SHAPES: Supporting Multimorbid Older People

Summary

The Smart \& Healthy Ageing through People Engaging in Supportive Systems (SHAPES) Innovation Action is a Horizon 2020, EU-wide project looking at how technology can enable the older population to live healthier lives at home. It involves the development, piloting and deployment of a large scale, EU-standardised open platform. This platform will integrate with a wide-range of technological, organisational, clinical, educational and societal solutions seeking to facilitate long-term healthy and active aging.

Within this project are 7 pilot themes investigating various potential uses of the platform, in Northern Ireland we are leading on medicines control and optimisation.

This pilot is focused on identifying, managing and improving deficiencies in adherence to medicines and treatments of older individuals living with permanent or temporary reduced functions or capabilities due to chronic, age-related illnesses and living at home. Digital Solutions (including blood pressure monitors, pulse oximeters, weight scales and glucometers) will be used to enable self-monitoring of the individual's physiological parameters. Data will also be used to develop an algorithm to help predict decompensations in participants with heart failure and dynamic personal ranges will also be developed. In the future this may enable early opportunities to adjust medicines and treatments so as to deliver safer and more effective use of medicines in-home, however, in this pilot there will be no changes to treatment.

The target population is composed of older individuals (+65 years) living at home with heart failure and/or diabetes. We aim to recruit 30 people (for 3 months) to our pilot in Northern Ireland. We are working closely with colleagues in Spain, Czech Republic, Cyprus and Germany to run similar pilots within their healthcare systems.

Conditions

• Heart Failure
• Diabetes
• Diabetes Mellitus

Interventions

DEVICE

SHAPES app

Participants will be asked to use the app and connected devices daily for 3 months.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Mid and East Antrim Agewell Partnership (MEAAP)

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• University of Nicosia

  collaborator OTHER

• Vicomtech

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• TREE Technology S.A.

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• National University of Ireland, Maynooth

  collaborator OTHER

• Gnomon Informatics S.A.

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Edgeneering LDA

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Fraunhofer-Institute of Toxicology and Experimental Medicine

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Ulster

  collaborator OTHER

• Prof Michael Scott

  lead OTHER_GOV

Principal Investigators

• Michael Scott · Northern Health and Social Care Trust

Study Design

Allocation

NA

Purpose

OTHER

Masking

NONE

Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age

60 Years

Max Age

100 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2023-02-09

Primary Completion

2023-06-16

Completion

2023-06-16

Countries

• United Kingdom

Study Locations