Objectives
The HiStory project uses the concept of storytelling as a means to foster the social inclusion, cognitive activity, well-being of older people. The project aims at creating a solution that lets people tell, share and consume stories and connect them through a shared experience. The stories can further be used to create innovative services in the areas of tourism, education, and culture. Thereby, HiStory contributes to collective and active (oral) history making and, on an individual level, promotes successful ageing.
Expected results and impact
HiStory aims to build up a database with stories from older persons as well as a community that accesses these stories. Access is free for everybody. For organizations that want to use the content a license or membership model is planned. The objective is to have the commitment of 3 potential customers to pay for the solution within project duration. Telling and sharing their stories can enhance the quality of life of older persons, help build social connections, enhance participation and strengthen “ordinary voices”, and generate and preserve knowledge.
Partners
Partners involved in the project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| NOUS Wissensmanagement GmbH | SME | Austria | www.nousdigital.com |
| Lucerne University of applied Arts & Sciences-iHomeLab | R&D | Switzerland | www.iHomeLab.ch |
| AIT Austrian Institute of Technology | R&D | Austria | www.ait.ac.at |
| National Foundation for the Elderly | End user | The Netherlands | www.ouderenfonds.nl |
| Studio Dankl | SME | Austria | www.studiodankl.com |
| Vicino | End user | Switzerland | www.vicino-luzern.ch |
| Ijsfontain | SME | The Netherlands | www.ijsfontein.nl |
| City Council Zutphen | End User | The Netherlands | www.zutphen.nl |
- Project name: HiStory – Sharing your stories of your heritage
- Website: www.hi-story.eu
- Coordinator: NOUS Wissensmanagement GmbH
- Duration: 36 months
- Starting date: 04/2019
- Total budget: € 2.300.000
- Public contribution: € 1.300.000
CARU cares
In order to evaluate the acceptance and effectiveness of the solution, a main focus throughout the project are field tests of the CARU device and its functionalities. Today, CARU is on the market and ...
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Technology should make people’s lives simpler. CARU is a device that facilitates communication between elderly people, relatives and caregivers. It also provides relevant information about behaviour changes or similar to caregivers. Interaction with the device is carried out by voice commands, which is the most natural way of interaction for us humans. In the project, we will evaluate the acceptance of and the effectiveness for all stakeholders. Also, we will implement and test a completely new feature: Care documentation by voice, which could reduce time pressure and improve care quality.
Expected results and impact
As CARU is already commercially available, the project aims to optimize the impact of the solution to end-users. This includes the safety of elderly as well as their feeling of social inclusion and autonomy. We expect this to increase significantly by the use of CARU. For caregivers we strive to improve the attractiveness of the profession by decreasing time pressure and making processes more efficient. The new features of documentation by voice and announcement of the arrival time have a great potential for that (by saving time) and we aim to proof this during the project.
Partners
Partners involved in the project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| CARU AG | SME | Switzerland | www.caruhome.com |
| Bonacasa | SME | Switzerland | www.bonacasa.ch |
| Hochschule Luzern Tand A, iHomeLab | R&D | Switzerland | www.ihomelab.ch |
| Johanniter gGmbH | User | Austria | www.johanniter.at |
| Fachhoschule Wiener Grafik Design Werkstats | R&D | Austria | www.fhwn.ac.at |
| Schneeweis Wittmann Grafik Design Werkstat | SME | Austria | http://www.schneeweiswittmann.at/ |
| Senior Living Group | LARGE INDUSTRY | Belgium | www.srliving.be |
| Vienna University of Economics and Business | R&D | Austria | www.wu.ac.at |
- Project name: CARU cares
- Website: www.carucares.com
- Coordinator: Hochschule Luzern Tand A, iHomeLab
- Duration: 36 months
- Starting date: 06/2019
- Total budget: € 2.400.000
- Public contribution: € 1.200.000
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
Resilien-T
Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) causes mild but measurable changes in cognitive abilities in people. These changes are greater than would be expected for the affected person’s age, but they do not ...
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Many elderly people suffer from one or another Mild Cognitive Impairment (PwMCI). Among many is forgetfulness which may or may not progress to dementia. They are faced with doubt, worry and diminishing self-worth while often being afraid to look for help. We will develop RESILIEN-T to act as a coach to improve the PwMCI self-management in different dimensions such as nutrition, physical activities, social activities and cognitive training. RESILIEN-T does not give orders, but advice and encouragement. By putting the final decision in their hands the PwMCI can maintain their independence and dignity.
