COGNIVITRA
Cognitive care is largely dependent on traditional methods, only feasible in the presence of a health professional. These are centered in institutions, lacking technological tools and away from ...
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The trend for the upcoming years in terms of care and cure integration is characterized by shifting interventions to the home environment. COGNIVITRA will develop an ICT-based solution for cognitive vitality training at home. The growth in the incidence of different neurodegenerative diseases that leads to cognitive impairment is a growing problem worldwide. However, current care systems lack resources to address the growing number of patients requiring intervention.
Expected results and impact
COGNIVITRA will address the need for remote monitoring of patients’ cognitive and physical evolution for longer and more continuous periods, and for a more collaborative network for health professionals and carers. COGNIVITRA aims improving overall Quality of Life for primary end-users in at least 5% scoring in WHOQOL-OLD; reducing stress for carers (secondary end-users) at least 10% on Zarit Burden interview; containing the costs associated with healthcare for people at risk of cognitive impairment.
Neuroinova estimates to launch COGNIVITRA in the market by the end of 2022.
Partners
Partners involved in the project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| IPN | R&D | Portugal | www.ipn.pt |
| NIV | SME | Portugal | www.cogweb.pt |
| PSSJD | End user | Spain | www.pssjd.org |
| RHZ | End user | Luxembourg | www.rehazenter.lu |
- Project name: COGNItive VItality TRAining at home – COGNIVITRA
- Website: http://cognivitra.las.ipn.pt
- Coordinator: Instituto Pedro Nunes
- Duration: 36 months
- Starting date: 02/2019
- Total budget: € 773.072,54
- Public contribution: € 581.015,28
Contact
António Cunha
E.: cunha@ipn.pt, T:. +351239700933
João Quintas
E.: jquintas@ipn.pt, T.: +351239700933
Objectives
The project develops and tests a 3D location sensor infrastructure to be deployed in serviced elderly homes. For the end-user, the proposed monitoring system alerts not only incidents like fall detection, but also provides insight in the end-user’s condition. In addition, the system reports activities of care personnel so that professional care providers receive automated feedback on effectiveness of their services. The infrastructure grows from a Home Automation comfort proposition into high-intensity surveillance as the client gets older, hence adding value to serviced elderly real-estate.
Expected results and impact
The project will increase Quality of Life for Primary and secondary end-users. It will respect privacy (no cameras), integrates well in user’s daily life (service take-up) and respects their dignity (no stigma). Urgent incidents (e.g. fall) are reported with less false negatives (<1%) and positives (<10%). It will increase care worker’s effectiveness (eliminates reporting “red tape”, so that more quality time is available to do the job). We primarily aim at serviced institutions, in which we observe the best business potential. We aim to start deployments within 1 year after project, targeting >1000 users.
Partners
Partners involved in the project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| MV | SME | Belgium | www.magicview.tv |
| ARX-IT | SME | Switzerland | www.arxit.com |
| FhP-AICOS | R&D | Portugal | www.aicos.fraunhofer.pt |
| TERZ | End user | Switzerland | www.terzstiftung.ch |
Project name: Indoor Activity Notification for Vigilance Services (IANVS)
Website: http://www.aal-ianvs.eu/
Coordinator: Magicview Connected Products Belgium BVBA
Duration: 24 months
Starting Date: 03/2019
Total budget: € 2.300.000
Public contribution: € 1.250.000
Objectives
The area of personal hygiene and toilet use is an important area in daily life which unfortunately has not yet found much interest in the AAL community. Toilet4me addresses ageing people and persons of all ages with impairments/disabilities and their needs when using a toilet outside home in public or semi-public environments (e.g. in community centres, shopping malls, theatres, hotels etc.). The aim of Toilet4me is to elaborate and verify a detailed concept for a potential future larger RDI project for actually implementing and evaluating the envisaged Toilet4me system.
Expected results and impact
For older persons and persons with impairments/disabilities improved body stability by optimal sitting height, supporting sitting-down and standing-up transition, improved safety and thereby motivation/empowerment to leave home and participate in social and active life. For secondary users reduced workload, and enhanced possibilities of providing for outside activities. For institutions, hotels, other semi-public places offering better service for community, enter important emerging market (accessible tourism).
