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Integrated Care for Older People: Guidelines on Community-Level Interventions to Manage Declines in Intrinsic Capacity. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2017.

Acknowledgements

These ICOPE guidelines were coordinated by the World Health Organization (WHO) Department of Ageing and Life Course. Islene Araujo de Carvalho, Jotheeswaran Amuthavalli Thiyagarajan, Yuka Sumi and John Beard oversaw the preparation of this document, with thanks to Susanna Volk for administrative support.

WHO acknowledges the technical contributions of the guideline development group (GDG). In alphabetical order: Emiliano Albanese (WHO Collaborating Centre, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland); Olivier Bruyère (University of Liège, Liège, Belgium); Matteo Cesari (Gérontopôle, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Toulouse, Toulouse, France); Alan Dangour (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland); Amit Dias (Goa Medical College, Goa, India); Astrid Fletcher (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom); Dorothy Forbes (University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada); Anne Forster (University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom); Mariella Guerra (Institute of Memory, Depression and Related Disorders, Lima, Peru); Jill Keeffe (WHO Collaborating Centre for Prevention of Blindness, Hyderabad, India); Ngaire Kerse (University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand); Qurat ul Ain Khan (Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan); Chiung-ju Liu (Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America); Gudlavalleti V.S. Murthy (Indian Institute of Public Health, Hyderabad, Madhapur, India); Serah Nyambura Ndegwa (University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya); Joseph G. Ouslander (Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, United States); Jean-Yves Reginster (University of Liège, Liège, Belgium); Luis Miguel F. Gutiérrez Robledo (Institutos Nacionales de Salud de México, Mexico City, Mexico); John F. Schnelle (Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, United States); Kelly Tremblay (University of Washington, Seattle, United States); Jean Woo (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China). Special thanks go to the chair of the GDG, Martin Prince (King’s College London, London, United Kingdom).

The WHO Department of Ageing and Life Course would like to express its appreciation to the external review group: A.B. Dey (All India Institute of Medical Science, New Delhi, India); Minha Rajput-Ray (Global Centre for Nutrition and Health, Cambridge, United Kingdom); Sumantra Ray (Medical Research Council, Cambridge, United Kingdom); Richard Uwakwe (Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Nigeria).

The department would like to thank the ICOPE guidelines steering group: Said Arnaout (WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean); Anjana Bhushan (WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific); Alessandro Rhyl Demaio (WHO Department of Nutrition for Health and Development); Shelly Chadha (WHO Department for Management of Noncommunicable Diseases, Disability, Violence and Injury Prevention); Tarun Dua (WHO Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse); Manfred Huber (WHO Regional Office for Europe); Silvio Paolo Mariotti (WHO Department for Management of Noncommunicable Diseases, Disability, Violence and Injury Prevention); Maria Alarcos Moreno Cieza (WHO Department for Management of Noncommunicable Diseases, Disability, Violence and Injury Prevention); Alana Margaret Officer (WHO Department of Ageing and Life Course); Juan Pablo Peña-Rosas (WHO Department of Nutrition for Health and Development); Anne Margriet Pot (WHO Department of Ageing and Life Course); Ritu Sadana (WHO Department of Ageing and Life Course); Céline Yvette Seignon Kandissounon (WHO Regional Office for Africa); Maria Pura Solon (WHO Department of Nutrition for Health and Development); Mark Humphrey Van Ommeren (WHO Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse); Enrique Vega Garcia (WHO Regional Office for the Americas); Temo Waqanivalu (WHO Prevention of Noncommunicable Diseases Management Team).

The WHO Department of Ageing and Life Course is grateful to the members of the WHO systematic review team: Alessandra Stella (Independent Consultant, Rome, Italy); Kralj Carolina (King’s College London, London, United Kingdom); Meredith Fendt-Newlin (King’s College London, London, United Kingdom).

King’s College London, London, United Kingdom, supported the development of the ICOPE guidelines by providing staff to work on the systematic reviews and assisting in the management of the GDG. King’s College London did not receive any external funding for engaging with WHO on the development of these guidelines. Finally, the peer-reviewers are due thanks for their thoughtful feedback of a preliminary version of these guidelines.

The WHO Department of Ageing and Life Course acknowledges the financial support of the Government of Japan for the development of the ICOPE guidelines.

Donors do not fund specific guidelines and do not participate in any decision related to the guideline development process, including for the composition of research questions, the memberships of the guideline groups, the conduct and interpretation of systematic reviews, or the formulation of the recommendations.

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