GERONTE H2020 project - GERDAT004 - Dataset of self-management recommendations

<strong>The present document is a dataset generated as part of Deliverable D1.1. of the GERONTE project, which has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Programme under Grant Agreement N°945218. It aims to provide the geriatric oncology professional community with a dataset of self-management recommendations that can be used in the care for older patients with cancer and multimorbidity.</strong> GERONTE is a 5-year research and innovation project (April 2021 to Mars 2026) funded by the European Union within the framework of the H2020 Research and Innovation programme, in response to the health societal challenge topic SC1-BHC-24-2020 “Healthcare interventions for the management of the elderly multimorbid patient”. The overall aim of GERONTE is to improve quality of life - defined as well-being on three levels: global health status, physical functioning and social functioning- for older multimorbid patients, while reducing overall costs of care. To this end, GERONTE will co-design, test, and prepare for deployment an innovative cost-effective patient-centred holistic health management system, hereafter referred to as the GERONTE intervention. GERONTE intervention will rely on an ICT based application for real-time collection and integration of standardised clinical and home patient-reported data. GERONTE intervention will be demonstrated in the context of care of multimorbid patients having cancer as a dominant morbidity, and be adaptable to any other combination of morbidities. Patient empowerment by supporting self-management is an important component of the Geronte care pathway. As patients will be monitoring themselves at home, to register side-effects of treatment, decompensation of comorbidities and signs of functional decline, they will also be faced with questions about how to deal with the issues that they are having. While one important component of the care pathway is early signalling of complications to allow for early intervention by health care professionals, there is also a lot that patients can do for themselves at home to enhance their life-style, decrease burden of signs and symptoms or to improve outcomes. This led to the composition of a dataset to be included in the GERONTE care pathway, which is presented here.