Toilet4me
Partners involved in the Toilet4me project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| TU Wien (Vienna University of Technology) | R&D | Austria | www.tuwien.ac.at |
| CareCenter Software GmbH | SME | Austria | www.carecenter.at |
| Resto VanHarte | End User | The Netherlands | www.restovanharte.nl |
| Instituto Pedro Nunes | R&D | Portugal | www.ipn.pt |
| BEIA Consult International | SME | Romania | www.beiaro.eu |
| Cáritas Diocesana de Coimbra | End User | Portugal | www.caritascoimbra.pt |
| Sanmedi bv | SME | The Netherlands | www.sanmedi.nl |
| Ihcare, Lda | SME | Portugal | www.ihcare.pt |
- Project name: Toilet4me – Study on personalised toilets supporting active living in (semi-) public environments
- Website: www.toilet4me-project.eu
- Coordinator: TU Wien (Vienna University of Technology)
- Duration: 6 months
- Starting date: 11/2018
- Total budget: € 280.001 (t.b.c.)
- Public contribution: € 198.846 (t.b.c.)
Objectives
Chronic pain affects more than 1.5 billion individuals globally – and is the single most prevalent symptom among geriatric patients. Chronic pain has tremendous impact on individuals’ well-being, lifestyle, independence, activity and comfort, and the condition is associated with the spiral degeneration of general quality of life of older adults OR: with increased disability, deconditioning and hence, increased change on frailty.
This AAL project, ActiVITAE, aims to help people ageing well by alleviating geriatric chronic pain using a completely novel and patented, evidence-based ICT-based pain management system. The evidence-based solution, Vibration Induced Treatment by Abdominal Excitation (VITAE), is disruptive and provides a pleasant, non-invasive Vagal Nerve Stimulation (VNS), utilising abdominal vibro-tactile stimulation of the Pacinian corpuscles. VITAE take advantage of the well-documented principle based on induction of nerve signals which travel through the sensory nerve system via the Vagal Nerve to the brain – and when combined with a relaxing audio track, the pain and anxiety centres in the brain are inhibited, reducing symptoms of not only chronic pain but also depression, which (unsurprisingly) often accompanies chronic pain.
By thus reducing the amount of medicine used while still treating the conditions, it is the objective of the project to significantly reduce pain symptoms, reduce side-effects, reduce costs, improve the quality of life and self-sufficiency of the geriatric patients.
The objectives of this project are to document the effects of VITAE on geriatric patients, to identify obstacles in the implementation of VITAE within clinics and finally to establish a foundation for further collaboration beyond this project.
The VITAE is designed to all people suffering from chronic benign pain and/or depression – certainly also geriatric chronic pain patients, currently in clinic care but eventually also at home.
Expected results and impact
- The objectives ActiVITAE are to document the effects of VITAE on geriatric patients, to identify obstacles in the implementation of VITAE within clinics and finally to establish a foundation for further collaboration beyond this project.
- We expect ActiVITAE will demonstrate and clinical validate a totally new approach to help people ageing well by alleviating geriatric chronic pain and/or depression.
- A significant part of the ActiVITAE project will be dedicated to direct integration with end-users and end-user’s organization for qualitative interview, think aloud testing and treatment tests.
- The outcome will be for a thorough documentation of wishes and needs of users at all levels, which will support identification of shortcomings and areas to improve the ActiVITAE– together with user’s feedback on the willingness to use and adopt the VITAE regularly. To achieve the overall objectives and outcome, the ActiVITAE project comprises the following qualitative and qualitative objectives:
- To understand the needs, wishes and routines of the end-users and stakeholders
- To test and evaluate usability/acceptance of the platform in real environment with of end-users
- To validate the value proposition (treatment efficacy) of VITAE with end users
- To assess the business potential and strategy for VITAE
- It is expected ActiVITAE will show a significant, positive effect on the geriatric chronic pain patients participating, at least 50% reduction of pain, meaning that the level of pain they experience daily will drop to a much more manageable level, compared to conventional, pharmacological treatment, which by no means is obstructed by VITAE.
- It is expected that VITAE treatment will show no side-effects, meaning that not only can VITAE reduce pain, it can also reduce those side-effects, which are a
problem for most chronic pain patients. - It is expected that VITAE treatment will demonstrate a freer and more active lifestyle from the patients with at least a 30% improvement in quality of life. Though this increased activity will likely be quite individual, we do expect to see more active geriatric patients doing more exercise, as chronic pain leads to
limitations in daily activities, which will further reduce their symptoms and help them cope with their conditions.
- Consequently, with improved mobility, activity and less pain, we hope to see hospitalised geriatric patients becoming more self-sufficient, getting transferred to ambulatory care or even being discharged from the hospital altogether, although the latter likely requires a home treatment VITAE system in the market.