Expected results and impact
Help people with Cognitive impairment in living a healthy, active and meaningful life, being empowered by nutritional guidance, physical activity promotion, cognitive exercise, social activity and positive care planning. Support them in exploiting their individual’s residual competencies. Offer a services to People living with Mild Cognitive Impairment or early stage dementia that are usually difficult to reach by regular care organizations, which results in a care service vacuum.
Partners
Partners involved in the project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Istituto Nazionale Ricovero e cura anziani | R&D | Italy | www.inrca.it |
| Universita Politecnica delle Marche | R&D | Italy | www.univpm.it |
| University of Toronto | R&D | Canada | www.utoronto.ca |
| BSD design | SME | Switzerland | www.bsdesign.eu |
| Switzerland Innovation Park Biel/Bienne | SME | Switzerland | www.sipbb.ch |
| GoldenAge SARL | SME | Switzerland | www.amigoclub.me |
| Vilans | R&D | The Netherlands | www.nilans.nl |
| Compaan | SME | The Netherlands | www.uwcompaan.nl |
| Careyn | End user | The Netherlands | www.careyn.nl |
- Project name: Technology driven self-management for building resilience among people with early stage cognitive impairment – Resilien-T
- Website: https://www.resilien-t.eu/
- Coordinator: Istituto nazionale ricovero e cura anziani (INRCA)
- Duration: 36 months
- Starting date: 03/2019
- Total budget: € 2.340.000
- Public contribution: € 1.475.000
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
Elderly people are frequently affected by a decline of mental and physical abilities, which results in anxiety, frailty, loneliness and reclusiveness. Often these persons live alone, spatially separated from their families and friends, not able to meet or visit them on a regular basis. The risk of developing dementia can be reduced by playing challenging games, interacting with other people and doing physical exercises. Therefore, TACTILE will provide a user-friendly solution that addresses these challenges by providing a mixed reality software that offers board games that can be played remotely with family or friends, and physical training exercises accompanied by a virtual avatar.
Expected results and impact
TACTILE addresses older adults that wish to maintain an active life, to prevent cognitive and physical decline and to remain socially included. Therefore, TACTILE addresses on the one side social interaction, because it targets the need of elderly persons living alone to interact with their family or friends on a regular basis. On the other side, it addresses the challenge of insufficient mental activity as well as the insufficient physical activity of elderly persons. The innovative TACTILE project will be the starting point for the development and market introduction of a new generation solution, because mixed reality (MR) has never been brought to the target group before
Partners
Partners involved in the project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| CareCenter Software GmbH | SME | Austria | www.carecenter.at |
| AIT - Austrian Institute of Technology | R&D | Austria | www.ait.ac.at |
| CREAGY AG | SME | Switzerland | www.creagy.ch |
| Mythronics B.V. | SME | The Netherlands | www.mythronics.com |
| tanteLouise | End user | The Netherlands | tantelouise.nl |
| Gedächtnistrainingsakademie | End user | Austria | www.gedaechtnistraining.at |
- Project Name: TACTILE – Preventing Dementia and Social Exclusion with Mixed Reality Technology
- Website: http://mytactile.eu/
- Coordinator: CareCenter Software GmbH
- Duration: 30 months
- Starting Date: 03/2019
- Total Budget: € 1.800.000
- Public Contribution: € 1.100.000
Objectives
POSITIVE aims to solve loneliness of the seniors caused not by social isolation resulting from immobility – but by a lack of a meaningful purpose in life or disconnection and boredom even when active around people. The once most popular reason for living – family – is now harder to depend on. The job market after retirement is hostile. The top needs in Maslow’s hierarchy, like self-actualization, become more prominent. Seniors actively look for products catering that on the market but there is nothing like that in a way it is there for the younger generation.
Expected results and impact
The created platform will be offered and commercialized in most European countries 2 years after the projects’ end. It will aim to increase the perceived quality of life of seniors – meaningfulness, happiness and wellbeing. POSITIVE will facilitate an active engagement of users in promoting independence and engagement in activities of daily living. This will improve mental statuses (including self-esteem and a feeling of dignity), which would prevent medical decline. Carers and families will be able to experience reduced stress and carer burden, by seeing and supporting the seniors using the platform.
