TV-AssistDem
Patient-support tool TV-ASSISTDEM will help patients with dementia to keep control over their lives, increasing patients’ independence. The improved communication between patients and their (formal ...
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Objectives
As Europe’s population is ageing, long-term care for elderly citizens will become an increasing cost for society. To manage this transition healthcare policy in the EU and individual Member States are heavily focused on extending the independent life of the elderly, with the dual aim of increasing their quality of life and reducing the costs of care. Dementia affects more than 6% of people aged 60+ and has a devastating effect on their independence – to date, there is no proven intervention to help dementia patients live a fulfilling life for longer. In this project, we will build on an innovative patient support tool to provide healthcare over a distance specifically targeted to patients with mild dementia that enables the interaction of voice, video, and health-related data using ordinary telephone lines connected to the internet.
Expected Results and Impact
The main indicators of impact will be the improvement in health-related quality of life and cognitive decline. These may result in financial savings for the healthcare system in each country, an estimated saving cost per patient/year for healthcare providers of 1800 euros.
This ICT solution can be used in almost every household in Europe, around the second half of 2020. Any older person living independently can be used by, helping to develop the concept of Ambient Assisted Living on an affordable and cost-effective way. We offer total control of the Support Platform to the healthcare providers, versus proprietary connected TV solutions.
Partners
Partners involved in the TV AssisteDem project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| IBIMA Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Málaga | End User | Spain | www.ibima.eu |
| MEDEA | SME | Italy | www.medeaproject.eu |
| Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche- Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione | R&D | Italy | www.istc.cnr.it |
| Institut multidisciplinaire de science de données | SME | Switzerland | www.imsd.ch |
| SC INGRIJIRI LA DOMICILIU srl | R&D | Romania | www.ingrijireacasa.ro |
| Smart Health TV Solution | SME | Spain | www.shtvsolution.com |
| Asociación de familiares de personas con Alzheimer y otras demencias de Málaga | End User | Spain | www.alzheimermalaga.org |
- Project name: TV-based ASSistive Integrated Service to SupporT European adults living with Dementia
- Website: http://www.tvassistdem-aal.eu/
- Coordinator: IBIMA, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Málaga
- Duration: 36 months
- Starting Date: 01.02.2017
- Total budget: € 1.115.246
- Public contribution: € 607.079
Objectives
The fundamental objective of EDLAH2 is to research and observe/prove, if the gamification methodology used within sectors like the health and fitness sector, which is primarily aimed at athletic and physical capable people; could be successful in motivating older people to maintain good physical, mental and emotional practices, to improve or maintain their quality of life. This builds on and will add to, the product (MiCare), developed by KG&S in the UK and the research carried out, as a result of the EDLAH project.
Expected results and impact
EDLAH2 data will indicate gamification techniques, which can be utilised to motivate older people to maintain activities, that improve/maintain a healthy life. This in the areas of mental health (stimulation), physical health (monitoring, encouraging activity) and social life (communication, skills usage). This will result in the publication of 2/3 research papers. The developed apps and gamification engine utilised by the SMEs to add to their product lines, in both conventional web gaming (EVDS) and for KG&S within their product MiCare. It is hoped that for both this would take place within 18 months of the project completion.
Partners
Partners involved in the EDLAH 2 project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Karis Group Limited (KG&S) | SME | United Kingdom | www.karisgroup.com |
| EverdreamSoft | SME | Switzerland | www.everdreamsoft.com |
| Terzstiftung | End User | Switzerland | www.terzstiftung.ch |
| Université de Genève | R&D | Switzerland | www.tam.unige.ch |
| Université du Luxembourg | R&D | Luxembourg | wwwen.uni.lu |
- Project name: Enhanced Daily Living And Health 2
- Website: www.edlah2.eu
- Coordinator: Mike O’Connor
- Duration: 30 months
- Starting date: 01.06.2016
- Total budget: €2,925,451
- Public contribution: €1,727,394
Objectives
DayGuide introduces a novel ICT-based system, supporting older adults suffering from mild cognitive impairment and early dementia in their daily life and their families. The system also supports persons living alone with no care person available on a regular basis. Persons with cognitive impairment experience various domestic challenges, depriving them from the pursuit of an independent, self-organised life at home. DayGuide responds directly to these challenges through technology allowing people to live as independent as possible for as long as possible. Informal caregivers benefit through improved information and exchange in a networked environment.
