ADVANTAGE JA
“A comprehensive approach to promote a disability-free Advanced age in Europe: the ADVANTAGE initiative”
ADVANTAGE is a Joint Action with 22 Member States and 33 organizations involved. It is co-funded by the European Union and the Member States.
ADVANTAGE will build a common understanding on frailty to be used by Member States on which to base a common management approach of older people who are frail or at risk for developing frailty in the European Union. The identification of the core components of frailty and its management should promote the needed changes in the organization and the implementation of the Health and Social Systems to provide those models of care that, stemming from the particular health profile of each Member State (MS), will allow them to face the challenge of frailty within a common framework.
Duration: Start date: 1st January 2017 - End date: 31st December 2019
OBJECTIVES
ADVANTAGE aims at building a common understanding on frailty to be used in all the Member States, by policy makers and other stakeholders, which should be the base for a common management both at individual and population level of older people who are frail or at risk of developing frailty throughout the European Union.
Specific objectives:
- to promote important sustainable changes in the organization and implementation of care in the Health and Social Systems;
- to prepare a common European framework on screening, early diagnosis, prevention, assessment and management of frailty;
- to develop a common strategy on frailty prevention and management, including raising awareness and advocacy among stakeholders, especially policy and decision makers.
TARGET GROUP
The JA has three target groups:
- Policy makers and stakeholders, both from the public and private sectors, involved in planning and developing health and social care policies and strategies for older people. In this group the aim is to create awareness of the need to address the detection, prevention and management of frailty.
- Health and Social care professionals and formal and informal carers. They are in charge of implementing the health and social care policies and strategies at different levels of the systems, in the exchange of knowledge and in the education and training of the workforce. They will implement the necessary changes designed by policy makers into the everyday practice.
- Frail older people and their carers, and those at risk of frailty, and the EU population at large.
EXPECTED OUTCOMES /RESULTS
ADVANTAGE JA will:
- Develop and encourage consensus in the concept of the Prevention of Frailty Approach (FPA) in health and social care services.
- Improve our understanding of long-term medical conditions affecting older patients, including chronic diseases. This will lead to the development and implementation of improved strategies for diagnosis, care, research, and education about frailty, disability and multi-morbidity.
- Contribute to a more effective and sustainable response to the needs of older people, with particular attention to gender sensitive aspects.
- Reduce the burden and inefficiency in care delivery through support for self-management, better care planning and coordination, innovative organisational approaches and better collaboration between professional and informal care.
- These main outcomes will be achieved through two complementary perspectives: A general European framework and a specific MS perspective, which will be aligned with the European one, but implemented according to the local capability and context.
BUDGET
The estimated eligible costs of the action are EUR 5,738,934.60
The grant reimburses 60% of the action's eligible costs (maximum EUR 3,442,591.13)