CO-ACT – Co-Designing Adaptive Care Transformations for Aging Communities

CO-ACT – Co-Designing Adaptive Care Transformations
for Ageing Communities

CO-ACT project aims:

1. To
adapt and expand scalable, transferable and interlinked solutions that connect
various components of the health and care continuum.

2. To
actively engage diverse communities and stakeholders in co-creation processes
to ensure inclusivity, equity and relevance of solutions.

3. To
share project insights and improve collaboration, enabling mutual learning and
the co-creation of transformative approaches to healthcare ecosystems.

The CO-ACT project develops solutions with older adults,
professionals, families, and local communities.

Project implementation in practice: 
The project is structured around four
interconnected work packages which ensure that the created solutions are
evidence-based, tested in real-life settings, sustainable and transferable across the project countries.

Work Package 1: Mapping health and care ecosystems (Lead:
University of Galway):
The project begins by mapping existing services,
stakeholders, and care pathways in the participating countries.

Work Package goals:

• To develop ecosystem maps that provide a structured overview of the
  health and care context for older adults in each participating region.
• To develop a repository of exemplar health and care solutions with the
  potential for scale-up and adaptation across diverse health and care settings
  in Europe.
  
  

Work Package 2: Testing innovations in living labs (Lead:
JAMK University of Applied Sciences)
The project continues with a real-world testing phase.
Existing local communities in each country act as living labs, where
solutions are co-designed and implemented together with stakeholders. 

Work Package goals:

• To optimize health and care pathways by implementing and adapting
  solutions in living labs across diverse healthcare ecosystems in EU member
  states.
• To evaluate the implementation process, assessing feasibility,
  usability, acceptability, and equity through a systems approach to understand
  broader ecosystem dynamics.

Throughout the process, older adults remain
central with special attention paid to equity, accessibility and
inclusivity.

Work Package 3: Sharing knowledge and scaling solutions
(Lead: NOVA University of Lisbon)
The project creates and enhances long-term sustainable impact and scalability throught its activities.

Work Package goals:

• To ensure long-term impact and accessibility of project outcomes by
  developing dissemination strategies, including toolkits, training programs, and
  a knowledge exchange platform.
• To provide evidence-based scalability and transferability
  recommendations through cross-lab analyses, stakeholder workshops, and systemic
  mapping of adoption factors.
  
  

Work Package 4: Project coordination and quality
management (Lead: HU University of Applied Sciences)
Project management ensures on-going coordination and quality actions.

• Effective
  collaboration, transparent management, and high-quality implementation across
  all partners. 
• Project management handbook and quality management tools
  support systematic progress and accountability.