- It is also expected that clinics and hospitals need to allocate less personnel to care for the increasingly self-sufficient patients. With healthcare costs on the rise in advanced economies, particularly due to an increasing number of geriatric patients, reducing these patient’s financial footprint on the health sector is a vital part of ensuring fiscal sustainability of the health systems.
- Given a successful ActiVITAE project, we estimate a treatment solution can be ready for a first market introductory in 2021 – and we do foresee an increasing
need and demand for more convenient, effective and cost-competitive services like the VITAE treatment service.
Partners
Partners involved in the ActiVITAE project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| m@h | SME | Denmark | www.mediathand.com |
| UMCG | R&D | The Netherlands | www.umch.nl |
| UMCG | End User | The Netherlands | www.umch.nl |
| OSPD | R&D | Italy | www.unige.it |
| OSPD | End User | Italy | www.unige.it |
- Project name: ActiVITAE (Vibro-tactile VNS to alleviate geriatric chronic pain)
- Website: www.pacinimedico.com
- Coordinator: mediathand ApS
- Duration: 10 months
- Starting Date: 03/2019
- Total budget: € 360.000
- Public contribution: € 270.000
Objectives
People suffering from brain degeneration like Alzheimer dementia can be helped by stimulation of their memory, meaningful activities and an improved level of physical activity in which all the help of many people around them is wanted for everyday life. The ReMIND project wants to develop a robot and tablet that can support the people with dementia and their care givers. The supportive role of this robot/tablet should be seen as interactive agenda, library of music, pictures and exercises that guarantee the desired stimulation of patient and caregiver.
Expected results and impact
- After 2 years we expect a detainment or slowing of deterioration of the quality of life and mood of the patients (with these progressive diseases)
- Also an improvement of the quality of life of the caregivers
- We expect a deceleration or stabilization of the progress in physical and cognitive decline of the patients
- It is expected that in 1 year after finishing the project that the solution will be marketed
- The first 5 years of marketing, we will aim at selling 1 bot /1000 persons with dementia with the following 5 years an increase to 1 bot /100 PwD
Partners
Partners involved in the ReMIND project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zora Robotics | SME | Belgium | www.zorarobotics.be |
| Universiteit Gent | R&D | Belgium | www.ugent.be |
| Technical University of Cluj-Napoca | R&D | Romania | www.utcluj.ro |
| University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Victor Babes” Timisoara | R&D | Romania | www.umft.eu |
| Ovos Media GmbH | SME | Austria | www.ovos.at |
| University of Applied Sciences - FH Campus Wien | R&D | Austria | www.fh-campuswien.ac.at |
| Medizinische Universität Wien | R&D | Austria | www.meduniwien.ac.at |
- Project name: Robotic ePartner for Multitarget INnovative activation of people with Dementia
- Website: www.zorarobotics.be
- Coordinator: Zora Robotics NV
- Duration: 36 months
- Starting date: 01.10.2018
- Total budget: € 2.049.464
- Public contribution: € 1.379.554
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
Objectives
The CoME project provides a solution to reduce the number of seniors that demand care services by way of disease prevention and health self-management. Through miniaturised always-on sensors, seniors will be allowed to self-report themselves whenever appropriate in a non-intrusive way and send this information to professional caregivers to predict long-term state thanks to the analysis of these activity patterns.
It also eases the work of informal caregivers providing them with care tutorials and a match-making tool that facilitates care distribution between them and other caregivers.
Expected results and impact
- Reducing the number of seniors that will demand for care through disease prevention and health self-management
- Easing the access to care services by seniors to obtain a high-quality care at home and in the community
- Extracting interesting conclusions from the analysis of users’ activity patterns
- Improving informal caregivers and professionals support
- Reducing informal caregivers working charge
Partners
Partners involved in the CoME project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| HI-Iberia Ingenieria y Proyectos SL | SME | Spain | www.hi-iberia.es |
| Biomedical Research Institute for Health in Lleida | End User | Spain | www.irblleida.org |
| University of Geneva | R&D | Switzerland | www.unige.ch |
| Vigisense | SME | Switzerland | www.vigisense.com |
| ConnectedCare services BV | SME | The Netherlands | www.connectedcare.nl |
| Pannon Business Network Assciation | End User | Hungary | www.pbn.hu |
- Project name: Caregivers and Me, CoME
- Website: www.come-aal.eu
- Coordinator: HI-Iberia Ingeniería y Proyectos SL
- Duration: 36 months
- Starting Date: 01.12.2015
- Total budget: € 2.338.834,53€
- Public contribution: € 1.320.650,98€
Objectives
Lifestyle monitoring can reduce caregiver’s distress and thereby extend the period that the informal caregiver can sustain the care and support needs for the PwD. With lifestyle monitoring, carers have insight in the daily pattern of a person with dementia and thereby communication between both can be enhanced. Nevertheless, lifestyle monitoring is unidirectional without the PwD in the communication loop. To support integrated person centred care, we add social robotics to lifestyle monitoring in the European eWare project to support bidirectional communication. Furthermore, the lifestyle monitoring sensors add context awareness to the social robot and the social robot provides an interface between the PwD and the (in)formal carer. With increasing context awareness, the social robot can provide context relevant suggestions to the PwD.
The main project goals of eWare are focused on outcomes:
- reduce subjective stress of the informal carers and the patient community,
- enhance quality of life of the informal carer and person with dementia,
- support communication and information between formal and informal careers.
The technology and services used in eWare consist of existing lifestyle monitoring or life pattern monitoring connected and integrated with novel support robots.
The eWare eco-system is characterised by the integration of two technologies: the lifestyle monitoring of Sensara (motion sensors and open/close sensors) and the social robotic technology of Tinybots. To realise the eWare eco-system and integrate these technologies, three developments need to take place:
- eWare Cloud that hosts core data
- eWare mobile application for the caregivers
- eWare API enables the Sensara technology and Tinybot technology to interface with the newly developed eWare eco-system.
Expected results and impact
Expected Impact on quality of life For people with dementia
Living an active and meaningful life with support of eWare can initiate activities for the person with dementia, while the formal- and informal carer can monitor the daily activity level and act accordingly. The informal carer can be reassured by the lifestyle monitoring in the house and the communication in such a way that he/she can give the person with dementia more space to life. The communication possibilities will trigger the person with dementia to become active without the necessary involvement of communication with others, and enable people with dementia to stay in contact with others. Lifestyle monitoring provides insight into the short- and long-term life patterns of a person with dementia, whereby it can result in better knowledge of the person’s specific – and eventually unserved – needs and how the formal and informal care can be adjusted accordingly.
Expected Impact on quality of life
For informal and professional carers, eWare will reduce stress and care burden. The goal is to optimise these effects.
Build resilience
The current in use lifestyle monitoring technology can build resilience among informal carers, as shown in practice in several projects across The Netherlands and Italy with people with dementia and their informal carers.
Improve quality, efficiency and effectiveness of care
The improvement of quality, efficiency and effectiveness of the care can be met by early warning for crisis situations (e.g. restlessness during the night, excessive toilet use indicates a possible bladder infection, prolonged inactivity in the kitchen which may indicate decreased food intake, etc.) provided by the lifestyle monitoring.
Expected impact on the market
eWare will contribute to a large(r) use of ICT/technology for people with dementia and their supporting community. Lifestyle monitoring is in use at the target group but in limited numbers. The planned developments in combination with large-scale trials in four countries – varying in geographical location from northern Europe to the south – with varying cultures and care financing systems – brings it a leap further.
We further foresee more European collaboration, including end-users, industry and other stakeholders in the value chain. eWare creates new European cooperation and is fully aware of the need for the European dimension, in particular in respect to creating a sustainable business model that can be applied across Europe. We further expect savings for the social/care system as people with dementia live in their homes for longer, thus delaying the move to institutionalised care. Currently available results show a positive trend that the current in use lifestyle monitoring technology can postpone the nursing home admission, but can also detect possible health problems at an early stage. The planned developments have the goal to strengthen this effect.
Partners
Partners involved in the eWare project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vilans, national expert enter for the long-term care for The Netherlands | R&D | The Netherlands | www.vilans.nl |
| Sensara B.V. | SME | The Netherlands | www.sensara.eu |
| Tinybots B.V. | SME | The Netherlands | www.tinybots.nl |
| ZZG Zorggroep | End User | The Netherlands | www.zzgzorggroep.nl |
| INRCA | R&D | Italy | www.inrca.it |
| Universita Politecnica Delle Marche | R&D | Italy | www.univpm.it |
| JEF S.r.l. | SME | Italy | www.jef.it |
| terzStiftung | End User | Switzerland | www.terzstiftung.ch |
| NTNU | R&D | Norway | www.ntnu.edu |
| ASCOM | Large Industry | Norway | www.ascom.com |
| Stjørdal Kommune | End User | Norway | www.stjordal.kommune.no |
- Project name : Early Warning (by Lifestyle Monitoring) Accompanies Robotics Excellence
- Website: http://aal-eware.eu
- Coordinator : Vilans
- Duration : 36 Months
- Starting date : 01.06.2017
- Total budget : mi €2.2
- Public contribution : mi €1.3
Objectives
There is one very common appliance which we use several times a day which has not changed since its invention: our toilet.
The iToilet project addresses the needs of older (or physically disabled) persons when using a toilet by envisioning a supportive computer enhanced toilet adapting to the individual user needs of older users.
The project also addresses the needs of care persons when providing assistance to old users in the toilet room.
Expected results and impact
iToilet develops a toilet system for private and for institutional use. Field evaluation in an institutional setting ensures the involvement of a relevant number of end-users living at home with a significant diversity while at the same time guaranteeing professional support by experienced experts.
The iToilet system will provide new services which to our knowledge mostly are not available up to now in a modular commercially available system for the end user groups.
Partners
Partners involved in the iToilet project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vienna University of Technology | R&D | Austria | www.igw.tuwien.ac.at |
| Santis Kft. | SME | Hungary | www.santis.org |
| Smart Com d.o.o. | SME | Slovenia | www.smart-com.si |
| Carecenter Software GmbH | SME | Austria | www.carecenter.at |
| CS Caritas Socialis GmbH | Large Industry | Austria | www.cs.or.at |
| Országos Orvosi Rehabilitációs Intézet | R&D | Hungary | www.rehabint.hu |
| Synthema srl | SME | Italy | www.synthema.it |
- Project name: ICT-enhanced Toilet Supporting Active Life – iToilet
- Website: http://www.itoilet-project.eu
- Coordinator: TU Wien, Institute for Design and Assessment of Technology
- Duration: 30 months
- Starting date: 01.04.2016
- Total budget: 1,5 mi €
- Public contribution: 1,0 mi €
Contact
TU Wien, Institut für Gestaltungs- und Wirkungsforschung – Favoritenstrasse 9-11/187-2b – A-1040 Wien
E.: itoilet-tuw@fortec.tuwien.ac.at
T.: +43-1-58801-187701,
Objectives
The motivation behind gAALaxy is to support older adults in staying autonomously and socially active in their familiar environment and in introducing them to AAL-technologies while using an ambient and activating approach. The unique holistic approach of gAALaxy is the merging of stand-alone solutions that support elderly people in their core areas of life by combining home automation with AAL products and services on an adaptable and modular “AAL ready Smart Home” system that fits into the changing life phases of the user.
Expected results and impact
Next to the expected result that market-ready AAL-solutions will benefit from the interoperability created by gAALaxy and the creation of AAL scenarios that also make use of the capabilities of Smart Home solutions the project aims to measure the effects on Quality of Life aspects by primary as well as secondary end-users. By doing so the project will, besides providing new standardised APIs, at like a business catalyst for AAL products to easier reach customers and sales channels. Even after the project duration it is planned to have an ongoing cooperation based on gAALaxy to integrate more solutions and to develop AAL scenarios using other technologies.
Partners
Partners involved in the gAALaxy project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Innsbruck | R&D | Austria | www.uibk.ac.at |
| University of Antwerp | R&D | Belgium | www.uantwerpen.be |
| European Academy of Bolzano / Bozen | R&D | Italy | www.eurac.edu |
| Austrian Red Cross – Freiwillige Rettung Innsbruck | End User | Austria | www.roteskreuz-innsbruck.at |
| Privatklinik Villa Melitta – Casa di Cura | End User / SME | Italy | www.villamelitta.it |
| CogVis GmbH | SME | Austria | www.cogvis.at |
| Fifthplay n.v. | SME | Belgium | www.fifthplay.com |
| SIS Consulting GmbH | SME | Austria | www.sis-consulting.com |
| SF1 Bvba | SME | Belgium | www.sf1.services |
- Project name: gAALaxy – The universal system for independent and interconnected living at home
- Website: www.gaalaxy.eu
- Coordinator: University of Innsbruck – Department of Strategic Management, Marketing and Tourism
- Duration: 30 months
- Starting date: 01.05.2016
- Total budget: 3,785,408.81 €
- Public contribution: 2,072,994.94 €