European Innovation Partnership
on
Active and Healthy Ageing
Medical Technologies - Solutions to the grand
societal challenge of healthy ageing
Jorge Pinto Antunes
Innovation for Health and Consumers
European Commission, DG SANCO
EUROPE 2020
• → UPDATE OUR VISION TO POST-CRISIS WORLD
& IMPROVE DELIVERY
European Innovation Partnership on
Active and Healthy Ageing
+2 HEALTHY LIFE YEARS
EU citizens healthier, more active & independent until
old age
Social & health care systems more sustainable, dynamic
& efficient
Competitiveness & market growth of innovations in
ageing sector fostered
The Challenge of Ageing
Demographic change
600
450
300
200%
177,3%
150%
86,4%
100%
150
2,0%
0
50%
% change
population in mio
Demographic projections 2008-2060
0%
"+65"
2008
"+80"
2060
Total population
% change
Source: SANCO, based on Ageing Report 2009
Total aged-related public spending
(education, pensions, healthcare, LTT, unemployment benefits)
23,1 % p. of GDP in 2007
by 4.75% points of GDP by 2060
Health & care innovation
Innovation in material sciences, genetics, bio-technology &
bioinformatics & e-health
Technological change as a driver for improved productivity &
economic growth
Substitution of old treatments with novel ones
 productivity gains, improved health outcomes
Expansion of innovative treatments
 => demand & supply match,  diagnosed &treated patients,
improved health outcomes
Business & growth opportunities for pharmaceutical, medical
devices & products sectors
…BUT also EMPOWERMENT OF CITIZENS AND PATIENTS
EIP Added value
FACILITATING SCALING UP & MULTIPLYING
JOINING UP
RESOURCES
&
EXPERTISE
BRIDGING
GAPS
&
SPEEDING UP
INNOVATION
PROCESS
IMPROVING FRAMEWORK CONDITIONS
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
Specific priority actions
Health
literacy,
patient
empowerment
, ethics &
adherence
programmes,
based on
innovative tools
& services
Disease
prevention,
older people
vaccination ,
early
diagnosis of
functional &
cognitive
decline &
malnutrition
Innovation
enabled
personal
guidance
systems
Capacity
building &
replicability
of successful
integrated
care
systems
based on
innovative
tools &
services
Flexible &
interoperable
ICT
solutions for
active &
independent
living
Prescription
adherence
action at
regional level
Earlydiagnosis &
intervention
action on
frailty &
malnutrition to
prevent
functional
decline among
older people
Programme
for falls
prevention
Replicating
and tutoring
integrated
care for
chronic
diseases,
including
remote
monitoring,
at regional
level
Global
standards
development,
guidelines for
business
models and
financing for
independent
living
solutions
Horizontal action areas
General approach to evidence and data/ Monitoring
Knowledge transfer and good practice sharing and exchange/ Marketplace for partnering & matching
stakeholders
Innovation in support of age-friendly cities and environments
Next steps
• 2 & 6 Dec 2011 - presentation of the SIP
in the Council (COMPET/EPSCO)
• Early 2012 - first calls for commitment
• Early 2012 - EC Communication
THANK YOU
FOR YOUR ATTENTION
Please visit the EIP website:
http://ec.europa.eu/active-healthyageing