Leader: Giuseppe Belelli (UNIMIB); Other collaborator(s): Andrea Corsonello (INRCA), Gessica Sala (UNIMIB)
1. To identify from international databases, systematic reviews and metanalyses the risk factors and the multicomponent interventions that are effective to prevent the functional and cognitive decline in hospitalized older patients;
2. To implement technological solutions at the hospital wards in order to improve the livability and safety of the environment, to improve the communication between patients and staff and the flow of clinical information within the staff, to facilitate the diagnosis of geriatric syndromes (e.g., delirium, sarcopenia) and to monitor the physical activity and prevent muscle mass loss among older adults at risk;
3. To improve the management of polypharmacy and counteract its risks among hospitalized older patients; 4. To identify the personalized multicomponent, technological, robotic, pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions that are supposed to be appropriate and to assess their efficacy to counteract the functional and cognitive decline in hospitalized older patients at risk.