E-health at the Service of Ageing Well with the ICOPE Program (WHO)

For the World Health Organization (WHO), healthy ageing is a right that must be offered to the population. The WHO has identified six key functions (mobility, nutrition, vision, hearing, cognition, psychology) that define a person's intrinsic capacity and are considered necessary for maintaining independence as people age. A dependency prevention program called ICOPE (Integrated Care for Older People) has been developed with the aim of intervening early when one of the 6 functions is altered before the alteration is irreversible. The program is based on the implementation of an integrated care pathway with 4 steps. 

After developing the tools necessary for the identification and evaluation of functions (steps 1 and 2), Néda Tavassoli's project proposes to develop tools to monitor the personalized prevention and follow-up interventions of the WHO's ICOPE program (steps 3 to 4). 

The interest of the tools will be evaluated in a mixed approach combining qualitative research and quantitative descriptive research. 

The overall long-term objective of the project is to delay the loss of autonomy of seniors by facilitating their follow-up by caregivers (digital tools for the management of the ICOPE pathway) and by improving the adherence of seniors to a preventive approach (e-learning platform).