European Innovation Partnership on
Active and Healthy Ageing
Orsi Nagy
Innovation for Health and Consumers, DG SANCO
30 May 2012
600
200%
177,3%
450
150%
86,4%
300
100%
150
50%
2,0%
0
% change
population in mio
Demographic projections 2008-2060
0%
"+65"
"+80"
2008
2060
Total population
% change
Source: SANCO, based on Ageing Report 2009
Life Expectancy (LE) 2008-2060
LE vs. HLY (2010)
89
80,8
84,5
82,1
2008
61,3
74,3
60,1
HLY
76
LE
2060
LE at birth w omen
LE at birth men
Women
Men
Europe: Some facts and figures
• Total health spending
EU average of 9.6% of GDP in 2008
• Total age-related spending: Education, pensions,
healthcare, unemployment benefits
Increase by 4.75% points of GDP by 2060
• Shrinking workforce in the care sector and an
insufficient number of health specialists
Ageing an opportunity
• Europe 2020 flagship initiatives
• European Year for Active Ageing and Solidarity
between Generations in 2012
• EU Health Strategy “Together for health’’
Europe 2020 flagship initiatives
Boost growth, among others:
• The Innovation Union
• Digital Agenda for Europe
• New Skills for New Jobs
• European Platform against Poverty and Social Exclusion
European Year for Active Ageing and
Solidarity between Generations in 2012
Raising awareness that active ageing can give the
opportunity to:
• Stay in the workforce and share experience
• Keep playing an active role in society
• Live as healthy and fulfilling lives as possible.
EIP on AHA: Objectives and headline target
Headline target by 2020
• Increasing the number of healthy life years (HLYs) by 2
in the EU on average
A triple win for Europe
• Enabling EU citizens to lead healthy, active and
independent lives until old age
• Improving the sustainability and efficiency of social
and health care systems
• Developing and deploying innovative solutions, thus
fostering competitiveness and market growth
Collaborative innovation
Bringing together
interested stakeholders
from public and private
sectors across the entire
innovation value cycle
To cooperate, share one
same vision and aim to
deliver innovative solutions
for an ageing society,
Responding to their needs
and demands
Aligning
Synergies
Overlap
Coordination
Duplication
Use efficiency
Replacement
Optimisation
Three-step process stakeholder involvement
CONSULTATI
ON
Public consultation
• 524 submissions
DEVELOPMEN
T
Steering Group Workshops
• Mapping of research
• Care&Cure
• Prevention, early diagnosis
• Active ageing & independent living
Fiches with actions
• 127 submissions
IMPLEMENTATIO
N
Strategic
Implementation Plan
• Steering Group 7th of
November 2011
Strategic Framework of the EIP on AHA
Horizontal issues
•Regulatory and standardisation conditions
•Effective funding
•Evidence base, reference examples, repository for age-friendly
innovation
•Marketplace to facilitate cooperation among various stakeholders
Prevention, screening
& early diagnosis
•Health literacy, patient
empowerment, ethics and
adherence
Care & Cure
•Guidelines for care,
workforce
(multimorbidity,
polypharmacy, frailty
and collaborative care)
•Personal health
management
•Multimorbidity and R&D
•Prevention, early
diagnosis of functional
and cognitive decline
•Capacity building and
replicability of successful
integrated care systems
Active ageing &
independent living
•Assisted daily living for
older people with
cognitive impairment
•Flexible and
interoperable ICT
solutions for active and
independent living
•Innovation improving
social inclusion of older
people
Vision / Foundation
•New paradigm of ageing
•Focus on holistic and multidisciplinary approach
•Innovation in service of the elderly people
•Development of dynamic and sustainable care
systems of tomorrow
Criteria for ‘a priority action area’
•
Greatest contribution to the objectives of the
partnership
•
Benefiting particularly from the partnership
approach
•
Significantly contributing to overcoming key
bottlenecks & barriers
•
Facilitating innovation in an area where European
industry has or may develop a competitive advantage
•
Being the most ready to launch
• Prescription and adherence action at regional level.
• Personalised health management, starting with a Fall
Prevention Initiative
• Action for prevention of functional decline and frailty with
first action focused on physiological frailty and malnutrition
• Replicating and tutoring integrated care for chronic
diseases, including remote monitoring at regional level
• Development of interoperable independent living solutions,
including guidelines for business models
• Thematic marketplace: innovation for age friendly
buildings, cities and environments
EC Communication
• Adopted 29th February 2012
• Commission’s response to the Strategic Implementation
Plan (SIP) and commitment to its implementation
• Key elements:
 Setting up the necessary support framework
- Favourable regulatory framework
- Effective funding mechanisms
- Marketplace: evidence base, data and innovative ideas
 Support at national, regional and local level
 Launching actions on the ground
 Monitoring and assessment of progress
 Governance for effective implementation
Activities: Launching actions on the ground
WHY GET INVOLVED?
• Learn from the others’ good practice
• Combine evidence
• Collaboration leading to efficiency in (re-)design and validation of
innovative care services
• Efficiency of design leading to expansion of services to larger
population - with the same level of investment
• Strengthen your ability to find funding at local/national level
• Local industry seeing a larger market, beyond the “local border”
• Political support
Activities: Launching actions on the ground
From April
2012
From 29 February
to 31 May
HOW TO GET INVOLVED:
1) Invitation for Commitment
=> submit your commitment to be an active partner in the
implementation of one or more Specific Actions
2) Invitation for expression of intent to be a candidate
'reference site'
=> European locations implementing a substantial number of the
Specific Actions in an integrated way
3) Marketplace for innovative ideas
=> interested, but not yet ready to submit a commitment to a
Specific Action
Activities: Invitation for Commitments
Commitment – A measurable and concrete engagement in support
of a Specific Action, towards the target deliverables of the SIP
Criteria for Commitments:
1. Engagement – underwriting the EIP and its criteria
2. Inclusiveness and Partnership - widely involving all relevant actors
3. Delivery – delivering according to planning and agreed outcomes
4. Critical mass – mobilising sufficient resources
5. Advocacy - inspiration and political support
Submission via a web tool on the EIP site (http://ec.europa.eu/active-healthy-ageing)
All submitted Commitments will be made publicly available
Activities: Invitation for Expression of Intent
to be a candidate Reference Site
Reference Sites:
 regions, cities or integrated hospitals/care organisations
 established in a geographical location in Europe
 provide a comprehensive innovation based approach to active and
healthy ageing
 provide concrete example of existing and successful integrated
solutions, based on evidence of their impact in practice
 expected to contribute significantly to building the synergies
between the different Partnership Actions
Submission via a web tool on the EIP site (http://ec.europa.eu/active-healthy-ageing)
All submitted Commitments will be made publicly available
Activities: Marketplace for innovative ideas
An interactive online platform, open to all stakeholders willing to get
involved in the Partnership
For those who:
 are interested in the EIP, but not yet ready to submit a Commitment
to a Specific Action
 wish to find partners, build networks and develop a Commitment
are eager to be kept up to date with initiatives, events, and share with
others what is on the agenda
offer innovative ideas and expertise which they are ready to share with
wider public through social media
Thank you for your attention
https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/eipaha