HAPPY AGEING
HAPPY AGEING system will be composed of three main modules: a lifestyle monitor, able to record main activities taking place in the home and compare them with habits of the monitored subject; a ...
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The Happy Ageing project objectives are:
- to prevent the incidence of chronic conditions and to manage such conditions when present, supporting independent living;
- to develop and integrate a customizable system matching the demand for technology by the elderly with current market supply;
- to directly involve the end-user in the development phase, assessing the user’s expectations and needs, assuring user acceptance of the new system;
- to stimulate business innovation and create market opportunities to distribute and sell HAPPY AGEING devices.
Expected results and impact
There is considerable scope for the development and application of assistive technology to make the homes of older people more able to support care, either self-care or by others. HAPPY AGEING, will stress this issue, trying to reduce the costs for caring with a less use of institute and to strength the position of older persons as active consumers, making their individual demands clearer by a deep analysis of user’s needs.
Partners
Partners involved in the HAPPY AGEING project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI RIPOSO E CURA PER ANZIANI V.E. II (INRCA) | R&D | Italy | www.inrca.it |
| FUNDACIÓ PRIVADA CETEMMSA (CETEMMSA) | R&D | Spain | www.cetemmsa.com |
| SPEED AUTOMAZIONE Srl (SPD) | Large Industry | Italy | www.speedautomazi.it |
| GLOBAL SECURITY INTELLIGENCE LIMITED (GSI) | SME | United Kingdom | globalseci.com |
| AB.ACUS Srl (ABACUS) | SME | Italy | www.ab-acus.com |
| INSTITUTE OF SOCIOLOGY, HUNGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (ISO) | R&D | Hungary | socorg.socio |
| ASSOCIATION OF CATHOLIC ORGANIZATIONS OF SENIOR CITIZENS (UNIEKBO) | End User | Netherlands | www.uniekbo.nl |
- Project name: A Home based APProach to the Years of AGEING
- Website: http://happyageing.info/
- Coordinator: INRCA, Italy
- Duration: 28 Months
- Starting Date: 01.04.2009
- Total budget: € 1.673.779
- Public contribution: € 986.153
Objectives
The main project objectives include the design, development and deployment of the following main categories of services over the HERA platform:
- Cognitive reinforcement services
- Physical reinforcement services
- Patient specific home care services
- General home care services for elderly
Expected results and impact
The project results will be:
- The HERA cognitive reinforcement personalised services and the physical reinforcement personalised services with intelligent multimodal interfaces;
- The HERA patient specific home care personalised services with intelligent multimodal interfaces;
- The HERA general home care personalised services with intelligent multimodal interfaces;
- The HERA platform with specialised services for elderly people suffering from MCI or mild/moderate AD or other diseases (diabetes, cardiovascular) with identified risk factors.
Partners
Partners involved in the HERA project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| A1 Telekom Austria AG | Large Industry | Austria | www.telekom.at |
| ALCATEL-LUCENT Deutschland AG | Large Industry | Germany | www.alcatel-lucent.com |
| SingularLogic S.A | SME | Greece | www.singularlogic.eu |
| SOLINET GmbH | SME | France | www.singularlogic.eu |
| Paris Descartes University | R&D | Germany | www.univ-paris5.fr |
| RotesKreuz | End User | Austria | www.roteskreuz.at |
| DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC CENTER OF ATHENS- "HYGEIA" SOCIETE ANONYME | End User | Greece | www.hygeia.gr |
- Project name: Home sERvices for specialised elderly Assisted living
- Website: www.aal-hera.eu
- Coordinator: A1 Telekom Austria AG
- Duration: 24 Months
- Starting Date: 01.10.2009
- Total budget: € 2.549.293,28
- Public contribution: € 1.575.350
Objectives
Innovative ICT services and systems will be developed utilizing a low-cost infrastructure based on RFID based NFC tags
- The user can use a non-discriminating device which is familiar for them, such as their own mobile phone to access the services provided;
- The proposed scenarios will help elderly people with visual handicaps in medication management;
There is a tight involvement of end user organizations throughout the process. Scenarios cover the whole service chain from the pharmacy to the end user.
Expected results and impact
TECHNOLOGY
Development of haptic and audio user interfaces to support accessing and consuming medication management services and content.