Expected results and impact
DayGuide will improve the Quality of Life for end-users. The main results will be: 1) Structuring daily activities for the elderly in early phases of MCI or dementia and providing significant improvement as it is oriented towards the specific needs of the person (user-centred design). 2) This also affects the quality of life of the carer. Preventing burden and stress in the support provider significantly reduces the need for pharmacological treatment of this group and prevents secondary diseases. 3) National policies aim for the elderly to live as long as possible in their own environment. The problems and the solution that DayGuide provides apply in the same way throughout Europe.
DayGuide
Partners involved in the DayGuide project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH | R&D | Austria | www.ait.ac.at |
| Cubigo International NV | SME | Belgium | www.cubigo.com |
| CREAGY AG | SME | Switzerland | www.creagy.ch |
| Movisie | R&D | The Netherlands | www.movisie.nl |
| terzStiftung | End User | Switzerland | www.terzstiftung.ch |
| De Wever | End User | The Netherlands | www.dewever.nl |
| MAS Alzheimerhilfe | End User | Austria | www.alzheimer-hilfe.at |
| Kadex BV | SME | The Netherlands | www.kadex-domotica.com |
| Kepler University Clinic GmbH | R&D | Autria | www.kepleruniklinikum.at |
- Project name: DayGuide
- Website: www.dayguide.eu
- Facebook: www.facebook.com/dayguide.dementia
- Twitter: @DayGuide
- Coordinator: Dr. Heinrich Garn
- Duration: 36 months
- Starting date: 01.04.2016
- Total budget: 2,2 mi €
- Public contribution: 1,3 mi €
CordonGris
Three core components will be developed: an integration service with open and extensible APIs that allow integrating the system with third party devices, systems and infrastructures; user interfaces ...
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The number of malnourished seniors reaching emergency rooms is alarming. Socio-economic status, culture or personal preferences are some of the key elements to deliver food recommendations that are healthy and accepted. CordonGris will gather and manage data that are relevant for this purpose (e.g. activity monitoring, country-specific food composition tables, retailers’ information), make sense of these data and generate recommendations that balance healthy eating, physical activity and a budget constraint. CordonGris is providing the conditions for ‘flat-rate food’ to become a reality for seniors.
Expected results and impact
- Identification of main rules and development of algorithms to support a recommendation engine that fosters healthy eating on a budget.
- Integration with retailers and design of the service(s) in the three participating countries.
- Inclusively designed user interfaces.
- Reaching the market 2 years after project end.
Partners
Partners involved in the CordonGris project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fraunhofer Portugal AICOS | R&D | Portugal | www.fraunhofer.pt |
| Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa | End User | Portugal | www.scml.pt |
| SONAE - Modelo Continente Hipermercados, S.A. | Large Industry | Portugal | www.sonae.pt |
| Red Ninja Studios | SME | United Kingdom | www.redninja.co.uk |
| Can Cook | SME | United Kingdom | www.cancook.co.uk |
| UnieKBO | End User | The Netherlands | www.uniekbo.nl |
- Project name: CordonGris: Making sense of data to promote effortless healthy eating habits and autonomy for older adults
- Website: www.cordongris.eu
- Coordinator: Fraunhofer Portugal AICOS
- Duration: 24 months
- Starting date: 01.05.2016
- Total budget: 1,8 mi €
- Public contribution: 1,3 mi €
Brain@Home
Technological breakthrough developments: a platform which will be developed as the central experience centre and data collection hub in the Brain@Home project. Monitoring and improving/maintaining ...
