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Sustainable Tailored Integrated Care for older people in Europe

The SUSTAIN project aims to improve integrated care for older people living at home with multiple health and social care needs. It will last four years and is divided into three interrelated phases (preparation, research implementation, and translation to products). A European multidisciplinary partnership has come together to improve established integrated care initiatives for this […]

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Can assisted living work in Europe?

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Everyone is familiar with the idea of a retirement village, but they are relative newcomers in any form to Europe and the common perception first popularised in 1950s America is out-dated. In those days, retirement meant receiving the proverbial gold watch at 65 and moving somewhere cheaper, joining a like-minded community with a golf course,

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Innovative Financing Opportunities for Healthy Ageing

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The conference “Innovative Financing Opportunities for Active and Healthy Ageing” looked at how to leverage public and private financial instruments to maximise synergies in the area of active and healthy ageing. In particular, it focused on the EU financial instruments, the investment plan for Europe, joint procurement of innovative solutions and new ways of public-private co-investments

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Reducing the burden of chronic diseases

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While much has been done in terms of health promotion and primary prevention of chronic diseases across Europe, there are still gaps and needs that require urgent attention, according to a new report from the Joint Action on Addressing Chronic Diseases and Healthy Ageing across the Life Cycle (JA-CHRODIS). The report provides a comparative overview of

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Technology for older people living at home

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This report identifies and maps technology-based services which have successfully enhanced the independent living of older adults at home in and outside Europe. It identifies 14 services that effectively address issues such as improving the productivity of carers, enabling better quality care and generating savings, contributing to the financial sustainability of long-term care systems. To

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How to empower people to manage their own health

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In the context of population ageing and economic pressures, improving older people’s knowledge and skills in healthy lifestyles, managing diseases and navigating their way through the health system, is crucial. This ‘health literacy’ is the subject of a European project: “Intervention Research on Health Literacy among Ageing Population” (IROHLA) which is taking stock of on-going health literacy

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Dementia: Self Sustaining Communities

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May 2014. Our annual conference showcased award winning innovative initiatives and projects from across Europe and the UK, aimed to better support people with dementia living in the community or care home environment. The programme includes speakers’ details, and the presentations below are listed in the order they appear on the programme: Brainport Development Alexian Research Center

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