SERVICES
Using digital service access points for accessing services and information available in the everyday environment of the elderly users with vision impairment.
METHODOLOGY
Creating frameworks for evaluation of value creation of digital services especially in the domain of elderly care and supporting the lives of elderly users.
Partners
Partners involved in the HMFM project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| VTT | R&D | Finland | www.vtt.fi |
| FFVI | End User | Finland | www.nkl.fi |
| Caritas Foundation | End User | Finland | www.caritas-saatio.fi |
| Oulun 6. Jousten Apteekki | Large Industry | Finland | |
| Top Tunniste | SME | Finland | www.toptunniste.fi |
| Tecnalia | R&D | Spain | www.tecnalia.info |
| National Center for Scientific Research ”Demokritos” | R&D | Greece | www.demokritos.gr |
- Project name: Hear Me Feel Me
- Website: www.hearmefeelme.org
- Coordinator: VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
- Duration: 29 Months
- Starting Date: 01.07.2012
- Total budget: € 1.600.000
- Public contribution: € 1.200.000
Objectives
Identifying the end user and to find out which requirements it has on our CapMouse human interface technology of Brusell Dental connecting to PC/Mac and Android mobile devices. The most demanding group of end users is probably persons suffering from high spinal injuries whit this group setting the demands for the development work of the carrier. The product will be modular in the sense that the sensor arm and head will be adapted to fit different kinds of carriers, for example headset, ear cap (like a hearing aid) or to glasses. The primary use of the Cap Mouse will be to control PC/Mac/Android devices as an alternative to eye tracking and similar where time scanning today is used to confirm a choice.
Expected results and impact
The Capmouse project will result in a CapMouse (product) interface (headset) for elderly/elderly disabled to offer tongue controlled keyboard/mouse functionality via standard USB connection, over Windows OS applications and Android applications. The project delivers a proof of concept on how a head mounted capacitive sensor controlled by the tongue can be used as an input for a human machine interface. The main target group is elderly/elderly disabled. The concept will include a prototype with a multi sensor headset and a hardwired hardware interface based on HID/USB.
Partners
Partners involved in the CapMouse project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brussel Dental AS. | SME / R&D | Norway | www.bruselldental.com/aal |
| PRO | End user | Sweden | www.pro.se/ |
| HMC International | SME / R&D | Belgium | www.hmc-products.com |
| Lots Design | SME | Sweden | www.lotsdesign.se |
| Stinct | SME | Sweden | www.shiftdesign.se |
- Project name: Cap Mouse
- Website: www.brusell-dental.com/aal
- Coordinator: Brusell Dental
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 15.06.2009
- Total budget: € 1.131.110
- Public contribution: € € 540.000
Objectives
The project supports the development of an open, standardized, integrated European platform to deliver connected ICT-based assistive living solutions for the elderly. By building on initiatives at the national level and, taking account of different funding mechanisms in EU member states (Social insurance-based; Germany and Hungary, private insurance-based; Netherlands and taxation-based; UK), to develop and assess business models to support the mainstream provision of assistive solutions. The focus will be on dementia sufferers, but the platform will offer the potential to be extended to other chronic conditions.
Expected results and impact
The project has already had significant commercial success. The UK partners, Peverell and Centrihealth, have developed a new assisted living solution which uses the corkboard component of the CCE solution. They have invested considerable resources of their own to launch a new assisted living solution called Apollo in the UK and they openly state that they would not have developed this solution had they not been involved in the CCE project. UID have developed a dementia RFID enabled table, which has commercial spin offs in other areas.
