Digital Health Service for Identification of Frailty Risk Factors in Community-Dwelling Older Adults

Digital Health Service for Identification of Frailty Risk Factors in Community-Dwelling Older Adults

Category:
User Experience

Net4Age Ontology Terms:
aging , autonomy , citizen , healthcare , impairment , people , place , wellbeing

Description:

Study protocol of a nationwide multicentric study in seven Italian regions aimed at assessing the effectiveness of a digitally supported approach for the early screening of frailty risk factors in community-dwelling older adults.

Overview: 
Study protocol of a nationwide multicentric study in seven Italian regions aimed at assessing the effectiveness of a digitally supported approach for the early screening of frailty risk factors in community-dwelling older adults

Objectives: 
SUNFRAIL is a prospective observational cohort study aimed at carrying out a multidimensional assessment of community-dwelling older adults through an IT platform, which allows to connect the items of the SUNFRAIL frailty assessment tool with a cascading multidimensional in-depth assessment of the bio-psycho-social domains of frailty. Seven centers in seven Italian regions will administer the SUNFRAIL questionnaire to 100 older adults.

Initiatives: 
wide range of pilots considered and good time frame of the longitudinal study protocol
Shortcomings: 
Need to scale it up going beyond national border having an international benchmark
Relevance: 
4
Relevance Description: 
Very relevant to provide an overview, based on a scientific study, about the detection of frailty in older population
Quality: 
4
Opinion: 
Useful for the WG1 purpose
Overlap: 
No
Overlap Detail: 
Sources: 
https://www.mdpi.com/2152350
Keywords: 
risk, frailty, older people, multi centric study protocol
Email: 
oscarzanutto@gmail.com