NCT06859489 - Active aGeing And Personalised Service's Ecosystem (AGAPE) Aims to Implement an Advanced Technology Platform That Provides Services to the Elderly, Formal and Informal Caregivers, and Caregiving Organizations | Crick

Overview

AGAPE aims to implement an advanced technology platform that provides services to older adults, formal and informal caregivers, and caregiving organizations.

AGAPE aims to promote an active and healthy lifestyle in the over-65 population and, in parallel, to improve the quality of life of caregivers (by reducing the burden of care), while also overcoming the possible digital literacy gap of users. The advantage of the AGAPE platform is to offer users highly personalized services based on their needs and digital capabilities, and innovative technologies integrated with each other that fit within the spatial services already available in local ecosystems. The project involves an impact-by-design approach that engages older people, caregivers, and managers of care organizations in a co-creation strategy. In addition, the solutions offered by the AGAPE platform will be extensively tested in a preliminary pre-validation phase in order to effectively meet the needs of end users.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

NON_RANDOMIZED

Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

68

Conditions

Older People Digital Health Literacy

Interventions

Active aGeing And Personalised service's Ecosystem (AGAPE)DEVICE

The experimental protocol is structured into two phases: Phase 1 (pre-pilot) - Preliminary assessment of the functionality and usability of the AGAPE platform by older adults and caregivers, divided into: Living lab: Three sessions to progressively explore and test the platform and its services, including workshop activities. Testing phase: Use of the platform in the home environment of older adults for one month. Phase 2 (pilot study) - Evaluation of the platform's impact on the daily lives of older adults, caregivers, and care organizations, with a 12-month involvement for each user.

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 65 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Age ≥ 65 years * Ability to understand the rationale and characteristics of the study and to provide informed consent * Low level of frailty, indicated by a score \<5 on the Rockwood Clinical Frailty Scale (Rockwood et al., 2005) * Absence of moderate to severe cognitive impairment, indicated by a Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) score ≥ 24 (adjusted score; Folstein, 1975) * Absence of severe comorbidities and clinically relevant diseases Exclusion Criteria: * Age below 65 years * Inability to provide informed consent for participation in the study * High level of frailty (Rockwood Clinical Frailty Scale \> 5) * Presence of cognitive impairment (adjusted MMSE score \< 24) * Diagnosed anxiety and depression * Presence of severe disability and serious health conditions

Locations (1)

IRCCS Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi, Firenze

Florence, Italy

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

System Usability Scale (SUS)

Innovation adoption profile transition of the older adult, innovation adoption profile transition of the caregiver, evaluation of usability and technostress levels of the older adult and their respective caregivers in relation to the AGAPE platform, assessed using the SUS scale and the Technostress questionnaire throughout the different phases of the study. Answer: 1 (strongly disagree) - 5 (strongly agree). Minimum= 10 ; Maximum= 50.

Time frame: From the enrollment to the end of treatment at 12 months (T2)

System Usability Scale (SUS)

Innovation adoption profile transition of the older adult, innovation adoption profile transition of the caregiver, evaluation of usability and technostress levels of the older adult and their respective caregivers in relation to the AGAPE platform, assessed using the SUS scale and the Technostress questionnaire throughout the different phases of the study. Answer: 1 (strongly disagree) - 5 (strongly agree). Minimum= 10 ; Maximum= 50.

Time frame: From the enrollment to 6 months (T1)

System Usability Scale (SUS)

Innovation adoption profile transition of the older adult, innovation adoption profile transition of the caregiver, evaluation of usability and technostress levels of the older adult and their respective caregivers in relation to the AGAPE platform, assessed using the SUS scale and the Technostress questionnaire throughout the different phases of the study. Answer: 1 (strongly disagree) - 5 (strongly agree). Minimum= 10 ; Maximum= 50.

Time frame: From the enrollment to 1 month (T0)

Ad Hoc socio-demographic questionnaire

the aim of the questionnaire is recording the socio-demographic charateristics of the sample

Time frame: From the enrollment to 6 months (T1)

Ad Hoc socio-demographic questionnaire

the aim of the questionnaire is recording the socio-demographic charateristics of the sample