Partners
Partners involved in the CCE project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Biomedical Engineering Knowledge Centre | R&D | Hungary | http://english.www.bme.hu |
| Building Research Establishment | R&D | UK | www.bre.co.uk |
| Centrihealth | Large Industry | UK | www.centrihealth.com |
| Fraunhofer | SME | Germany | www.igd.fraunhofer.de/en |
| Innomed Medical Inc. | Large Industry | Hungary | www.innomed.hu/about_us |
| MedCom GmbH | Large Industry | Germany | www.medcom-online.de |
| Hungarian Association of Home Care and Hospice | SME | Hungary | |
| Philips | Large Industry | Netherlands | www.philips.com/global |
| Peverel | End User | UK | www.peverel.co.uk |
| User Interface Design GmbH | Large Industry | Germany | www.uid.com/en/home |
- Project name: Connected Care for Elderly Persons Suffering from Dementia (CCE)
- Website: http://www.cceproject.eu/
- Coordinator: Building Research Establishment Limited (BRE)
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.07.2009
- Total budget: € 3.000.000
- Public contribution: € 1.500.000
Objectives
The aim of the project is to utilise state-of-the-art in ICT in order to develop an integrated solution for the self-management of dementia patients, and develop innovative tools to support this procedure. This solution can be conceived as an integrated platform enabling distant monitoring of patient status and facilitating personalised intervention and adaptive care.
The project aims at:
- Supporting maintaining health and functional capability, through the risk assessment and the early detection of deterioration symptoms of the patients and distress signs of their carers;
- Providing the means for the self-care and the self-management of chronic conditions, through the development social networking as well as educational tools;
- Providing added value to the individual, leveraging his/her quality of life, and supporting the moral and mental upgrade of both patients and carers;
- Enhancing the home-as-care environment through the provision of user-friendly ICT tools for frequent, unobtrusive monitoring.
Expected results and impact
Aladdin project intends to progress “state-of-the-art” in integration of existing technological solutions, in order to address a field that even though induces a significant burden both socially and economically has not been successfully coped with. This field includes both patients suffering from dementia as well as their carers who run the risk of developing depression symptoms themselves and must face social withdrawal and heavy private additional costs. It aims to develop and validate an innovative model/methodology for health promotion, risk assessment, prevention and sustainable impact of self-management tools and education for patients suffering from dementia and their care-givers; it aims to support (or at least delay as much as possible) the non-institutionalisation of such patients via providing them and their carers with the necessary tools to efficiently manage their disease and formulate an efficient home care strategy so that healthcare systems and health institutions become key players in this procedure.
The main idea of the proposed project lies behind three simple processes:
- Development and validation of self-management tools for an improved and sustained quality of self-management of dementia;
- Development and validation of a methodology for risk assessment and analysis of adverse events related to home-based treated patients suffering from dementia as well as their care-givers, aiming at the formulation of a home care strategy;
- Development and validation of tools for social networking between patients suffering from dementia as well as between their carers, thus enabling the exchanging of experiences with persons in similar situations.
Partners
Partners involved in the ALADDIN project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Institute of Communication & Computer Systems | R&D | Greece | www.iccs.gr |
| ATOS Origin | Large Industry | Spain | www.atos.net |
| Badalona Serveis Assistencials | Large Industry | Spain | www.bsa.cat |
| Psychiatric Hospital Of Attica | R&D | Greece | www.breathtakingathens.com |
| Fraunhofer | R&D | Germany | www.fraunhofer.de |
| The National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery | End User | UK | www.ucl.ac.uk |
| Alma Mater Studiorum Universita' di Bologna | R&D | Italy | www.eng.unibo.it |
| Aethia | SME | Italy | www.aethia.com |
- Project name: A technology pLatform for the Assisted living of Dementia elDerly INdividuals and their carers
- Website: www.aladdin-project.eu
- Coordinator: Maria Haritou, Institute of Communication & Computer Systems, 9, Heroon Polytechniou str. 15773 Athens, Greece
- Duration: 27 Months
- Starting Date: 01.09.2009
- Total budget: € 1.980.757
- Public contribution: € 1.479.964
Objectives
A²E² aims at breaking sedentary life styles though ambient virtual coaching motivating elderly before, during and after daily activities. The A²E² ambient virtual coach, which is connected through 4 bio sensors, can interact with the elderly users on a moment to moment basis and provide adaptive feedback based on sensor info and users’ answers to the virtual coach questions. Daily events can be created and adaptively selected using a content event editor and placed in a daily task structure which ranges from morning till evening.
Expected results and impact
Through application of state of the art motivation theory in ICT sustained use is expected to lead in sustained life style change moving beyond the initial and into the habitual. This is expected to lead to increased autonomy and overall health and well being. A digital coach is there to support the desired lifestyle of the elderly user and will become a personal friend for the elderly. An important aspect of the business model is the licensing of validated events that will be tailored to the needs and requirements of specific groups or individuals in the European elderly generation.
