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- ICT-Supported Interventions Targeting Pre-frailty: Healthcare Recommendations from the Personalised ICT Supported Service for Independent Living and Active Ageing (PERSSILAA) StudyPublication . O’Caoimh, R.; Molloy, D.W.; Fitzgerald, C.; Velsen, L.V.; Cabrita, M.; Nassabi, M.H.; Vette, F.; van Weering, M.D.; Jansen-Kosterink, S.; Kenter, W.; Frazer, S.; Rauter, A.P.; Turkman, A.; Antunes, M.; Turkman, F.; Silva, M.S.; Martins, A.; Costa, H.S.; Albuquerque, T.G.; Ferreira, A.; Scherillo, M.; De Luca, V.; Abete, P.; Colao, A.; García-Rudolph, A.; Sanchez-Carrion, R.; Sánchez, J.S.; Aguilera, E.J.G.; Illario, M.; Hermens, H.; Vollenbroek-Hutten, M.As society ages, healthcare systems are preparing for an increasing prevalence of frail, co-morbid and older community-dwellers at risk of adverse outcomes including falls, malnutrition, hospitalisation, institutionalisation and death. Early intervention is desirable and pre-frailty, before onset of functional decline, may represent a suitable transition stage to target, albeit evidence for reversibility and appropriate interventions are limited. No consensus on the definition, diagnosis or management of pre-frailty exists. This work describes 25 healthcare related findings from the recently completed PERsonalised ICT Supported Service for Independent Living and Active Ageing (PERSSILAA) project, funded under the 2013–2016 European Union Framework Programme 7 (grant #610359). PERSSILAA developed a comprehensive Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)-supported platform to screen, assess, intervene and then monitor community-dwellers in two regions (Enschede in the Netherlands and Campania in Italy) in order to address pre-frailty and promote active and healthy ageing, targeting three important pre-frailty subdomains: nutrition, cognition and physical function. Proposed definitions of pre-frailty, ICT-based approaches to screen and monitor for the onset of frailty and targeted management strategies employing technology across these domains are described. The potential of these 25 healthcare recommendations in the development of future European guidelines on the screening and prevention of frailty is explored.
- NUTRIAGEING: combining science, cooking and agriculturePublication . Silva, M.S.; Ferreira, A.; Sousa, L.; Costa, H.S.; Albuquerque, T.G.; Silva, M.A.; Sanches-Silva, A.; Martins, A.; Turkman, A.; Turkman, F.; Antunes, M.; Rauter, A.P.There are three main behavior traits that have been associated with human health status: to be physically active, to be mentally active and to eat well. These are the main topics addressed by PERSSILAA, an European Project focused on the development and validation of a new service model, to screen for and prevent frailty in older adults, integrating nutrition, physical and cognitive function. Nutrition plays an important role all over our life span, especially in older adults. The importance of nutrition education and the impact of consumer misinformation about the benefits of these food choices becomes clear with the recognition that nutritional status influences the rate of physiologic and functional decline with age. Helping people to choose more nutritive food that will contribute to maintain good health, improve their cognitive function, increase their energy levels and prevent their frailty. There are several available websites related to nutrition targeting the older adult population. However, some are not user friendly and eHealth literacy is still seen as a major obstacle to the uptake of ICT technologies in the health sector. The development of an interactive and user-friendly website providing information, advice and simple services focused on the nutritional status of elderly people, was a most needed task. The NUTRIAGEING website has emerged to address this need. It was created to be a major platform for the transfer of scientific knowledge into advice to the general public, integrated in the PERSSILAA platform. It will offer several modules to promote healthier nutrition, to educate the population on how to improve food habits, and on how to grow a vegetable garden. It will be structured around healthy eating, cooking recipes with videos, and vegetable gardens.
- PERSSILAA Project-An Innovative Approach to Nutritional Education for Older AdultsPublication . Martins, A.; Turkman, A.; Ferreira, A.; Turkman, F.; Antunes, M.; Silva, M.S.; Sousa, L.; Costa, H.S.; Albuquerque, T.G.; Sanches-Silva, A.; Vollenbroek-Hutten, M.; Rauter, A.P.Demographic ageing is a global trend and frailty is highly prevalent among older adults, which constitutes a major health problem. PERSSILAA (PERsonalised ICT Supported Service for Independent Living and Active Ageing) is a unique European project that develops and validates a new service model, to screen for and prevent frailty in community dwelling older adults. This multimodal service integrates nutrition, physical and cognitive function and is supported by an interoperable ICT service infrastructure. A multidisciplinary team from 5 countries, The Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Portugal and Ireland, is providing a unique combination of skills to develop remote services for screening, monitoring and training modules aiming to contribute to good health habits on the nutritional, physical and cognitive domains. This communication will give a special focus to the work developed by the Portuguese team in this project, comprising also the design of an interactive nutrition website.