Health Promotion Community-based Intervention Among Elderly People Through Self-managed MAHA Mobile App.

Summary

The GATEKEEPER project, funded by the European Commission's HORIZON 2020 innovation framework, aims to ensure healthier independent living for ageing populations. To this end, GATEKEEPER aims to develop an open, European-wide, standards-based, interoperable and secure platform, available to all stakeholders (healthcare professionals, technology companies and users), offering digital solutions on the Internet of Things, Big Data or Artificial Intelligence, or new techniques, for early detection and personalised interventions to ensure healthier independent living for ageing populations.

GATEKEEPER will demonstrate its value by scaling up innovative solutions, during a 48-month work plan that will involve 40.000 elderly citizens, as well as authorities, institutions, companies, associations and academic centres from 8 pilot regions in 7 EU Member States. The pilots sites will deploy and demonstrate the effect, benefit, value and scalability of GATEKEEPER solutions around reference use cases covering primary, secondary and terciary prevention in the Basque Country (Spain), Aragon (Spain), Attica and Central Greece (Greece), Cyprus (Cyprus), Lodz (Poland), Milton Keynes (UK), Puglia (Italy) and Saxony (Germany).

The Basque Country pilot site is involved in the Reference Use Cases focused to "Lifestyle-related early detection". The intervention aims to encourage active and healthy ageing by the use of a self-managed mobile application, thereby to enhance independence, autonomy and improve the well-being of older people, promoting their physical, cognitive and mental activity and social participation. This quasi-experimental and longitudinal study is target to 10,000 older people and/or their caregivers from the Basque Country region. A multi-channel and community-based recruitment strategy at Basque regional level has been designed that involves 39 community-based organizations from the Basque Health Ecosystem.

Conditions

• Healthy
• Chronic Disease

Interventions

OTHER

GATEKEEPER intervention

Agents will identify candidates in their areas of work (e.g., associations of elderly people). Training sessions will be held for healthcare professionals and community agents. Dissemination of materials, resources, and channels to contact and inform candidates to invite them to participate in the study. Recruitment procedures posters, leaflets, videos, newsletters, or appointments will be used. Candidates interested and accepted will download the application on their mobile devices and will surf on the app which pretends to promote healthy aging. Users will provide some data and complete questionnaires (available in the application) for the baseline and final assessment. Professionals will visualize how and how much participants are interacting by using the MAHA dashboard.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Basque Health Service

  collaborator OTHER_GOV

• Biosistemak Institute for Health Systems Research

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Ane Fullaondo Zabala · Biosistemak Institute for Health Systems Research

Study Design

Allocation

NA

Purpose

OTHER

Masking

NONE

Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age

65 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2022-04-20

Primary Completion

2022-12-31

Completion

2023-12-31

Countries

• Spain

Study Locations