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- Develop a platform through which older persons can accede to a motivating, challenging and playful environment to engage in brain training and physical activity within the safety of their own home,
- Build a hardware system using consumer-level portable devices for brain training
- Construct a gaming platform for social-powered brain training. Games and activities are stored in cloud repositories. A user’s score in a game can be compared to the scores of other users using the system with the same type of exercise
- A virtual community for older persons and caregivers, families, friends to share and disseminate knowledge and curiosities about interesting visits and travels
- A system to store results and give access (web, mobile, etc) to this data and trends to users, caregivers and possibly to GP/family physicians.
- To examine improvement in different domains such as well being, quality of life, and cognitive status following the training program
Expected results and impact
IT System: design definition according to the users’ needs and in time according to the project calendar.
Applications: definition of functionalities, development and test according to the defined project plan.
The scientific approach and the study design reflect the purpose of the research, and are in line with the major scientific findings in the field, going beyond the state of the art.
Involvement of the end-users in each developmental phase, to ensure system acceptance, usability and exploitability.
Business and cooperation agreements with at least 2 types of entities, if possible embracing at least 5 EU countries as well as efficient dissemination to stakeholders.
Proper approach to the market and end-user needs
Partners
Partners involved in the Brain@Home project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| SIVECO Romania | Large Industry | Romania | www.siveco.ro |
| Casa di Cura Privata del Policlinico | Large Industry | Italy | www.ccppdezza.it |
| MediaHospital srl | SME | Italy | www.mediahospital.com |
| Pannon Business Network Association | End User | Hungary | www.pbn.hu |
| Karma Interactive | SME | Hungary | www.karma-interactive.hu |
| University of Bucharest | R&D | Romania | www.unibuc.ro |
- Project name: Moving and enhancing brain training for an active life
- Website: http://www.brainathome-aal.com/index.php/en/
- Coordinator: SIVECO Romania
- Duration: 30 months
- Starting date: 02.06.2016
- Total budget: 1,379,515.00 €
- Public contribution: 849,184.00 €
ActiveAdvice
Tackling the shortcomings of a web platform, providing an overview of the AAL ecosystem and supporting informed decision making, the ActiveAdvice project aims to create an active advising and ...
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The ActiveAdvice project aims to deliver a fully functional ICT environment with specific web and mobile services for older adults and their relatives, for professionals in inclusive design and construction engineering across Europe, as well as for governments and municipalities involved in Active and Assisted Living (AAL). The ICT environment offers a holistic market overview, presenting regional, national and international AAL products and services in accordance with the needs of the end users, and combines it with a strong and integrated focus on the target market.
Expected results and impact
ActiveAdvice creates a novel ICT environment compromised from digital and human advisers, enhancing the information exchange and expert dialogue, as well as the technology and service uptake in the field of AAL. Through the creation of three service models tailored to the specific needs of the three target groups AAL2C, AAL2B and AAL2G, combined with the creation of an international network of Authorised Active Advisors from various business sectors related to AAL, an increased rate of awareness for and implementation of AAL solutions is reached across Europe.
Partners
Partners involved in the ActiveAdvice project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| SYNYO GmbH | SME | Austria | www.synyo.com |
| Zurich University of Applied Sciences | R&D | Switzerland | www.zhaw.ch |
| Stichting Smart Homes | R&D | The Netherlands | www.smart-homes.nl |
| Cybermoor Services | SME | United Kingdom | www.cybermoor.org.uk |
| City of Alkmaar | End User | The Netherlands | www.alkmaar.nl |
| Yellow Window NV | SME | Belgium (Flanders) | www.yellowwindow.be |
| University of Porto - ICBAS.CINTESIS | R&D | Portugal | www.cintesis.eu |
- Project name: Decision Support Solutions for Independent Living using an Intelligent AAL Product and Service Cloud
- Website: project.activeadvice.eu
- Coordinator: SYNYO GmbH
- Duration: 28 months
- Starting date: 01.04.2016
- Total budget: 1.337.463 €
- Public contribution: 809.685 €
StayActive
In an initial phase, end users will be contacted and a set of initial requirements will be developed. These requirements will be refined together with the partners and a final user requirements set ...
