title: Adapting the Quebecois method for assessing implementation to the French National Alzheimer Plan 2008-2012: lessons for gerontological services integration.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Many countries face ageing-related demographic and epidemiological challenges, notably neurodegenerative disorders, due to the multiple care services they require, thereby pleading for a more integrated system of care. The integrated Quebecois method issued from the Programme of Research to Integrate Services for the Maintenance of Autonomy inspired a French pilot experiment and the National Alzheimer Plan 2008-2012. Programme of Research to Integrate Services for the Maintenance of Autonomy method implementation was rated with an evaluation grid adapted to assess its successive degrees of completion.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The approaching end of the president's term led to the method's institutionalization (2011-2012), before the implementation study ended. When the government changed, the study was interrupted. The results extracted from that 'lost' study (presented herein) have, nonetheless, 'found' some key lessons.
  It was possible to implement a Quebecois integrated-care method in France. We describe the lessons and pitfalls encountered in adapting this evaluation tool. This process is necessarily multidisciplinary and requires a test phase. A simple tool for quantitative assessment of integration was obtained. The first assessment of the tool was unsatisfactory but requires further studies. In the meantime, we recommend using mixed methodologies to assess the services integration level.
authors: Department of Geriatrics, Université de Rennes 1, Rennes, France.
authors: Dominique
authors: D
authors: Somme
authors: Fondation Nationale de Gérontologie, Paris, France.
authors: Hélène
authors: H
authors: Trouvé
authors: Caisse Nationale de Solidarité pour l'Autonomie, Paris, France.
authors: Catherine
authors: C
authors: Perisset
authors: CHU de Rennes, Rennes, France.
authors: Aline
authors: A
authors: Corvol
authors: Department of Geriatrics, Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin, Laboratoire Santé Environnement Vieillissement, EA 2506, Centre de Gérontologie, Paris, France.
authors: Joël
authors: J
authors: Ankri
authors: Department of Geriatrics, Université Paris-Descartes, Paris, France.
authors: Olivier
authors: O
authors: Saint-Jean
authors: Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin, Laboratoire Santé Environnement Vieillissement, EA 2506, Centre de Gérontologie, Paris, France.
authors: Matthieu
authors: M
authors: de Stampa
keywords: assessment of implementation; geriatric services integration; method of integrated care