Prisma France: implementation program of an innovation in health and services system for disabled people. Adaptation of a case-management based integration model

• Published in: Revue d'épidémiologie et de santé publique Vol. 56; no. 1; pp. 54 - 62
• Main Authors: Somme, D, Trouvé, H, Couturier, Y, Carrier, S, Gagnon, D, Lavallart, B, Hébert, R, Cretin, C, Saint-Jean, O
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: French
• Published: France 01.02.2008
• Subjects: Case Management; Disabled Persons; France; Health Services Accessibility; Health Services Needs and Demand; Humans; Program Development; France
• ISSN: 0398-7620
• DOI: 10.1016/j.respe.2008.01.003

The French health and services system to maintain at home is characterized by its fragmentation, whereas the need of the people for intervention is generally total. This fragmentation have consequences: delay in services delivery, inadequate transmission of information, redundant evaluation, service conditioned by the entrance point solicited rather than by the need of the person and inappropriate use of expensive resources by ignorance or difficulty of access to the less expensive resources. The purpose of integration is to improve continuity of interventions for people in loss of autonomy. It consists in setting up a whole of organisational, managerial and clinical common tools. Organisational model "Projet et Recherches sur l'Intégration des Services pour le Maintien de l'Autonomie" (Prisma) tested in Quebec showed a strong impact on the prevention of the loss of autonomy in term of public health on a population level. This model rests on six principal elements: partnership, single entry point, case-management, a multidimensional standardized tool for evaluation, an individualized services plan and a system for information transmission. Thus, it was decided to try to implement in France this organisational model. The project is entitled Prisma France and is presented here. The analysis of the context of implementation of the innovation which represents integration in the field of health and services for frail older reveals obstacles (in particular because of diversity of professional concerned and a presentiment of complexity of the implementation of the model) and favourable conditions (in particular the great tension towards change in this field). The current conditions in France appear mainly favourable to the implementation of integration. The establishment of Prisma model in France requires a partnership work of definition of a common language as well on the diagnoses as on the solutions. The strategic and operational dialogue is thus a key element of the construction of integration. This stage currently occurs in parallel in three areas contrasted in France. The results of associated qualitative research should make it possible to define the factors fostering or hindering the realization of integration according to each site (analyzes contrasted) and in all the sites (related to the particular context of care and French services as a whole).