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Profiling perceived knowledge, relevance and interest across geriatric topics of health and social care professionals: multinational electronic cross-sectional survey.
39 affiliations
- 1Unit of Geriatric Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, Italian National Research Center on Aging (INRCA-IRCCS), Cosenza, Italy.
- 2National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Health Determinants Research Collaboration (HDRC) Leicestershire, Leicestershire County Council, Glenfield, UK.
- 3Geriatric Department, CHRU Nancy and INSERM DCAC, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France.
- 4Department of Geriatric Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
- 5Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
- 6Service de Médecine Interne Gériatrie, University Hospital of Marseille, Marseille, France.
- 7Neurosciences of Systems Institute, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Aix Marseille University, Marseille, France.
- 8Hospital CUF Descobertas, Lisbon, Portugal.
- 9NOVA Medical School, NOVA University Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.
- 10Faculty of Medicine, Institution of Clinical Sciences Helsingborg, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
- 11Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Medicine of Tirana, Tirana, Albania.
- 12Faculty of Medicine, "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania.
- 13"Ana Aslan" National Institute of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Bucharest, Romania.
- 14Terveystalo Oy, Helsinki, Finland.
- 15Western Uusimaa Wellbeing Services County, Lohja, Finland.
- 16Dental School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
- 17Hellenic Society for the Study and Research of Ageing, Athens, Greece.
- 181st Department of Propaedeutic Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
- 19Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria.
- 20Department of Geriatrics, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania.
- 21Department of Geriatrics, Navarrabiomed, Public University of Navarra (UPNA), Pamplona, Spain.
- 22Navarre University Hospital (HUN), Department of Geriatrics, Navarre Health Service (SNS-O), Pamplona, Spain.
- 23Navarra Institute for Health Research (IdiSNA), Pamplona, Spain.
- 24CIBER of Frailty and Healthy Aging (CIBERFES), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
- 25Department of Health Care of Older People, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham, UK.
- 26Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Sestre milosrdnice University Hospital Center, Zagreb, Croatia.
- 27Section of Geriatrics, Department of Internal Medicine and Paediatrics, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
- 28Department of Internal Medicine and Gerontology, Faculty of Medicine, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, Poland.
- 29Discipline of Medical Gerontology, School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
- 30Mercer's Institute for Successful Ageing, St James's Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
- 31Ageing Clinical Research, Department II of Internal Medicine and Centre for Molecular Medicine, University of Cologne Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
- 32Excellence Cluster CECAD, University of Cologne Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
- 33Division of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy.
- 34Section of Geriatrics, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey.
- 35Royal Bournemouth Hospital, University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust, Bournemouth, UK.
- 36Bournemouth University, Bournemouth, UK.
- 37Department of Geriatrics, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark.
- 38Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
- 39Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University of Graz, Auenbruggerplatz 15, Graz 8036, Austria.
Abstract
Background
Interprofessional training is essential for high-quality care of older adults. Despite widespread recognition of its importance, evidence on perceived geriatric competence remains limited to studies on single countries or professions.Methods
Secondary analysis of a COST Action multinational multilingual web-based survey (PROmoting GeRiAtric Medicine in countries where it is still eMergING, PROGRAMMING) conducted across the 27 European Union Member States (EU-27) and non-EU-27 countries between 9 October 2023 and 5 June 2024. Four thousand seven hundred eighty-eight professionals from 10 core health and social care groups were included. We explored perceived Knowledge, Relevance and Interest across seven domains required for comprehensive geriatric assessment: frailty, falls and mobility, delirium, depression, mild cognitive impairment and dementia screening, nutritional assessment and malnutrition, polypharmacy and deprescribing. Student's t test; one-way analysis of variance, hierarchical clustering and latent class analysis were used to identify interprofessional differences and shared patterns across professions.Results
Mean age was 42.4 years (SD 11.9); 3432 (71.7%) were women; 2893 (60.4%) worked in EU-27 countries. Interprofessional differences were observed across all topics. Physiotherapists led in falls and mobility (mean 4.21, SD 0.75), pharmacists in polypharmacy and deprescribing (mean 3.51, SD 1.07), and psychologists/psychotherapists in depression (mean 3.96, SD 0.82). A medical doctors-nurses-pharmacists cluster emerged for Knowledge and Interest; 34.4% pharmacists fell in the low relevance class. Social workers and speech and language therapists showed a low Knowledge-high Interest mismatch. EU-27 professionals reported higher scores than non-EU-27 professionals across most topics (P < .001).Conclusions
Perceived knowledge, relevance and interest showed substantial variation across professions and regions, while revealing shared professional profiles. This may inform team-based interprofessional education.
