Effectiveness of integrated person-centered interventions for older people's care: Review of Swedish experiences and experts’ perspective
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2024

Older adults have multiple medical and social care needs, requiring a shift toward an integrated person-centered model of care. Our objective was to describe and summarize Swedish experiences of integrated person-centered care by reviewing studies published between 2000 and 2023, and to identify the main challenges and scientific gaps through expert discussions. Seventy-three publications were identified by searching MEDLINE and contacting experts. Interventions were categorized using two World Health Organization frameworks: (1) Integrated Care for Older People (ICOPE), and (2) Integrated People-Centered Health Services (IPCHS). The included 73 publications were derived from 31 unique and heterogeneous interventions pertaining mainly to the micro- and meso-levels. Among publications measuring mortality, 15% were effective. Subjective health outcomes showed improvement in 24% of publications, morbidity outcomes in 42%, disability outcomes in 48%, and service utilization outcomes in 58%. Workshop discussions in Stockholm (Sweden), March 2023, were recorded, transcribed, and summarized. Experts emphasized: (1) lack of rigorous evaluation methods, (2) need for participatory designs, (3) scarcity of macro-level interventions, and (4) importance of transitioning from person- to people-centered integrated care. These challenges could explain the unexpected weak beneficial effects of the interventions on health outcomes, whereas service utilization outcomes were more positively impacted. Finally, we derived a list of recommendations, including the need to engage care organizations in interventions from their inception and to leverage researchers’ scientific expertise. Although this review provides a comprehensive snapshot of interventions in the context of Sweden, the findings offer transferable perspectives on the real-world challenges encountered in this field.

person-centered care

Sweden

older people

integrated care

Författare

Mariam Kirvalidze

Karolinska Institutet

Anne Marie Boström

Karolinska Institutet

Research and Development Unit

Karolinska universitetssjukhuset

Ann Liljas

Karolinska Institutet

Megan Doheny

Karolinska Institutet

Anne Hendry

University of the West of Scotland

International Foundation for Integrated Care (Scotland Hub)

Brendan McCormack

Faculty of Medicine and Health

Laura Fratiglioni

Karolinska Institutet

Stiftelsen Stockholms Läns Aldrecentrum

Sulin Ali

Karolinska Institutet

Universität Duisburg-Essen

Zahra Ebrahimi

Göteborgs universitet

Sölve Elmståhl

Lunds universitet

Maria Eriksdotter

Karolinska universitetssjukhuset

Karolinska Institutet

Pascal Gläske

Karolinska Institutet

Universität Duisburg-Essen

Lena Karin Gustafsson

Mälardalens högskola

Åsa Hedberg Rundgren

Stiftelsen Stockholms Läns Aldrecentrum

Helena Hvitfeldt

Norrtälje Sjukhus

Carin Lennartsson

Institutet för social forskning

Karolinska Institutet

Lena Marmstål Hammar

Mälardalens högskola

Högskolan i Dalarna

Gunnar H. Nilsson

Karolinska Institutet

Peter Nilsson

Myndigheten för vård- och omsorgsanalys

Joakim Öhlén

Sahlgrenska universitetssjukhuset

Göteborgs universitet

Anna Sandgren

Linnéuniversitetet

Annika Söderman

Faculty of Medicine and Health

Karl Swedberg

Göteborgs universitet

Nicoline Vackerberg

Tekniska högskolan i Jönköping

Davide Liborio Vetrano

Karolinska Institutet

Stiftelsen Stockholms Läns Aldrecentrum

Helle Wijk

Göteborgs universitet

Sahlgrenska universitetssjukhuset

Chalmers, Arkitektur och samhällsbyggnadsteknik, Byggnadsdesign

Janne Agerholm

Karolinska Institutet

Amaia Calderón-Larrañaga

Stiftelsen Stockholms Läns Aldrecentrum

Karolinska Institutet

Journal of Internal Medicine

0954-6820 (ISSN) 1365-2796 (eISSN)

Vol. 295 6 804-824

Ämneskategorier

Omvårdnad

Gerontologi, medicinsk/hälsovetenskaplig inriktning

Folkhälsovetenskap, global hälsa, socialmedicin och epidemiologi

DOI

10.1111/joim.13784

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2024-05-25