A Multi-Domain Group-Based Intervention to Promote Physical Activity, Healthy Nutrition, and Psychological Wellbeing in Older People with Losses in Intrinsic Capacity: AMICOPE Development Study

Sergi Blancafort Alias, César Cuevas-Lara, Nicolás Martínez-Velilla, Fabricio Zambom-Ferraresi, Maria Eugenia Soto, Neda Tavassoli, Céline Mathieu, Eva Heras Muxella, Pablo Garibaldi, Maria Anglada, Jordi Amblàs, Sebastià Santaeugènia, Joan Carles Contel, Àlex Domingo and Antoni Salvà Casanovas
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Sergi Blancafort Alias: Fundació Salut i Envelliment (Foundation on Health and Ageing)—UAB, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08041 Barcelona, Spain
César Cuevas-Lara: Navarrabiomed, Geriatrics Department, Hospital Complex of Navarra (CHN)—Public University of Navarra (UPNA), Navarra Health Research Institute (IdisNa), 31008 Pamplona, Spain
Nicolás Martínez-Velilla: Navarrabiomed, Geriatrics Department, Hospital Complex of Navarra (CHN)—Public University of Navarra (UPNA), Navarra Health Research Institute (IdisNa), 31008 Pamplona, Spain
Fabricio Zambom-Ferraresi: Navarrabiomed, Geriatrics Department, Hospital Complex of Navarra (CHN)—Public University of Navarra (UPNA), Navarra Health Research Institute (IdisNa), 31008 Pamplona, Spain
Maria Eugenia Soto: Equipe Régional Vieillissement et Prévention de la Dépendance, Gérontopôle, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Toulouse, 31300 Toulouse, France
Neda Tavassoli: Equipe Régional Vieillissement et Prévention de la Dépendance, Gérontopôle, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Toulouse, 31300 Toulouse, France
Céline Mathieu: Equipe Régional Vieillissement et Prévention de la Dépendance, Gérontopôle, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Toulouse, 31300 Toulouse, France
Eva Heras Muxella: Ageing and Health Department in the Andorran Healthcare System, Servei Andorrà d’Atenció Sanitaria, AD700 Escaldes-Engordany, Andorra
Pablo Garibaldi: Ageing and Health Department in the Andorran Healthcare System, Servei Andorrà d’Atenció Sanitaria, AD700 Escaldes-Engordany, Andorra
Maria Anglada: Ageing and Health Department in the Andorran Healthcare System, Servei Andorrà d’Atenció Sanitaria, AD700 Escaldes-Engordany, Andorra
Jordi Amblàs: Chronic Care Program, Department of Health, Generalitat de Catalunya, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
Sebastià Santaeugènia: Chronic Care Program, Department of Health, Generalitat de Catalunya, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
Joan Carles Contel: Chronic Care Program, Department of Health, Generalitat de Catalunya, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
Àlex Domingo: Fundació Salut i Envelliment (Foundation on Health and Ageing)—UAB, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08041 Barcelona, Spain
Antoni Salvà Casanovas: Fundació Salut i Envelliment (Foundation on Health and Ageing)—UAB, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08041 Barcelona, Spain

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 11, 1-13

Abstract: The World Health Organization has developed the Integrated Care of Older People (ICOPE) strategy, a program based on the measurement of intrinsic capacity (IC) as “the composite of all physical and mental attributes on which an individual can draw”. Multicomponent interventions appear to be the most effective approach to enhance IC and to prevent frailty and disability since adapted physical activity is the preventive intervention that has shown the most evidence in the treatment of frailty and risk of falls. Our paper describes the development of a multi-domain group-based intervention addressed to older people living in the community, aimed at improving and/or maintaining intrinsic capacity by means of promoting physical activity, healthy nutrition, and psychological wellbeing in older people. The process of intervention development is described following the Guidance for reporting intervention development studies in health research (GUIDED). The result of this study is the AMICOPE intervention (Aptitude Multi-domain group-based intervention to improve and/or maintain IC in Older PEople) built upon the ICOPE framework and described following the Template for Intervention Description and Replication (TIDieR) guidelines. The intervention consists of 12 face-to-face sessions held weekly for 2.5 h over three months and facilitated by a pair of health and social care professionals. This study represents the first stage of the UK Medical Research Council framework for developing and evaluating a complex intervention. The next step should be carrying out a feasibility study for the AMICOPE intervention and, at a later stage, assessing the effectiveness in a randomized controlled trial.

Keywords: ageing; methods; frailty; exercise; nutrition; psychosocial intervention; mental health; lifestyle; guidelines (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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