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The StayActive system aims to reduce the stress condition and health problems and work problems arising from stress for older end users, while at the same time supporting the organisation by enabling users to adhere to corporate policies more easily.
StayActive objectives are(i) increasing autonomy and productivity in older workers; (ii) promoting empowerment and more equal access to services; (iii) creating a product that has an impact on the end user audience and has social relevance; (iv) providing access to a novel ICT product for older workers, which would easily integrate in their daily life.
Expected results and impact
To develop the Stress and burn-out detection prototype system consisting in: wearable sensors and cloud system able to monitor continuously some of the biological signals for detecting and indicating the stress state; a mobile application in order to supports the user “just-in-time”, through personalised recommendations and various relaxation activities, including relaxation games. An important social and ethical issue is the ability of the StayActive system is to collect personal and sensitive data about an older worker. The challenge is to optimise between comfort / strong support, only possible when personal data are collected, and protection against unwanted data collection, which leads to less
StayActive support.
Partners
Partners involved in the StayActive project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| ICT-based Solutions for Supporting Occupation in Life of Older Adults | Large Industry | Romania | www.teamnet.ro |
| Ana Aslan International Foundation | End User | Romania | www.brainaging.ro |
| RGB Medical Devices, S.A | SME | Spain | www.rgb-medical.com |
| HI-Iberia Ingenieria y proyectos S.L. | SME | Spain | www.hi-iberia.es |
| University of Geneva | R&D | Switzerland | www.unige.ch |
| ELearning Studios | SME | United Kingdom | www.e-learningstudios.com |
- Project name: StayActive
- Website: http://www.stay-active.net/
- Coordinator: Teamnet International SA
- Duration: 30 months
- Starting Date: 01.04.2014
- Total budget: 2 679 021 €
- Public contribution: 1 536 395 €
Objectives
LetItFlow project aims to design and implement a workflow support system to help elderly hospital workers (mainly nurses) to accomplish their daily tasks and to the adaptation to new procedures and methods. The system should enable assistance by means of workers activity monitoring, portable communication tools, alerting services, adapted interaction interfaces or workflow management. It is based on fixed and mobile platforms that interact with the nurses to guide them in their work activities. Different Human-Computer interfaces are considered in order to adapt to the user activities and user profile.
Expected results and impact
The platform aim to have a positive impact in:
- The LetItFlow tool will alleviate the task of nurses by a better distribution of the workload. Distributed smart monitoring of the team and worker state will enhance collaborative work
- It will ease a smooth adaptation to changes, the smart assignment and tailoring of tasks, will facilitate the work to nurses, feel more comfortable. The tool also support knowledge transfer in real life scenarios, by putting together young and elderly employees in several works
The project aim to overcome problems related with the foreseen lack of caregivers, by providing tools that ease their daily task.
Partners
Partners involved in the LetItFlow project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Integrasys SA | SME | Spain | www.integrasys-sa.com |
| Noldus Information Technology BV | SME | The Netherlands | www.noldus.com |
| Austrian Institute of Technology - AIT | R&D | Austria | www.ait.ac.at |
| SIVECO Romania SA | Large Industry | Romania | www.siveco.ro |
| University Municipal Hospital from Bucharest | End User | Romania | www.suub.ro |
| Hospital Universitario Virgen Macarena | End User | Spain | www.hospitalmacarena.es |
- Project name: Active Distributed Workflow System for elderly
- Website: http://www.letitflow-project.com
- Coordinator: Integrasys S.A.
