frAAgiLe
A Digital Approach to Detect and Address Frailty Early
frAAgiLe set out to help care organisations identify frailty risks early and guide personalised interventions. The project created a digital tool tested with therapists and end users, providing essential insights that Ideable later integrated into a broader commercial geriatric assessment platform.
Understanding Frailty to Improve Care
Frailty affects many older adults and increases the risk of dependency. frAAgiLe aimed to support care organisations by offering a structured way to assess frailty and act early. The project brought together researchers, therapists and technology developers to build a tool that could capture different dimensions of frailty and suggest tailored interventions. For Ideable, coordinating the project offered the opportunity to explore how a digital frailty assessment could become part of a scalable, market-ready solution.
From Assessment Concept to Practical Insight
The team focused on identifying which clinical scales best detect frailty and how results should translate into meaningful actions. Therapists and geriatric experts contributed to selecting questionnaires and internation scales, defining thresholds and translating scores into intervention plans. This intensive co-creation helped the consortium understand how to link assessment data with practical recommendations – knowledge that later proved crucial when expanding beyond frailty to a broader geriatric view.
What the Project Achieved and How It Lives On
Although the initial prototype did not reach production due to technical issues and a partner company being acquired, the project generated valuable evidence. Testing with care organisations showed that frailty assessment alone was not enough; organisations also needed cognitive, physical, social and clinical indicators to understand the full picture. Ideable took these insights and developed a more complete geriatric assessment tool, now part of its commercial kwido platform. The frailty knowledge from frAAgiLe directly shaped this module and helped ensure its relevance for real care providers.
Challenges During and After the Project
The project revealed both technical and market barriers. On the technical side, the prototype required more maturity before it could scale. On the market side, there was strong interest in holistic assessment rather than isolated frailty screening. Ideable also faced the challenge of gaining visibility as an SME in a sector where trust and long-term collaboration are essential. Today, the company is expanding internationally (Portugal, Spain, Italy, Poland, etc.) and relies on integrators and partnerships to demonstrate the value of its extended home-care model that comes directly from the frAAgiLe experience.
Outlook: Towards Scalable, Home-Based Support Models
The frAAgiLe experience contributed to Ideable’s current vision of “extended nursing home” or “extended day care” models, where professional support reaches older adults in their homes through digital tools. With kwido now serving around 10,000 users and expected to grow significantly, the foundational work on frailty still plays an important role.
Project Info
frAAgiLe was an AAL project coordinated by Ideable Solutions, aimed at developing a digital tool to assess and address frailty risks among older adults. The project involved care organisations, therapists and researchers, and its insights now feed into Ideable’s commercial kwido geriatric assessment platform.
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