One in five person will be 60 years of age or older by 2050 ( 1). In 2017, there were about 962 million people aged 60 and over, comprising 13% of the global population. This is due to the rapid increase in the proportion of older people linked in particular to longer life expectancy and decreased fertility. The number of people aged 65 and over will be greater than the number of children under 5 years old ( 3). The Inspire platform aims to develop an integrative approach to promote novel new technologies for the assessment and monitoring of functional capacities.Ĭurrently there is an unprecedented rapid change in global demographic, so far the number of young children was higher than older people but within a few years this balance will be reversed. The French ethic committee approved the study. Once IC decline is identified, participants will have a thorough clinical assessment and blood sampling to investigate the response of markers of ageing at the time of decline. Using the ICOPE tool IC domains will be monitored every 4 months.
The Inspire Platform will gather clinical data and bio-specimens from 1000 subjects in the Occitania Region, of different ages (from 30 years and over) over 10 years. The study will be also testing the implementation and follow up of the ICOPE tool. The main objective of the INSPIRE study is to build a Bio-resource Research Platform for Healthy Ageing gathering biological, clinical and digital resources in order to identify markers of ageing, age-related diseases and IC evolution. We believe that the ICOPE integrated care program will also be a pragmatic way to maintain cognitive functions and detect early Alzheimer. This article aims to present this new tool and to presents its innovative implementation at the Toulouse University Hospital through the INSPIRE study.
The new Geroscience field is focusing on preventing age-related diseases, and should now investigate with the ICOPE tool the optimal maintenance of intrinsic capacity (IC) through mobility, cognition, psychology, vitality, hearing and vision. The ICOPE tool proposes step by step, a screening, a fine assessment, the development of a personalized care plan, its implementation and follow up and finally the consideration of the caregivers and community. This is an integrated individual care tool focused on the individual and healthy ageing. The World Health Organization has published the Integrated Care for Older People, ICOPE handbook Guidance on person-centred assessment and pathways in primary care.
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