Can Integrated Care Help in Meeting the Challenges Posed on Our Health Care Systems by COVID-19? Some Preliminary Lessons Learned from the European VIGOUR Project.

Lindner, SonjaKubitschke, LutzLionis, ChristosAnastasaki, MarilenaKirchmayer, UrsulaGiacomini, SimonaDe Luca, VincenzoIaccarino, GuidoIllario, MaddalenaMaddalena, AntonioMaritati, AntonioConforti, DiegoRoba, IsabellaMusian, DanieleCano, AntonioGranell, MonicaCarriazo, Ana MLama, Carmen MRodríguez, SusanaGuligowska, AgnieszkaKostka, TomaszKonijnendijk, AnnemiekeVitullo, MariaGarcía-Rudolph, AlejandroSánchez, Javier SolanaMaggio, MarcelloLiotta, GiuseppeTziraki, CharikliaRoller-Wirnsberger, ReginaVIGOUR consortium2023-02-092023-02-092020-10-191568-4156http://hdl.handle.net/10668/16519The COVID-19 pandemic puts health and care systems under pressure globally. This current paper highlights challenges arising in the care for older and vulnerable populations in this context and reflects upon possible perspectives for different systems making use of nested integrated care approaches adapted during the work of the EU-funded project VIGOUR ("Evidence based Guidance to Scale-up Integrated Care in Europe", funded by the European Union's Health Programme 2014-2020 under Grant Agreement Number 826640).enAttribution 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/COVID-19health careintegrated carepandemic managementsocial carevulnerable patientsCan Integrated Care Help in Meeting the Challenges Posed on Our Health Care Systems by COVID-19? Some Preliminary Lessons Learned from the European VIGOUR Project.research article33132789open access10.5334/ijic.5596PMC7583206http://www.ijic.org/articles/10.5334/ijic.5596/galley/6377/download/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7583206/pdf