Partners
Partners involved in the A²E² project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| VUA University Amsterdam | R&D | Netherlands | Netherlands |
| Hospital IT AS | SME | Norway | www.hospitaltiy.no |
| Mawell | SME | Finland | www.mawell.fi |
| AMSTA | End User | Netherlands | www.amsta.nl |
| VTT | SME | Finland | www.vtt.fi |
- Project name: Adaptive Ambient Empowerment for the Elderly
- Website: www.a2e2.eu
- Coordinator: Dr. Peter H.M.P. Roelofsma, VUA University Amsterdam
- Duration: 36 months
- Starting Date: 01.05.2009
- Total budget: € 3.074.485,72
- Public contribution: € 2.024.721,72
Objectives
- Allows early detection of COPD exacerbations;
- Offers a user-friendly design for the elderly;
- Provides remote monitoring and home-based care;
- Fosters prevention and self-management;
- Increases levels of therapy compliance.
Expected results and impact
- Measurable indicators for early detection of exacerbations:
Design of AMICA Dedicated Mobile Device, Medical questionnaire and ad hoc sensor. - Measurable indicators for a better quality of life by mean of drops in hospitalisations and subsequent:
Decrease in costs associated to COPD - Effects upon quality of life of patients and family environment.
- Identify measurable indicator for AMICA services and business concept viability.
Partners
Partners involved in the AMICA project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Umeå University, Dept. of Informatics | R&D | Sweden | www.umu.se |
| Can Controls | SME | Germany | www.cancontrols.com |
| Athens Information Technology | R&D | Greece | www.ait.gr |
| Graz University of Technology | R&D | Austria | www.portal.tugraz.at |
| Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia | End user / R&D | Spain | www.uned.es |
| Kendro Merimnas Oikoyennias kai Pediou | End user | Greece | www.kmop.gr |
| ONDA Communication S.p.A | Large Industry | Italy | www.ondacommunication.com |
| Fundacion Instituto Gerontologico Matia | End user | Spain | www.ingema.es |
| Skellefteå Kommun | End user | Sweden | www.skelleftea.se |
- Project name: Autonomy Motivation & Individual Self-Management for COPD patients
- Website: http://www.amica-aal.com
- Coordinator: Luis Felipe Crespo Foix University of Cadiz (Spain)
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.04.2009
- Total budget: € 2.941.362
- Public contribution: € 2.784.181
Objectives
The general objective of IS-ACTIVE is to devise a person-centric healthcare solution for patients with chronic conditions – especially elderly people – based on miniaturised wireless inertial sensors, which provide distributed motion capture and intelligent recognition of activities and situations.
The home becomes the main care environment, where patients can receive real-time feedback in order to monitor, self-manage and improve their physical condition according to their specific situation.
Expected results and impact
IS-ACTIVE aims at producing tangible results in the form of fully-functional prototypes with a relatively short estimated time to market (1-2 years).
The IS-ACTIVE consortium aims to design, build and test systems that can eventually be bought and used by the individuals, instead of being the property of healthcare institutions. IS-ACTIVE will attempt to shift medical device technology into the mainstream consumer electronics market. This implies that there is a strong focus towards ease of use, integration and pricing.
Partners
Partners involved in the IS-ACTIVE project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Twente | R&D | Netherlands | www.utwente.nl |
| Roessingh Research & Development | R&D / SME / End User | Netherlands | www.rrd.nl |
| Inertia Technology | R&D / SME | Netherlands | www.inertia-technology.com |
| Norwegian Centre for Integrated Care and Telemedicine | R&D / End User | Norway | www.telemed.no |
| NORUT Northern Research Institute | R&D | Norway | www.norut.no |
| University Hospital Elias | R&D / End User | Romania | www.spitalul-elias.ro |
| PROSYS PC | R&D / SME | Romania | www.prosyspc.ro |
- Project name: Inertial Sensing Systems for Advanced Chronic Condition Monitoring and Risk Prevention
- Website: www.is-active.eu
- Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Paul Havinga, University of Twente (The Netherlands)
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.04.2009
- Total budget: € 1,814,812
- Public contribution: € 1,394,777