The EU-funded STAGE project aims to demonstrate the importance and feasibility of a life-course approach to prevent accelerated ageing, as defined by the accumulation of multi-morbidity (two or more chronic health conditions). We will integrate this knowledge into transferable person-centred solutions for early diagnosis and screening, treatment and long-term management of multi-morbidity. The goal is to add healthier years to people’s lives.
During the first 18 months since the project launched, the STAGE consortium has:
- Identified and mapped the ethical, legal, social and historical aspects of healthy ageing interventions that should be taken into account when developing them
- Defined the initial features for a Neighbourhood Healthy Ageing Index
- Drafted a handbook entitled ‘A protocol to define the types of multi-morbidity’ for use in the project
- Reviewed and developed protocols to characterise biological ageing in European population-based cohorts and biobanks
- Through co-creation and public engagement, designed and customised the integration of AI and technology for person-centred prevention and care, including AI prediction models, personalised decision support tools and patient-facing apps
- Established the Ageing Deal network of projects focused on healthy ageing
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This project is led by Principle Investigator Professor Sylvain Sebert – thank you for providing this update.
Pictured: STAGE team at the project’s annual consortium meeting in May 2025, Barcelona.