Personnes âgées à domicile avec limitations fonctionnelles: étude préliminaire d'une intervention centrée sur le bien-être et l'autonomie.

Abstract

In the context of demographic aging, preventing autonomy loss is a major issue. Adapting care systems to help keep seniors at home is a daily challenge."La Mutualité Française", a national mutual insurance company, has implemented in one of its healthcare services an innovative program to strengthen well-being: "The Well-Being Autonomy Pole." This program comprises five Prevention and Support Care components and hypothesizes that strengthening the well-being of elderly people already suffering from physical limitations would prevent their autonomy decline.The originality of this program is its focus on elderly people who have rarely been studied in terms of preventing autonomy loss, given their existing functional limitations.A first evaluation was carried out over three months to verify the methodological feasibility of an impact assessment and to provide preliminary results on the effectiveness of the program. Key findings suggest improved levels of self-esteem, physical well-being, psychological autonomy and decreased anxiety. Methodological limitations of this first feasibility assessment and perspectives for future research are discussed.