- Duration: 36 months
- Starting date: 01.09.2014
- Total budget: 1.450.783,00 €
- Public contribution: 1.136.700,20 €
Objectives
The project ‘KNOTS’ addresses the aggregation and availableness of inter-generational knowledge. This includes the challenge of retaining knowledge of retiring workers inside a company or within a field of application and sharing it with other professionals and (post-employment) volunteers. KNOTS does not exclusively focus on older adults but integrates also younger persons in the area of care. The barrier-free accessibility and readiness of knowledge by speech-control or touch will support employees when working on cognitively demanding tasks in a way that enables them to perform critical tasks reliably.
Expected results and impact
The project aims at combining the following service models: the development of an accessible, adaptable, directing, supporting information (assistant) system; a user-friendly web portal for administrative purposes („Look and Feel“); an intuitive user interface on mobile devices (tablets) as well as for the internal service module, a simple integration into existing (network) structures; independence from mobile operating systems and recording information text based, video based or via speech recognition. This will influence the state-of-the-art of sharing information and knowledge. It will actually reduce barriers between different professions and persons.
Partners
Partners involved in the KNOTS project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Project Group Hearing-, Speech- and Audiotechnology, Fraunhofer IDMT | R&D | Germany | www.idmt.fraunhofer.de |
| Protronic GmbH | SME | Germany | www.protronic-gmbh.de |
| Eurotronik Kranj d.o.o. | SME | Slovenia | www.eurotronik.si |
| Johanniter Unfall Hilfe e.V. | End User | Germany | www.johanniter.de |
| CareTech AB | End User | Sweden | www.care.doro.se |
| Hemtjänstkompaniet AB | End User | Sweden | www.hemtjanstkompaniet.se |
- Project name: An interactive knowledge-transfer system for persons who care
- Website: www.knots-project.eu
- Coordinator: An interactive knowledge-transfer system for persons who care
- Duration: 36 months
- Starting date: 01.07.2014
- Total budget: 2.451.150 €
- Public contribution: 1.396673 €
Objectives
DAPAS mainly tries to solve the problems currently perceived in the area of distribution of AAL-products. The main objective is to develop a holistic, scalable and market-ready AAL- product through using existing AAL-projects and products. The project also intends to build up the technical and organisational structures so that the product can be delivered smoothly throughout the whole service life cycle. During the project, we will evaluate the distribution process and impact of the packages on end-users in three countries – Portugal, Luxembourg and Austria – with varying cultures and languages.
Expected results and impact
Two of the facts which are analysed during the project are the (cost-)effectiveness and acceptance of the distribution process. As a result of the project, scientific statements to these facts should be clear. In addition, the effectiveness of service packages on the daily life of the users and their relatives from a user perspective shall be documented and the results will be utilised for further improvements. The acceptance of the different service packages from a market perspective is also an important measurement of the project and should be evident at the end of the project. The goal of the project is a market-ready product which does include all the predefined features.
Partners
Partners involved in the DAPAS project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| exthex GmbH | SME | Austria | www.exthex.com |
| IDEABLE SOLUTIONS SL | SME | Spain | www.ideable.net |
| AIT - Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH | R&D | Austria | www.ait.ac.at |
| University of Deusto, eVIDA | R&D | Spain | www.deusto.es |
| Steftung Hellef Doheem | End User | Luxembourg | www.shd.lu |
| Medical University of Vienna | R&D | Austria | www.meduniwien.ac.at |
| New Design University | R&D | Austria | www.ndu.ac.at |
| Cáritas Diocesana de Coimbra | End User | Portugal | www.caritascoimbra.pt |
| Red Cross Styria | End User | Austria | www.roteskreuz.at |
- Project name: DAPAS – Deploying AAL Packages at Scale
- Website: www.dapas-project.eu
- Coordinator: exthex GmbH
- Duration: 36 months
- Starting date: 01.09.2018
- Total budget: 2,3 Mio €
- Public contribution: 1,7 Mio €