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BibTeX
@article{soraci2026profiling,
title = {{Profiling perceived knowledge, relevance and interest across geriatric topics of health and social care professionals: multinational electronic cross-sectional survey.}},
author = {Luca Soraci and Giulia Ogliari and Athanase Benetos and Nenad Bogdanovic and Sylvie Bonin-Guillaume and Sofia Duque and Anne Wissendorff Ekdahl and Klejda Harasani and Anna M Herghelegiu and Dimitrije Jakovljević and Anastassia Kossioni and Marina Kotsani and Evrydiki Kravvariti and Sonja Lindner-Rabl and Jūratė Macijauskienė and Nicolás Martínez-Velilla and Tahir Masud and Tajana Pavic and Mirko Petrovic and Karolina Piotrowicz and Roman Romero-Ortuno and Maria Cristina Polidori-Nelles and Carmelinda Ruggiero and Sumru Savas and George Soulis and Divya Tiwari and Lone Winther Lietzen and Regina Roller-Wirnsberger and Michael Vassallo},
journal = {Age and ageing},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.1093/ageing/afag317},
url = {https://europepmc.org/article/MED/42969553},
note = {CC BY-NC-ND},
}
RIS
TY - JOUR
TI - Profiling perceived knowledge, relevance and interest across geriatric topics of health and social care professionals: multinational electronic cross-sectional survey.
AU - Luca Soraci
AU - Giulia Ogliari
AU - Athanase Benetos
AU - Nenad Bogdanovic
AU - Sylvie Bonin-Guillaume
AU - Sofia Duque
AU - Anne Wissendorff Ekdahl
AU - Klejda Harasani
AU - Anna M Herghelegiu
AU - Dimitrije Jakovljević
AU - Anastassia Kossioni
AU - Marina Kotsani
AU - Evrydiki Kravvariti
AU - Sonja Lindner-Rabl
AU - Jūratė Macijauskienė
AU - Nicolás Martínez-Velilla
AU - Tahir Masud
AU - Tajana Pavic
AU - Mirko Petrovic
AU - Karolina Piotrowicz
AU - Roman Romero-Ortuno
AU - Maria Cristina Polidori-Nelles
AU - Carmelinda Ruggiero
AU - Sumru Savas
AU - George Soulis
AU - Divya Tiwari
AU - Lone Winther Lietzen
AU - Regina Roller-Wirnsberger
AU - Michael Vassallo
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/01
JO - Age and ageing
DO - 10.1093/ageing/afag317
UR - https://europepmc.org/article/MED/42969553
AB - Background Interprofessional training is essential for high-quality care of older adults. Despite widespread recognition of its importance, evidence on perceived geriatric competence remains limited to studies on single countries or professions.Methods Secondary analysis of a COST Action multinational multilingual web-based survey (PROmoting GeRiAtric Medicine in countries where it is still eMergING, PROGRAMMING) conducted across the 27 European Union Member States (EU-27) and non-EU-27 countries between 9 October 2023 and 5 June 2024. Four thousand seven hundred eighty-eight professionals from 10 core health and social care groups were included. We explored perceived Knowledge, Relevance and Interest across seven domains required for comprehensive geriatric assessment: frailty, falls and mobility, delirium, depression, mild cognitive impairment and dementia screening, nutritional assessment and malnutrition, polypharmacy and deprescribing. Student's t test; one-way analysis of variance, hierarchical clustering and latent class analysis were used to identify interprofessional differences and shared patterns across professions.Results Mean age was 42.4 years (SD 11.9); 3432 (71.7%) were women; 2893 (60.4%) worked in EU-27 countries. Interprofessional differences were observed across all topics. Physiotherapists led in falls and mobility (mean 4.21, SD 0.75), pharmacists in polypharmacy and deprescribing (mean 3.51, SD 1.07), and psychologists/psychotherapists in depression (mean 3.96, SD 0.82). A medical doctors-nurses-pharmacists cluster emerged for Knowledge and Interest; 34.4% pharmacists fell in the low relevance class. Social workers and speech and language therapists showed a low Knowledge-high Interest mismatch. EU-27 professionals reported higher scores than non-EU-27 professionals across most topics (P < .001).Conclusions Perceived knowledge, relevance and interest showed substantial variation across professions and regions, while revealing shared professional profiles. This may inform team-based interprofessional education.
SN - 0002-0729
SN - 1468-2834
ER -