Actions required to implement integrated care for older people in the community using the World Health Organization's ICOPE approach: A global Delphi consensus study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Integrated care is recognised as an important enabler to healthy ageing, yet few countries have managed to sustainably deliver integrated care for older people. We aimed to gather global consensus on the key actions required to realign health and long-term systems and integrate services to implement the World Health Organization (WHO) Integrated Care for Older People (ICOPE) approach.

Methods

A two-round eDelphi study, including a global consultation meeting, was undertaken to identify, refine and generate consensus on the actions required across high-, middle- and low-income countries to implement the WHO ICOPE approach. In round 1, a framework of 31 actions, empirically derived from previous WHO evidence reviews was presented to panellists to judge the relative

SUBMITTER: Briggs AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6181385 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature