance these demographic changes with gains in healthy life years and quality of life (QoL) constitutes an additional challenge. Aware of this, the European Commission (EC) launched the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIPonAHA) in 2012. The EIPonAHA is an interdisciplinary and cross-sector initiative involving more than 3000 partners with two specific objectives: to increase the healthy life expectancy of Europeans by two years by 2020, while increasing their QoL. The initiatives of the EIPonAHA have been organized according to six thematic action groups (AGs), with the A3 group targeting areas relating to the prevention of functional decline and frailty. In addition to the good practices of partners, there are several on-going collaborative works. The involvement of the EC includes support through an elaborated research programme in which the Consumers, Health, Agriculture and Food Executive Agency (CHAFEA) and the Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CONNECT) are the main funding bodies. Screening approaches and preventive interventions constitute most of the initiatives within the A3 AG. Partners are distributed across five sub-groups according to good practices: i) cognitive decline, ii) food and nutrition, iii) physical activity, iv) caregivers, and v) frailty and functional decline. Regular updates of the progression of both good practices and collaborative works are presented in A3 AG meetings. The 2017 meeting in Valencia, Spain, showcased in this paper, provides an up-to-date overview of the current status of A3 activities.
AB - Ageing populations represent a challenge to the sustainability of current healthcare systems. The need to balance these demographic changes with gains in healthy life years and quality of life (QoL) constitutes an additional challenge. Aware of this, the European Commission (EC) launched the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIPonAHA) in 2012. The EIPonAHA is an interdisciplinary and cross-sector initiative involving more than 3000 partners with two specific objectives: to increase the healthy life expectancy of Europeans by two years by 2020, while increasing their QoL. The initiatives of the EIPonAHA have been organized according to six thematic action groups (AGs), with the A3 group targeting areas relating to the prevention of functional decline and frailty. In addition to the good practices of partners, there are several on-going collaborative works. The involvement of the EC includes support through an elaborated research programme in which the Consumers, Health, Agriculture and Food Executive Agency (CHAFEA) and the Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CONNECT) are the main funding bodies. Screening approaches and preventive interventions constitute most of the initiatives within the A3 AG. Partners are distributed across five sub-groups according to good practices: i) cognitive decline, ii) food and nutrition, iii) physical activity, iv) caregivers, and v) frailty and functional decline. Regular updates of the progression of both good practices and collaborative works are presented in A3 AG meetings. The 2017 meeting in Valencia, Spain, showcased in this paper, provides an up-to-date overview of the current status of A3 activities.
KW - healthy ageing
KW - EIPonAHA
KW - frailty
KW - physical activity
KW - nutrition
KW - caregivers
U2 - 10.1016/j.maturitas.2018.06.009
DO - 10.1016/j.maturitas.2018.06.009
M3 - Journal article
VL - 115
SP - 69
EP - 73
JO - Maturitas
JF - Maturitas
SN - 0378-5122
ER -