Active aGeing And Personalised Service's Ecosystem (AGAPE) Aims to Implement an Advanced Technology Platform That Provides Services to the Elderly, Formal and Informal Caregivers, and Caregiving Organizations

Don Carlo Gnocchi Onlus Foundation

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Digital Health Literacy; Older People

Treatments: Device: Active aGeing And Personalised service's Ecosystem (AGAPE)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06859489

AGAPE

Details and patient eligibility

About

AGAPE aims to implement an advanced technology platform that provides services to older adults, formal and informal caregivers, and caregiving organizations.

Full description

AGAPE aims to promote an active and healthy lifestyle in the over-65 population and, in parallel, to improve the quality of life of caregivers (by reducing the burden of care), while also overcoming the possible digital literacy gap of users. The advantage of the AGAPE platform is to offer users highly personalized services based on their needs and digital capabilities, and innovative technologies integrated with each other that fit within the spatial services already available in local ecosystems. The project involves an impact-by-design approach that engages older people, caregivers, and managers of care organizations in a co-creation strategy. In addition, the solutions offered by the AGAPE platform will be extensively tested in a preliminary pre-validation phase in order to effectively meet the needs of end users.

Enrollment: 68 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 65+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age ≥ 65 years
• Ability to understand the rationale and characteristics of the study and to provide informed consent
• Low level of frailty, indicated by a score <5 on the Rockwood Clinical Frailty Scale (Rockwood et al., 2005)
• Absence of moderate to severe cognitive impairment, indicated by a Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) score ≥ 24 (adjusted score; Folstein, 1975)
• Absence of severe comorbidities and clinically relevant diseases

Exclusion criteria

• Age below 65 years
• Inability to provide informed consent for participation in the study
• High level of frailty (Rockwood Clinical Frailty Scale > 5)
• Presence of cognitive impairment (adjusted MMSE score < 24)
• Diagnosed anxiety and depression
• Presence of severe disability and serious health conditions

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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68 participants in 4 patient groups

primary end-users

Experimental group

Description:

The Agape platform will offer a series of customized and integrated services to meet the needs of end users, including: 1. promotion of a healthy and active lifestyle; 2. socialization services; 3. digital health literacy service.

Treatment:

Device: Active aGeing And Personalised service's Ecosystem (AGAPE)

formal caregiver

Other group

Description:

formal caregivers are social operators with different background. The service provides support to formal caregivers in defining and updating the patient's activity plan over time, ensuring it adapts to their needs.

Treatment:

Device: Active aGeing And Personalised service's Ecosystem (AGAPE)

informal caregiver

Other group

Description:

Informal caregivers will be able to receive notifications of any anomalies on their devices and, if necessary, draw the attention of the formal caregiver.

Treatment:

Device: Active aGeing And Personalised service's Ecosystem (AGAPE)

Tertiary end users

Other group

Description:

Tertiary end users (i.e., care organizations, local authorities, municipalities). The Agape platform will offer a series of customized and integrated services to meet the needs of end users, including: 1. promotion of a healthy and active lifestyle; 2. socialization services; 3. digital health literacy service.

Treatment:

Device: Active aGeing And Personalised service's Ecosystem (AGAPE)