Building the future of geriatric care
Population ageing is accelerating faster than health systems can adapt. The WHO ICOPE pathway is proven, but running it on paper does not scale. We built the workflow that does.
Why we built ICOPE Connect
The WHO Integrated Care for Older People framework changed how the world thinks about ageing. Instead of chasing individual diseases, it asks a better question: what is this person still able to do, and how do we protect it?
The problem was never the science. It was the paperwork. Screening six domains, scoring six instruments, tracking change over years, and turning all of it into a care plan is a significant amount of clinical time. In practice, that means ICOPE often does not happen at all.
ICOPE Connect removes that friction. Patients self-screen before they arrive. Scores compute themselves. Risk is colour-coded the moment it appears. Care plans draft themselves from the data already collected. The clinician spends their time on the part only a clinician can do.
What guides us
Evidence first
Every screening instrument in the platform is validated and drawn from the WHO ICOPE guidance. We do not invent clinical scores. We digitise the ones the evidence already supports.
The clinician decides
AI is decision support, never the decision. Every AI output is clearly labelled, traceable to the underlying assessment data, and subordinate to clinical judgement.
Dignity by design
Older adults and their families are first-class users, not an afterthought. Plain language, large type, high contrast, and no jargon. Accessibility is a requirement, not a feature.
Privacy is not negotiable
Health data carries a duty of care. Encryption at rest and in transit, two-factor authentication, least-privilege access, and logs that are sanitised of personal information.
Built with modern standards
Interoperability and accessibility are built in, not bolted on.
- WHO ICOPE screening tool, 2nd edition (December 2024): chair-rise test, three-word recall with orientation, PHQ-2 with a safety question, and standardised nutrition, vision, and hearing checks
- Trilingual interface: English and French, with Kreol Morisien as a machine-assisted draft under clinical review
- HL7 FHIR for EHR and EMR interoperability on Enterprise plans
- WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility across the patient-facing portal
- Progressive Web App: no app store, works on any modern browser
Built by the Chemtech group in Mauritius
ICOPE Connect is built and operated by the Chemtech group in Mauritius, working with the WHO Integrated Care for Older People framework. We turn the published WHO guidance into software that clinics can actually run, and we test it against the framework rather than our own opinions about it.
We would rather show you the platform than a wall of titles. As the clinical advisory group around ICOPE Connect takes shape, the clinicians and researchers guiding it will be introduced here, with their real names and real credentials.
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