Scaling up strategies of the chronic respiratory disease programme of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (Action Plan B3: Area 5)

Action PlanB3 of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP on AHA) focuses on the integrated careof chronic diseases. Area 5 (Care Pathways) was initiated using chronic respiratory diseasesas a model. The chronic respiratory disease action planincludes (1) AIRWAYS integrated carepathways (ICPs), (2) the joint initiative between the Reference site MACVIA-LR (Contre les MAladies Chroniques pour un VIeillissement Actif) and ARIA (Allergic Rhinitis and its Impact on Asthma), (3) Commitments for Action to the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing and the AIRWAYS ICPs network. It is deployed in collaboration with the World Health Organization Global Alliance against Chronic Respiratory Diseases(GARD). The European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing has proposed a 5-step framework for developing an individual scaling upstrategy: (1) what to scale up: (1-a) databases of good practices, (1-b) assessment of viability of the scaling upof good practices, (1-c) classification of good practices for local replication and (2) how to scale up: (2-a) facilitating partnerships for scaling up, (2-b) implementation of key success factors and lessons learnt, including emerging technologies for individualised and predictive medicine. This strategy has already been applied to the chronic respiratory disease action planof the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing.