Active@Home
Falls are one of the most common health related problems in the elderly population, representing more than 50% of the hospitalisations due to injuries. Falls are also considered one of the main ...
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Active@Home intends to be a holistic approach to increase physical activity of elderly population, while motivating them through captivating and challenging multi-player exergames, video games played through physical exercise. The user will be able to choose the type of exercise that suits him/her best: from sequences of games composed together to create workouts, dance exercises based on traditional dances from different European countries or Tai Chi training. With this, social capabilities will be promoted to foster community engagement and enhance cultural and cognitive aspects.
Expected results and impact
Any intervention aiming to prevent the occurrence of falls may result in a reduction of the direct costs related to the medical services and also indirect costs related to other health and care pathways (due to the lack of independence, social isolation, depression, among others). Impactful results on health, independence and functional capabilities, together with an analysis of the costs associated to the installation requirements and equipment, are expected to be sufficient to influence healthcare funders, community organisations and even public policies towards more appropriate management of falls in the older age.
Partners
Partners involved in the Active@Home project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dividat GmbH | SME | Switzerland | www.dividat.com |
| Fraunhofer Portugal (AICOS) | R&D | Portugal | www.fraunhofer.pt |
| ETH Zurich | R&D | Switzerland | www.ibws.ethz.ch |
| UNIE KBO | End User | The Netherlands | www.uniekbo.nl |
| Conforto em Casa, Lda. | End User | Portugal | www.comfortkeepers.com |
| MIRALab SARL | SME | Switzerland | miralab.com |
- Project name: Active@Home
- Website: http://www.active-at-home.com
- Coordinator: Dividat
- Duration: 36 months
- Starting Date: 01.05.2016
- Total budget: 2,5 mi €
- Public contribution: 1,5 mi €
Objectives
The SmartHeat project proposes to leverage on modern IoT (Internet of Things) technologies in order to radically change the home heating experience for health, comfort and well-being of elderly people. The IoT allows physical environments to be connected to the Internet by means of smart objects. A smart object can be defined as any physical entity enhanced with sensing/actuating, computation and communication capabilities. The goal will be achieved via the development of a smart, secure and elderly friendly ICT system for heating monitoring and control.
Expected results and impact
Improve self-management of older adults at home and to enhance autonomy.
The system is also able to send alert message to report or to inform secondary users about possible temperature settings which might be dangerous for the older adults. Besides enhance older adults’ autonomy, the system allow informal carers to have their social life outside home but at the same time have constant control of the proper home heating conditions of their older relatives.
Partners
Partners involved in the SmartHeat project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| TEAMNET INTERNATIONAL (Coordinator) | Large Industry | Romania | www.teamnet.ro |
| ModoSmart S.L. | SME | Spain | www.modosmart.com |
| MX-SI S.L. | SME | Spain | www.mx-si.net |
| SensorID s.n.c. | SME | Italy | www.sensorid.it |
| terzStiftung | End User | Switzerland | www.terzstiftung.ch |
| EURAG | End User | Austria | www.eurag-europe.org |
| Glukadvice | SME | The Netherlands | www.glukadvice.com |
| University of Geneva | R&D | Switzerland | www.unige.ch |
- Project name: SmartHeat (Smart, secure and user friendly heating monitoring and control for elderly people) – SmartHeat.AAL.EC
- Website: www.smartheat-aal.eu
- Coordinator: TEAMNET INTERNATIONAL
- Duration: 36 months
- Starting Date: 01.10.2015
- Total budget: € 2.746.870,69
- Public contribution: 45% National + 55% AAL
Contact
Cristina Stanica
E.: Cristina.Stanica@teamnet.ro
T.: +40 723 190 430
Monica Georgescu
E.: Monica.Georgescu@teamnet.ro
Phone: +40 723 766 075
Cristian Cheru
T.: +40 732 714 230
Objectives
Supporting senior Heart Failure patients, their family, relatives and friends, cardiologists and general healthcare professionals accessing innovative ICT solutions that promote an easier, wider and sustainable access to healthcare is the main goal of the SmartBEAT project. SmartBEAT offers an integrated solution to leverage patient self-care through autonomous condition monitoring and real-time feedback to their carers. Using SmartBEAT, it is possible to improve disease outcomes and enhance the quality of life of senior Heart Failure patients.
Expected results and impact
- A full–fledged, mobile and tailored integration of telemonitoring sensors for Heart Failure care that connects both primary and secondary end-users;
- Processing algorithms capable of identifying subtle changes on physiological parameters that may represent HF decompensations, preventing hospitalisation;
- An overall solution where caregivers, and potentially patients, can define their interests related to heart diseases and related drugs or procedures, and semantic processes will give back curated and valuable information from scientific and research papers.
Partners
Partners involved in the SmartBeat project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fraunhofer Portugal AICOS | R&D | Portugal | www.fraunhofer.pt |
| Centro Hospitalar São João | End User | Portugal | portal-chsj.min-saude.pt |
| Verhaert New Products & Services NV | SME | Belgium | www.verhaert.com |
| Remedus | SME | Belgium | www.remedus.be |
| Seniornett Norge | End User | Norway | www.seniornett.no |
| LifeonKey | SME | Israel | www.lifeonkey.com |
| VigiSense S.A. | SME | Switzerland | www.vigisense.com |
| KempenLIFE | End User | The Netherlands | www.kempenlife.nl |
| Stichting Smart Homes | R&D | The Netherlands | www.smart-homes.nl |
| Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto | R&D | Portugal | www.med.up.pt |
- Project name: SmartBEAT: Smart system for the management of Heart Failure in older adults
- Website: www.smartbeatproject.org
- Coordinator: Fraunhofer Portugal AICOS
- Duration: 36 months
- Starting Date: 01.05.2015
- Total budget: € 2.369.558,40
- Public contribution: € 1.415.915,32
Objectives
The main goal of the PersonAAL project is to extend the time older people can live in their home environment, increasing their autonomy and assisting them in carrying out activities of daily living by means of intelligent and intuitive web applications.
The project will provide an authoring environment and a run-time support to facilitate the development of accessible and personalised applications and adapt previously authored care applications to elderly users, their changing abilities, their environment and device features. Moreover this platform will be used to personalise a set of care applications.
Expected results and impact
The achievements of this project will be a platform for adaptation and end user development as well as three applications that are expected to substantially reduce the reliance on healthcare professionals by elderly persons. These applications include self-management features, (A) facilitating the use of these solutions by elderly, and (B) incorporating personalisation technology to enable the exact matching of specific features with the capabilities of the user. Potential external target organisations include assistive technology vendors, care givers organisations and health centres interested in offering improved services.
Partners
Partners involved in the PersonAAL project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Santer Reply SpA | Large Industry | Italy | www.reply.eu |
| Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche | R&D | Italy | www.isti.cnr.it |
| Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa | R&D | Portugal | www.fc.ul.pt |
| Plux Wireless Biosignals SA | SME | Portugal | www.plux.info |
| IBM Norway | Large Industry | Norway | www.ibm.com/no-no/ |
| Sunnaas Rehabilitation Hospital | End User | Norway | www.sunnaas.no |
| Università della Svizzera Italiana | R&D | Switzerland | www.arpage.ch |
| terzStiftung | End User | Switzerland | www.terzstiftung.ch |
- Project name: PersonAAL – Personalized web applications to improve quality of life and remote care for older adults
- Website: www.personaal-project.eu
- Coordinator: Santer Reply S.p.A.
- Duration: 36 months
- Starting Date: 01.10.2015
- Total budget: € 3.100.000,00
- Public contribution: € 1.700.000,00
Objectives
This project aims to provide an answer to societal challenges, by providing an innovative Organisational Life Assistant (OLA), a virtual presence that supports instrumental activities relating to daily living needs of older adults, allowing them to be more independent, self-assured and to have a healthier, safer and organised life. It also facilitates caregivers by supporting them on offering high-quality assistance; OLA will mediate and facilitate interaction (communication and collaboration) between senior citizens and their informal caregivers or other services or professionals, through technological devices such as standard computers, mobile devices (tablets) and home automation modules.
Expected results and impact
OLA will promote the maintenance of older adults in what is the most comfortable environment for them: their home. This will not only benefit elderly citizens, but also their families and the community as a whole, and therefore help foster social values. The improvement of the autonomy levels will also contribute to enhance the older adult’s capabilities and will enable increased confidence, making the elderly more active in today’s society and consequently less inclined to be confined in formal healthcare providers. This will lead to a more inclusive society while helping to counter societal and economic problems that an ageing population will inevitably provoke.
Partners
Partners involved in the OLA project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inovamais, S.A. | SME | Portugal | inovamais.eu |
| ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon | R&D | Portugal | www.iscte-iul.pt |
| Bay Zoltán Nonprofit Ltd. for Applied Research | R&D | Hungary | www.bayzoltan.hu |
| Comfort Keepers - Comfort at Home, Lda. | End User | Portugal | www.comfortkeepers.pt |
| Knowledge Society Association | End User | Poland | gb.pl.ssw.org.pl |
| Liquid Media AB | SME | Sweden | www.liquid.se |
- Project name: OLA – Organisational Life Assistant for future active ageing
- Website: http://project-ola.eu/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/organizationallifeassistant
- Coordinator: Inovamais, S.A.
- Duration: 30 months
- Starting Date: 01.03.2015
- Total budget: € 1.099.977,46
- Public contribution: € 731.342,37
Objectives
In the context of self-management and prevention of disease, the goal of MAESTRO is to provide clarification, orientation and advisory services to a variety of users, and motivate fieldwork players and manufacturing and product distributing companies to participate in enriching the collective knowledge which it represents. This will be done through several building stages, first defining preliminary evaluation tools and building upon an initial inventory of devices, connected or not, and then testing them in a Pilot phase, to end up with fieldwork findings and tiers-robust reinforcement of both the Reference framework and the assessment methodology, all this translated into a platform, the MAESTRO portal.
Expected results and impact
The MAESTRO project aims at building-up, testing and disseminating in the broad European context, through an open platform, a dynamic Reference Framework( RF refers to a broad concept corresponding to the French term of « Référentiel ») concerning monitoring and self-monitoring devices, connected or not.
The output will be a documented usage framework, with models, maps, supportive indications, metrics and modes of use for a variety of stakeholders, among whom, as a pivotal figure, we find the elderly, as well as tools for any user to post questions and demands and share information with any other user.
Partners
Partners involved in the MAESTRO project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| LIST | R&D | Luxembourg | www.list.lu |
| CoST | SME | Switzerland | www.coherentstreams.com |
| FST | SME | Switzerland | www.fstlab.ch |
| CNR | R&D | Italy | www.istc.cnr.it |
| I+ | SME | Italy | www.i-piu.it |
| DOMO | SME | Switzerland | www.domo-safety.com |
| Netwell | R&D | Ireland | www.netwellcasala.org |
| StatSports | SME | Ireland | www.statsports.com |
- Project name: MAESTRO: Sustainable Reference Framework evaluating quantified-self equipment and services for seniors
- Website: www.maestro-aal.eu
- Coordinator: Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), Luxembourg
- Duration: 30 months
- Starting Date: 01.10.2015
- Total budget: € 3.100.000,00
- Public contribution: € 1.900.000,00
Objectives
Internet-based and micro technologies have changed the way we live. But elderly people receiving care have not always benefited from these developments. IntegrAAL uses technology to help improve care for older people. Older people are often cared for by many different people, known as a circle of care. This circle may include informal carers as well as formal care from medical and social services. Sometimes it is difficult for the people in a circle of care to talk and share important information. IntegrAAL supports self-management and makes communication within a circle of care better, and smarter.
Expected results and impact
There are two types of impact measures for this project.
- Product Adoption Ratios: indications of how the product is being used by care providers and service users. It is our aim that carer apps become adopted and are used with a high frequency by care workers and service users.
- Care Outcomes: once the product is deployed and in use, the main measures to be tracked are improved social and health care outcomes. This includes outcomes regarding dehydration management, people with dementia and effectiveness of circles of care.
Partners
Partners involved in the IntegrAAL project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nourish Care Systems Ltd | SME | United Kingdom | www.nourishcare.co.uk |
| Dorset County Council | End User | United Kingdom | www.dorsetforyou.com |
| The university college vzw Odisee | R&D | Belgium | www.odisee.be |
| Huis voor Gezondheid | End User | Belgium | www.huisvoorgezondheid.be |
| Instituto Pedro Nunes | R&D | Portugal | www.ipn.pt |
| Associação de Desenvolvimento e Formação Profissional | End User | Portugal | www.adfp.pt |
| AlertiSugere Lda | SME | Portugal | www.cuidar.pt |
- Project name: Integration of AAL Components for Innovative Care Pathways – IntegrAAL
- Website: www.projectintegraal.eu
- Coordinator: Nourish Care Systems Ltd
- Duration: 30 months
- Starting Date: 02.01.2015
- Total budget: € 1.200.000,00
- Public contribution: € 820.000,00
Objectives
The INNOVCARE concept will aim to provide a novel support system with personalised assisted living ICT services for older adults in order to prolong their autonomy, improve their physical, mental and emotional well-being, prevent further dependence, and facilitate networks to support self-care. Better self-management does lead to healthier patients, more appropriate health service usage, and fewer unplanned hospital admissions. INNOVCARE involves healthcare professionals, informal caregivers and elderly as a team to work together for enhancing elderly health and well-being.
Expected results and impact
INNOVCARE contributes to raise awareness at European level on how ICT solutions and integrated health well-being programmes empower citizens to live healthy, active, which lead towards independent living. This knowledge and best practices help to build confidence in using technology and thus it creates demand for new services and products to aid independent living. INNOVCARE largely contributes to strengthening the European industrial position since it enables to build innovative services and to explore new and increasing markets all around the world.
Partners
Partners involved in the INNOVCARE project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wellness Telecom S.L. | SME` | Spain | www.wtelecom.es |
| Ingeniería y Soluciones informáticas del Sur, S.L. | SME | Spain | www.isoin.es |
| Taniwa Solutions | SME | Spain | www.taniwa.es |
| Life On Key Israel Ltd | SME | Israel | www.lifeonkey.com |
| Smart Homes | End User | The Netherlands | www.smart-homes.nl |
| KempenLIFE | End User | The Netherlands | www.kempenlife.nl |
| Ninthway C.V. | SME | The Netherlands | www.ninthway.eu |
| Seniornett Norge | End User | Norway | www.seniornett.no |
- Project name: Open ICT platforms and technologies to reduce and prevent the social and economic impact of elders care (INNOVCARE)
- Website: www.innovcare.org
- Coordinator: Wellness Telecom S.L.
- Duration: 30 months
- Starting Date: 01.02.2016
- Total budget: € 1.732.740,00
- Public contribution: € 994.353,00
Objectives
Europe faces the problem of not only having an ageing population, but also a decreasing group of formal carers. CareInMovement (CiM) tackles this challenge and innovates the way we think about care of the elderly by using advanced ICT. On the one hand, it aims at increasing the number of carers and building up a sustainable care community by mobilising and empowering volunteers and family carers. And on the other hand, it supports the care recipients’ side to prolong independent living by maintaining the current health status through enhancing everyday life activities by proposing individually tailored motion activities.
Expected results and impact
CiM involves its users in meaningful activities that contribute to improve their personal health conditions. Vitality and physical well-being may be enhanced and ideally CiM positively impacts on people’s mental well-being as well. The extension of care communities by the integration of volunteers relieves family carers. They are able to better manage stress and reduce the negative impact of care activities. Further CiM enables social care organisations to organise care more effectively and efficiently. The roadmap for market launch will be implemented within one year after project end.
Partners
Partners involved in the CiM project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft m.b.H. | R&D | Austria | www.salzburgresearch.at |
| ilogs mobile software GmbH | SME | Austria | www.ilogs.com |
| Eichenberger Szenografie | SME | Switzerland | www.szenografie.com |
| Vienna University of Economics and Business | R&D | Austria | www.wu.ac.at |
| bit media e-solutions GmbH | Large Industry | Austria | www.bitmedia.at |
| Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg | R&D | Austria | www.sportwissenschaft.uni-salzburg.at |
| ALDIA Cooperativa Sociale | End User | Italy | www.aldia.it |
| Hilfswerk Salzburg | End User | Austria | www.hilfswerk.at |
- Project name: Empowering communities to care by combining smart technology and personal help to maintain mobility – CareInMovement (CiM)
- Website: http://www.careinmovement.eu/
- Coordinator: Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft m.b.H.
- Duration: 36 months
- Starting Date: 01.10.2015
- Total budget: € 2.087.000,00
- Public contribution: € 1.180.000,00
Contact
DI (FH) Mag. Cornelia Schneider
E.: cornelia.schneider@salzburgresearch.at
T.: 0662 2288 222
Objectives
ENSAFE aims at supporting more effective prevention and self-care strategies by creating a smarter, more accessible and versatile link among the elderly person, their living environment and the support network around them by creating an elderly-oriented, network-based services aimed at fostering independent life. The service vision is built upon a layer of existing technologies, encompassing mobile communication, environmental sensing and clinical monitoring. Within the project the technologies will be further developed and integrated into a common framework which, in turn, will provide the basis for implementing innovative services.
Expected results and impact
An integrated system composed of a set of networked devices including a smart phone with built-in sensors, wearable sensors and environment sensors. Due to the open and flexible system design new sensors can be added, allowing for a constant enlargement of the range of elderly users with specific needs and conditions. Pilot applications are set in four different pilot countries representing a wide spectrum of development levels, living and service standards. A business model will be developed to describe how the product service will create, deliver and capture the value of the innovation and will consider the market, economic, social, cultural and other contextual factors across Europe.
Partners
Partners involved in the ENSAFE project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Regionaal Zorg Communicatie Centrum | End User | The Netherlands | www.rzcc.nl |
| GOCIETY® | SME | The Netherlands | www.gociety.nl |
| University of Technology Eindhoven | R&D | The Netherlands | www.tue.nl |
| Me.Te.Da. S.r.l. | SME | Italy | www.meteda.it |
| PROGES | Large Industry | Italy | www.proges.it |
| Università degli Studi di Parma | R&D | Italy | www.unipr.it |
| Gaia Systems AB | SME | Sweden | www.gaia.se |
| SICS Swedish ICT AB | R&D | Sweden | www.sics.se |
| North West Coast Academic Health Science Network | End User | Sweden | www.nwcahsn.nhs.uk |
| ICE Creates Ltd | SME | United Kingdom | www.icecreates.com |
- Project name: ENSAFE – Elderly-oriented, Network-based Services Aimed at independent life
- Website: www.ensafe-aal.eu
- Coordinator: RZCC (Regionaal ZorgCommunicatie Centrum)
- Duration: 36 months
- Starting Date: 01.07.2015
- Total budget: € 2.147.100
- Public contribution: € 1.200.234,89