Active & Healthy Ageing

Are we being ambitious enough? Deliverables under the EIP on Active and Healthy Ageing

Health in Europe 2020

Europe 2020 flagships for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth

Innovation Union

New Skills and New Jobs

Digital Agenda

Youth on the Move

New Industrial

Policy

Platform against Poverty

Resource Efficiency

• innovation for tackling societal challenges, e.g. ageing and health

• innovation for addressing the weaknesses & removing obstacles in the European

innovation system

Innovation Union

• ICTs for tackling societal issues - ageing, health care delivery

• sustainable healthcare & ICT-based support for dignified & independent living

Digital Agenda for

Europe

European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing

EIP on Active and Healthy Ageing

APPROACH: • Ownership of key stakeholders

• High-level political commitment

• Very large-scale deployment & innovation

• Awareness and best-practice sharing across Europe

• Combining demand and supply sides of innovation

• Building on existing instruments and new ones

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Sustainable &

efficient

healthcare systems

Growth & expansion of

EU industry

Health & quality of

life of European

citizens

+2 Healthy Life Years by 2020 Triple win for Europe

Priorities

To make an impact on new paradigm at EU level we need to…

Operate in real world

Learn from experience

Share & scale-up best solutions

Allocate funding

Influence policy at EU level

Support research

Collection of Good Practices Scaling-up innovative solutions

500 Commitments

32 Reference Sites

Alignment of EC funding

Advocacy & visibility

Improving prescriptions and adherence to treatment

Better management of health: preventing falls

Preventing functional decline and frailty

Integrated care for chronic conditions, inc. telecare

ICT solutions for independent living & active ageing

Age-friendly cities and environments

EIP on Active & Healthy Ageing

specific actions

Deliverables Mapping of best practices Better professinal coooperation Practical toolkits

Implementation on large scale

Innovation for Age-friendly buildings, cities & environments Action Group

• implement innovative solutions to develop environments that are more age-friendly and promote active and healthy living

• multi-disciplinary group is working at a regional and local level, as well as in an EU context, to analyse integrated approaches to urban design, housing, services and businesses and explore new ways to promote active and healthy ageing

Action Group Innovation for age-friendly buildings, cities and environments –2012-2015

• Adapting Environments to the challenge of ageing populations

• Understanding how ICT and Service innovations can help shape supportive environments ;

• Running pilots to analyse integrated approaches to urban design, housing, health and social services, age-friendly workplaces, ICT and smart environments;

• Setting up mechanisms to engage the older person and ensure their participation in society;

• Exploring new ways to promote active and healthy ageing with age friendly environments.

Good Practices Age friendly-environments 2013

62 good practices- 32 regions, 12 Member States

Cluster Living environments - 31 good practices: Ambient Assisted Living, Housing and Urban Environment.

Cluster Active Ageing in the community - 16 good practices: Age-friendly businesses, Voice of Older People, Transportation

Cluster Active & Healthy Lifestyles - 10 good practices, physical activity and tourism

Cluster Dementia Supportive Environments -5 good practices community support and solutions

Link: https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/eipaha/library/index/show/filter/actiongroups/id/729

• Urban Environments-integrated assited living areas integrating a number of sectors including transport, housing, health & care in the Netherlands

• Ambient Assited Living Solution operation evaluation and replciation of anew ICT enabled assisted living scheme in Spin

• Housing- adpating social housing in France using innovative financing

• Age-friendly businesses and services- recognition scheme of SMES to provide more age-friendly services in Ireland

• Voice of Older Person- engaging older people in older people's fora in the UK

• Transport-development of personalised transport scheme in Portugal

• Tourism- tourism packages targeted at older people in Spain & Portugal

• Physical Activity- walking groups in communities in Italy

• Dementia supportive environments-programme to support people stay active in the community for longer in Ireland

Actions: close up

Mutual learning

• We may not be very strong in everything

but we are in some

• Where we have a gap

others are experts

• Collectively

we know a lot & we have a rich range of good practices

Learn by others' success…and mistakes Avoid duplications time and resources-consuming Shorten the learning curve to adapt a good practice

Challenges Identified

• Lack of funding

• Lack of coordination among different levels of government

• Lack of political commitment in this field.

• Lack of knowledge and expertise of age-friendly environment concept

• Lack of older people involvement in the development of age friendly programmes

Lessons learned

• Local & Regional Authorities-sharing experience on stakeholder alliances and in partnership with older people 50+ forums-finding partnerships and funding opportunities for initiatives

• Becoming an age-friendly environment is high on the agenda of a majority of towns, Priority = adapting public space (cities& towns), social inclusion (regions)

• Highlighting good-practices -promote an online repository for good practices and evidence-based guidelines

Outlook

• Draft guidance tools on urban design, housing, transport, tourism, ICT solutions

• Adapting and developing principles and a guide on age-friendly environments in an EU context

• Age-friendly Environments Innovation Network (AFE–Innovnet) Project (Launched February 2014): Thematic network (TN) support LRAs & other stakeholders –Mobilisation of stakeholders

• WHO/EC Age-friendly Environments in Europe Project (Launched end of 2013): Adapting WHO age friendly environment guidelines to an EU context

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EC/WHO Age-friendly environments in Europe (AFEE)

A joint project between WHO/Europe and the European Commission, DG

Employment, Social Affairs & Inclusion

Goal: creating tools and guidance for local and regional authorities to make

strong commitments to become more age-friendly and to measure their

progress towards this objective

• Avoid fragmentation between the age-friendly environments initiatives

• Adapt the WHO age-friendly environment guidelines to an EU context (In

line with the D4 Action Areas & cities active in the EIP)

• Developing a monitoring system (EIP monitoring)

• Learn from the case studies (notable practices)

Link: http://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/Life-stages/healthy-

ageing/activities/age-friendly-environments-in-europe-afee

AFE-INNOVNET Thematic Network

• Set up a large EU wide community of local and regional authorities and other relevant stakeholders across the EU who want to work together to find smart and innovative evidence based solutions to support active and healthy ageing and develop age-friendly environments across the EU.

Link: http://www.afeinnovnet.eu

This project is funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP), grant agreement n° 620978

Objectives

More than 140 members in the network

Applied to be the Affiliated Programmes to the WHO

GNAFC

Supporting a participatory aoppraoch

Developing a repository of notable and replicable practices

Facilitating pilot projects clustering

Webinars: Still available via You Tube -

http://www.afeinnovnet.eu/library

Further Details

Short video EIP on AHA