The community assessment of risk and treatment strategies (CARTS): An integrated care pathway to manage frailty and functional decline in community dwelling older adults

  • R. O’ Caoimh
  • , Elizabeth Weathers
  • , Ruth Hally
  • , Ronan O’ Sullivan
  • , Carol Fitzgerald
  • , Nicola Cornally
  • , Anton Svendrovski
  • , Elizabeth Healy
  • , Elizabeth O’Connell
  • , Gabrielle O’Keeffe
  • , Patricia Leahy Warren
  • , Brian D. Daly
  • , Roger Clarnette
  • , Suzanne Smith
  • , Niamh Cipriani
  • , Rodd Bond
  • , Francesc Orfila
  • , Constança Paúl
  • , D. William Molloy

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Abstract

The Community Assessment of Risk & Treatment Strategies (CARTS) is an evolving integrated care pathway for community-dwelling older adults, designed to screen for and prevent frailty through the use of innovative, novel targeted risk screening instruments, comprehensive geriatric assessment, tailored interventions and integrated patient-centred multi-disciplinary monitoring. This multimodal service aims to positively affect risk and frailty transitions, to reduce adverse healthcare outcomes and achieve the European Innovation Partnerships on Active and Healthy Ageing’s (EIP-AHA) goal of improved healthy life years. The CARTS programme builds on the activities and deliverables defined within Action Plan A3 of the EIP-AHA ‘Prevention and early diagnosis of frailty, both physical and cognitive, in older people’, aiming to use information and communications technology (ICT) to facilitate its implementation in clinical practice. The CARTS instruments have been piloted in Ireland as well as in Portugal, Spain and Australia. An update on the research conducted to date and future plans are presented.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInformation and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health - 1st International Conference, ICT4AgeingWell 2015, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsMartina Ziefle, Markus Helfert, Andreas Holzinger, John O’Donoghue, Ana Fred, Carsten Röcker
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages3-18
Number of pages16
ISBN (Print)9783319276946
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015
Event1st International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health, ICT4AgeingWell 2015 - Lisbon, Portugal
Duration: 20 May 201522 May 2015

Publication series

NameCommunications in Computer and Information Science
Volume578
ISSN (Print)1865-0929

Conference

Conference1st International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health, ICT4AgeingWell 2015
Country/TerritoryPortugal
CityLisbon
Period20/05/1522/05/15

Keywords

  • Assessment
  • Community-Screening
  • Frailty
  • Integrated care pathways
  • Risk

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