A Rapid Review on the Success Factors for Mobilising Personalised Care with Frail Older Adults

This rapid review provides an overview of the evidence around the factors that influence successful cultural change that ensure the mobilisation of personalised care plans for frail older adults or older adults with multiple morbidities. This rapid review has been produced for the Aging Well stewardship team developed by the Mid and South Essex Health and Care Partnership. This review involved a systematic search for academic research that address the question: what factors influence a team’s success in implementing personalised care plans for frail older adults with frailty and other long-term conditions? Ten studies published since 2014 were analysed. The search strategy, inclusion and exclusion criteria are detailed in the methodology section. The rapid review reports on the factors discussed in the studies for successful change to implementing personalised care and using person-centred approaches. These factors are (1) planning and goal setting, (2) monitoring and evaluation, (3) inclusivity in care, (4) training and development, (5) adaptability and flexibility of services, (6) use of a biopsychosocial model, and (7) provision of resources. Most of these factors can be implemented to support staff members adopt personalised care in their everyday work. This review may also interest future research aimed to investigate the most effective factors and how to operationalise the success factors in different contexts, including a cultural change in personalised care for frail older adults.