Training on the WHO ICOPE approach
(Integrated Care for Older People)
The innovative aspect of this approach is threefold:
Empower older people to take an active role in their health by encouraging them to self-monitor their functions.
Use new technologies for assess and monitor their functions.
Change care hab its by proposing care based on functional status rather than organ-specific disease.
This training includes modules based on WHO recommendations developed by international experts using robust data from the scientific literature.
The ICOPE program:
The ICOPE program targets autonomous people aged 60 and over. It is based on screening and monitoring of six essential functions for maintaining autonomy: vision, hearing, memory, mobility, psychological health and nutrition, as well as the assessment of 3 important factors that may influence health: social care and support, support for carers and urinary continence..
This program includes 4 steps:
The ICOPE program relies on primary care professionals. The care plan is based on local community ressources and involves local stakeholders from the healthcare sector as well as the social and medico-social sectors.
Training Plan
This training consists of teaching videos and learning videos on geriatrics assessments.
The training is divided into two parts:
Step
1
Intended for diverse audiences, including healthcare professionals.
- Introduction: healthy ageing, how to maintain functions.
- WHO ICOPE Program: objectives and process of Step 1 (screening).
- Practical scenario: how to carry out Step 1 and key points to watch.
- Presentation of the ICOPE program to older people.
- Content of the digital applications for screening and follow-up.
- Monitoring of functions and direction towards Step 2.
Step
2
In-depth assessment for healthcare professionals.
- Mobility assessment
- Nutrition assessment
- Cognitive assessment
- Psychological health assessment
- Vision assessment
- Hearing assessment
- Social assessment
- Urinary continence assessment
- Support and assistance for social care and support, social carers
- Simulation of scale administration: SPPB, MNA and MMSE
- Medication-related iatrogenesis
Who are we?
IHU HealthAge, WHO collaborating center for Frailty, Clinical Research and Training in Geriatrics, was commissioned by the French Ministry of Solidarity and Health to develop ICOPE program as part of the national Article 51 ICOPE experiment.
