National Care for the Elderly Programme
Netherlands
April 2008- April 2012
20 million Euros
www.nationaalprogrammaouderenzorg.nl
Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport
The National Care for the Elderly Programme is designed to ensure that care and support for frail elderly people are arranged (or rearranged) in such a way that it caters better for their demands. Those demands differ from one individual to another, and may encompass medical, psychological and social problems. Integrated care and coordination between the various parties involved should ultimately lead to improved patient outcomes for the elderly themselves.
Main focus is frail elderly persons.
Main topics of the experiments and projects:
- Screening and diagnosis
- Improvement of primary care
- Reactivation after hospitalisation
- Integrated care
- Community support and social network
- Participation of frail elderly
- Cost-effectiveness
- Support and education of professionals involved in the care and support of frail elderly persons
Health & Performance, Education & Learning, Social Systems & Welfare
The endpoints of the programme will primarily take the form of added value for the elderly themselves: tailored care that allows them to remain more self-reliant, retain more functions and make less use of care, and reduces their care/treatment burden. In addition, the programme aims to provide added value for professionals and for society.
The programme consists of three subsequent steps. The first step involves the formation of regional networks. These networks comprise of all parties that can contribute to the organisation of care and support for frail elderly persons, including health care providers, welfare and informal care organisations, insurers, local authorities, and associations for the elderly. The second step is for the regional networks to develop innovative transition experiments and research projects. The final step is the dissemination and implementation of knowledge.
A minimum set of outcome measures is agreed for use in the evaluation of all transition experiments and projects so that outcomes to be compared. These outcome measures are multimorbidity, subjective health, ADL functioning, social functioning, psychological functioning, quality of life and use of care.
All parties that can contribute to the organisation of care and support for frail elderly persons, including health care providers, welfare and informal care organisations, insurers, local authorities, and associations for the elderly.
Subsidiary round 1 (2008) – 8 networks (± 6 million euro), 3 experiments (± 8 million euro) and 3 research projects (± 2 million euro)
Subsidiary round 2 (2009) – 5 experiments (± 12 million euro), 8 research projects (± 6 million euro), and 2 implementation projects (± 1 million euro)
Subsidiary round 3 (2009) – 5 experiments (± 10 million), 8 research projects (± 3 million euro), and 3 implementation projects (± 2 million euro)
Subsidiary round 4 (2010) – 4 experiments (± 5 million), 12 research projects (± 5 million euro), and 5 implementation projects (± 2 million euro)
Subsidiary round 5 (2010/2011) – 8 grants for implementation and sustaining of networks (± 1,6 million euro) and 2 grants for national implementation strategies (± 4 million euro)
Subsidiary round 6 (2011) – 10 educational projects (± 500.000 Euro)
Not applicable, it’s a national programme
ZonMw (The Netherlands organisation for health research & development)
Team 3 – Long Term care
Karianne
Jonkers
Dr.
Programme officer
Laan van Nieuw Oost-Indië 334, The Hague, The Netherlands
+31 70 349 5339
jonkers@zonmw.nl
www.nationaalprogrammaouderenzorg.nl
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