Partners
Partners involved in the project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reall | SME | Poland | |
| Maggioli SPA | Large Enterprise | Italy | https://www.maggioli.it/ |
| Bluepoint Consulting | Large Enterprise | Romania | www.bluepoint-it.ro |
| Ana Aslan International Foundation | End User | Romania | https://www.anaaslanacademy.ro/ |
| Eskilara S.Koop Txikia | SME | Spain | |
| Fondazione Santa Lucia | SME | Italy | https://www.hsantalucia.it/ |
| iHomeLab, Hochschule Luzern | R&D | Switzerland | https://www.hslu.ch |
- Project name: POSITIVE – Personalized platfOrm aSsisting senIors in healThy, fulfIlled and actiVe lifE
- Website: https://about.positive-aal.com
- Coordinator: Reall Sp. z o. o.
- Duration: 30 months
- Starting date: 05/2019
- Total budget: € 1.788.786
- Public contribution: € 1.189.686
Gift to Gift (GtG)
The project aims to co-create a novel collaborative economy initiative, which both assists and activates the elderly population living at home. The Initiative mimics the situations where a friend or ...
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As the population of elderly people in our society grows, so does the burden on our welfare system. At the same time, the group of elderly with skills and resources is also growing. We want to make this resource-pool available to the group of ‘elderly in need’.
Gift-to-Gift (GtG) will leverage the emerging ‘two-generation retirement generation’ with a collaborate economy approach to engage elderly in continued civic participation and help solve future welfare systems challenges.
Expected results and impact
We aim to gain sufficient insight to deliver on our envisaged goal: an economically sustainable senior-to-senior platform that will enable a task force of helpers to assist other less resourceful seniors with tasks in and around their homes. If we can facilitate citizen-to-citizen engagement among the senior population, the impact will not only be an increased quality of life for the GtG recipient, but also intrinsic and extrinsic rewards for the GtG helper. Our project adds what we call “Appreciation economy” to the variety of collaborative economy concepts.
Partners
Partners involved in the GtG project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Civics | SME | Denmark | www.civics.eu |
| SGWIA | R&D | The Netherlands | www.GezondheidFabriek.nl |
| Senior-Live | End User | The Netherlands | www.senior-live.nl |
| siosLIFE | SME | Portugal | www.sioslife.com |
- Project Name: Gift to Gift (GtG) – A senior to senior model for boosting the collaborative economy and active aging
- Website: aal.civics.eu
- Coordinator: Civics ApS
- Duration: 6 months
- Starting Date: 02/2019
- Total Budget: € 321.000
- Public Contribution: € 192.000
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
Infection with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is no longer an inevitable, terrifying death sentence. With the advent of effective antiretroviral therapy, HIV has been turned into a chronic illness that can be managed in the context of a life expectancy that is pretty close to normal. Living longer, however, is not the same as living in good health with a good quality of life: The lives of the growing population of older persons living with HIV are disproportionately affected by a serious number of physical, mental and social challenges. U-TOPIA sets the first step towards the empowerment of older HIV patients.
Expected results and impact
U-TOPIA is a small collaborative project preparing the ground for further R&D activities regarding older people with HIV. Its direct impact is expected on market development through technology and market research. Its indirect impacts are: patient surveys and the co-creation approach (direct patient observations, interviews with a high human-interest factor) will allow to adequately understand the ‘customer base’, the 50+ HIV patients. This provides an opportunity to fine-tune a business strategy and increase the chances for successful market development in this specific demographic segment.
Partners
Partners involved in the U-TOPIA project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| JOANNEUM RESEARCH | R&D | Austria | www.joanneum.at |
| UTOPIA_BXL | End User | Belgium | |
| GezondheidFabriek | R&D | The Netherlands | www.gezondheidfabriek.nl |
| HIV Vereniging Nederland | End User | The Netherlands | www.hivvereniging.nl |
| Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa | End User | Portugal | www.scml.pt |
| ABRACO | End User | Portugal | www.abraco.pt |
| OnlineSeminar | Large Industry | Belgium | www.onlineseminar.be |
| Waag | R&D | The Netherlands | www.waag.org |
- Project name: Towards Empowering Older Persons Living with HIV – U-TOPIA
- Website: www.u-topia.joanneum.at
- Coordinator: JOANNEUM RESEARCH Forschungsgesellschaft mbH
- Duration: 6 months
- Starting date: 01.12.2018
- Total Budget: € 250.000
- Public Contribution: € 200.000