SUSTAIN: optimising care for older patients living at home
Professor of Applied Health Research Jenny Billings discusses the ‘trailblazing’ SUSTAIN project in a new short video taken at a recent project partners’ meeting in Oxford.
SUSTAIN aims to improve established integrated care (IC) initiatives for older people living at home with multiple health and social care needs; and to ensure that these improvements can be adapted and applied to other European health systems and regions.
Funded by EU Horizon 2020, the project is developing tools to evaluate the implementation of sustainable IC systems across Europe. Jenny leads on developing the methods and ‘ensuring everyone works in a consistent way with the evaluation tools we’re developing’.
In a real departure from normal research, SUSTAIN uses implementation science to focus not just on outcomes, but much more on process and ‘what’s really going on’ in IC. The SUSTAIN team are heavily involved at the local sites with designing the interventions and measurement instruments.
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