European Innovation for
Active and Healthy Ageing
Design for All Workshop and ENSA Elderly and Disability
thematic networks
Jan Komarek
European Commission
DG Information Society and Media
17th May 2012
Demographic Ageing –
From Challenge to Opportunity
Social Necessity
Major Opportunity
Dependency Ratio
Empowerment
•From 1:4 to 1:2
•80+ doubles by 2025
•Active Ageing
Cost of Care
New Care Models
•Up by 4-8 % of GDP by
2025
•Integrated care
Human Resources
Growth and Markets
•Shrinking work force
•Lacking 20 million carers by
2020
•3000 B€ Wealth
•85 Million Consumers and
growing
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•Large Efficiency gains
From curing diseases to improved
functioning
Innovation and Ageing
Flexible
Work
Work
Volun
teering
Social
Inclusion
Age Friendly
Environments
Community
Public
Services
Prevention
Home
Integrated
Care
Independent
Living
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How can Innovation Contribute?
• It is all about partnerships and
changing mindsets
• Society: From them to us
• Policy: From burden to opportunity
• Industry: From long-tail to first
movers
• ICT can help achieving the Triple
Win
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Ageing Well
The EU Picture
Active and Healthy Ageing Partnership
New
Knowledge
More Years Better Lives
Alzheimer’s
Policy Areas
JPIs
New solutions Evidence
and
Proven Ideas
innovation
guidelines
Deployment support
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Public Health Programme
FP7
Health
eHealth action plan
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FP7
eHealth
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FP7 ICT &
Ageing well
Research
CIP eHealth
Ageing well action plan
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AAL
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Struc
tural
Funds
EIB
ESF
CIP ICT &
Ageing well
Innovation
Deployment
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Natio
nal
funds
European Innovation Partnership
on Active and Healthy Ageing
bringing together
interested stakeholders
from public and private
sectors
across the entire
innovation value cycle
to cooperate, share same
vision and aim to deliver
innovative solutions for an
ageing society,
responding to their needs
and demands
At scale
HEADLINE TARGET
+2 HEALTHY LIFE YEARS
by 2020
A TRIPLE WIN FOR EUROPE
Improving
health & quality of life of European
citizens, incl. older people
Supporting
long-term sustainability & efficiency of
Europe’s health and social care systems
Fostering
growth & expansion of EU industry
Added value of the Partnership
FACILITATING SCALING UP & MULTIPLYING
JOINING UP
RESOURCES
&
EXPERTISE
BRIDGING
GAPS &
SPEEDING UP
INNOVATION
PROCESS
IMPROVING FRAMEWORK CONDITIONS
Building synergies
Existing EU funding tools
Optimisation
Aligning
Synergies
Duplication
Overlap
Coordination
Replacement
Use efficiency
Steering
Group
Commissioners
(Health, Digital Agenda)
European
Parliament
Regions
Council of the EU/
Member States
Academic/
Expert
Patients’
organisation
STEERING
GROUP
Hospitals/
Providers
Finance/
Investment
Older people
organisation
Industry
Insurers
Out-of- box
Programmes/
Financial Instruments
(AAL, JPI, e-health)
(ICT, pharmaceuticals, food,
medical devices, telecoms)
Health Workforce
Developing the Strategic Implementation Plan
Stakeholders
Workshops
…
Strategic
Implementation
Plan building
blocks
EIP specific
actions
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Strategic Framework of the Partnership
Strategic Implementation Plan
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
Specific Action
Falls prevention
HOW
AIM
DELIVERABLE
•validated
programmes on
early diagnosis &
prevention of
falls in at least 10
EU countries & 15
regions
•innovative tools for
screening of risk factors
•European network of
ideas, actors,
programmes, good
practices
•assessment tools,
evidence based
standards, best practice
guidelines for falls
prevention
• identification of
risk factors of falls
and injuries of
older people
•reduced falls of
older people
• older citizen as a
co-producer of
his/her own
health
Specific Action
Integrated care models for chronic conditions
HOW
DELIVERABLE
•programmes for
chronic conditions in
>50 regions, available
to >10% of target
population
•replication/scale-up
of proven & effective
interested care
models in at least 20
regions in 15 MSs
• scalable, reproducible
organisational models for
integrated care
AIM
•trainings/coaching of
end-users
• communication &
integration between
different health &
social care providers
•evaluation mechanisms
for assessment of good
operational practices in
integrated care models
• reduction of
avoidable &
unnecessary
hospitalisation
of older patients
•networks of stakeholders
•improved
performance of care
systems serving
older people
Conclusions
• Demographic change is a major challenge but
can be turned into a large opportunity through
innovation
• Ageing and innovation a major priority for the
EU, large investments are made (>1 Billion €)
• Join the movement and the EIP as well as the
other initiatives
Thank you for your attention
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EU ICT and Ageing Well Initiatives
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ICT Policy Support Programme
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Ambient Assisted Living
Joint Programme
http://ec.europa.eu/einclusion
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/ict_psp/index_en.htm
http://www.aal-europe.eu/
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More Years – Better Lives
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Active and Healthy Ageing Partnership
http://www.jp-demographic.eu
http://ec.europa.eu/active-healthy-ageing