Integrated care for older people (‎ICOPE)‎: Handbook: guidance for person-centred assessment and pathways in primary care

Matteo Cesari, Jill Keeffe, Elsa Dent, Naoki Kondo, Arunee Laiteerapong, Mikel Izquierdo, Peter Lloyd-Sherlock, Luis Miguel Gutiérrez-Robledo, Catherine McMahon, Serah Ndegwa, Hiroshi Ogawa, Hélène Payette, Ian Philp, Leocadio Rodriguez Mañas, John Starr, Kelly Tremblay, Michael Valenzuela, Bruno Vellas, Marjolein Visser, Kristina Zdanys

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Abstract

The 2015 World report on ageing and health defines the goal of healthy ageing as helping people to develop and maintain the functional ability that enables wellbeing. Functional ability is defned as the “health-related attributes that enable people to be and to do what they have reason to value”. Functional ability consists of the intrinsic capacity of the individual, the environment of the individual and the interactions between them. Intrinsic capacity is “the composite of all the physical and mental capacities that an individual can draw on” (1).This concept of healthy ageing inspires a new focus for health care in older age – a focus on optimizing people’s intrinsic capacity and functional ability as they age.
Original languageEnglish
PublisherWorld Health Organization
Number of pages96
Publication statusPublished - 2019

Keywords

  • integrated care
  • older people
  • World Health Organization (WHO)
  • healthy ageing
  • wellbeing

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