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.

older people

Sweden

person-centered care

integrated care

Författare

Mariam Kirvalidze

Karolinska Institutet

Anne Marie Boström

Karolinska universitetssjukhuset

Karolinska Institutet

Stockholms Sjukhem

Ann Liljas

Karolinska Institutet

Megan Doheny

Karolinska Institutet

Anne Hendry

International Foundation for Integrated Care ((IFIC))

University of the West of Scotland

Brendan McCormack

The University of Sydney

Laura Fratiglioni

Stiftelsen Stockholms Läns Äldrecentrum

Karolinska Institutet

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 universitet

Åsa Hedberg Rundgren

Stiftelsen Stockholms Läns Äldrecentrum

Helena Hvitfeldt

Norrtälje Sjukhus

Carin Lennartsson

Karolinska Institutet

Stockholms universitet

Lena Marmstål Hammar

Mälardalens universitet

Högskolan i Dalarna

Gunnar H. Nilsson

Karolinska Institutet

Peter Nilsson

Myndigheten för vård- och omsorgsanalys

Joakim Öhlén

Göteborgs universitet

Sahlgrenska universitetssjukhuset

Anna Sandgren

Linnéuniversitetet

Annika Söderman

Faculty of Medicine and Health

Karl Swedberg

Göteborgs universitet

Nicoline Vackerberg

Tekniska högskolan i Jönköping

Davide Liborio Vetrano

Stiftelsen Stockholms Läns Äldrecentrum

Karolinska Institutet

Helle Wijk

Chalmers, Arkitektur och samhällsbyggnadsteknik, Byggnadsdesign

Göteborgs universitet

Sahlgrenska universitetssjukhuset

Janne Agerholm

Karolinska Institutet

Amaia Calderón-Larrañaga

Karolinska Institutet

Stiftelsen Stockholms Läns Äldrecentrum

Journal of Internal Medicine

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

Vol. 295 6 804-824

Ämneskategorier (SSIF 2011)

Omvårdnad

Gerontologi, medicinsk/hälsovetenskaplig inriktning

Folkhälsovetenskap, global hälsa, socialmedicin och epidemiologi

DOI

10.1111/joim.13784

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2026-05-21