PATIENT PAGE

This page is intended for patients and, more broadly, for anyone wishing to learn more about GerOnTe. Here, you will find an overview of the project, its key objectives, as well as explanatory videos and educational posts designed to make the project’s concepts more accessible.

Description of the project

GERONTE is a 6-year research and innovation project (April 2021 to March 2027). It is funded by the European Union within the framework of the H2020 Research and Innovation programme. It was created by the professor Pierre Soubeyran, specialist in medical oncology , and the University of Bordeaux.

The overall aim of GERONTE is to improve quality of life for older patients, living with multiple diseases simultaneously, including a cancer. In this project, well being is not limited to the health status : it takes into accountability the autonomy and capacity to realise day to day activites.

To reach that objective, patients, health profesionnals and searchers work together to conceive and test a new way to organise the medical pathway. This approach aims to place the patient at the heart of the decisions, taking into account their problematics in their globality.

This new approach, called GerOnTe intervention, is actually tested in 10 centers in France ; It aims to be implemented at the european scale.

GerOnTe aims to help patients have a better day to day life thanks to new innovative ressources.

Who ?

For patients over 70 years old.

Why ?

To improve quality of life of patients and the carepathway.

How ?

By allowing an effective communication between the caregivers with the help of a lead nurse

What's the objective ?

To transform care pathways from a disease-centered approach to a patient-centred approach.

Video Presentation of the project : 

This video presents the objectives of the GerOnTe project, introduced by the project coordinator, Professor Pierre Louis Soubeyran.

GerOnTe with the patients : 

This video presents the patient workshop organised by the BRIC at the Ligue Contre le Cancer de Gironde in June 2026, in which the GerOnTe project took part :

Vulgarisation posts : 

In order to make our subject more understandable for european patients, we are currectly undergoing a broad information campaign talking about key concepts of GerOnTe, on social medias : 

(click on the images to see the publication on LinkedIn, in English)