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
iCareCoops
iCareCoops is a new, ambitious 2-year project, that tackles the increasing demand for elderly care at a time of limited resources. Eight partners from seven European countries create novel ICT-driven ...
Read moreObjectives
- ELABORATE the foundation of iCareCoops to support and promote elderly care cooperatives by conducting research on existing best-practices of various domains.
- STUDY concepts, approaches, and workflows of care communities in Europe.
- BUILD an innovative, web-based software solution enabling collaboration & cooperation.
- INTEGRATE existing AAL gateways, devices, and services on the platform.
- IMPLEMENT, demonstrate and validate iCareCoops in a realistic pilot environment.
- DEVELOP sustainable strategies for the rollout of elderly care cooperatives in Europe.
Expected results and impact
- Elderly people benefit from iCareCoops’ cooperative model because of their increased purchasing power, access to AAL solutions, and control over decision making in the community, which ultimately leads to enhanced autonomy and better quality of life.
- Care organisations will improve their interaction with elderly people, their service efficiency, and the integration of informal carers especially in rural regions.
- iCareCoops facilitates the reduction of care costs, advancements in healthcare innovation, and the promotion of a sense of community and sharing.
Partners
Partners involved in the iCareCoops project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| SYNYO GmbH | SME | Austria | www.synyo.com |
| TEAMNET INTERNATIONAL | Large Industry | Romania | www.teamnet.ro |
| Cit Development S.L. | SME | Spain | citdev.com |
| iDeal Development | SME | Denmark | idealdev.dk |
| Cooperatives Europe asbl | SME | Belgium | coopseurope.coop |
| University of Applied Sciences Winterthur | R&D | Switzerland | www.zhaw.ch |
| VIA University College | R&D | Denmark | www.viauc.com |
| Zveza društev upokojencev Slovenije | End User | Slovenia | www.zdus-zveza.si |
| Senior Citizen Cooperative Riedlingen | End User | Germany | www.martin-riedlingen.de |
- Project name: iCareCoops – Fostering Care Cooperatives in Europe by Building an Innovative Platform with ICT-based & AAL-driven Services
- Website: project.icarecoops.eu
- Coordinator: SYNYO GmbH
- Duration: 26 months
- Starting Date: 01.05.2015
- Total budget: € 1.813.733,00
- Public contribution: € 1.107.720,00
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
For most elderly chronic patients a main element of Quality of Life is to live as long as possible in their own home and being cared for by spouses and/or family members. This model nowadays is not as solid as it was. Further factors- increasing share of women
professionally active- have furthermore caused reduction of family-based care supply.
The proposed ITC- enabled home care solution should improve the quality of life of
- patients who after a (clinical) event prefer to follow-up convalescence in their own homes
- as well as of their informal carers who respect such concerns.
Expected results and impact
The social impact of the ICT-enabled care will be assessed on the micro-level by clinical evaluation of the Quality of Life (EQ5D protocol) and on the macro-level by health-economic analysis of clinical results extrapolated The ethical impact of this proposal should be a connected carer: with the care recipient in order to obtain and deliver vital information without permanent
physical presence; and with peers and professional caregivers in order to receive, give and share experience.
Partners
Partners involved in the USECARE project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| European Medical Network EMN | SME | Switzerland | www.emn.net |
| University of Basle, Institute for Nursing Science | R&D | Switzerland | www.nursing.unibas.ch |
| Tecnologias para la Salud y el Bienestar | SME | Spain | www.tsbtecnologias.es |
| Open-Evidence | SME | Spain | www.open-evidence.com |
| University Hospitals of Northern Norway/ Norvegian Center for Integrated Care and Telemedicine | R&D | Norway | www.telemed.no |
| University of Oslo, Faculty of Medicine, Dept. of Health Management and Economics | R&D | Norway | www.med.uio.no |
| Assuta Medical Centres | End User | Israel | www.en.assuta.co.il |
- Project name: Use Cases for Informal Care
- Coordinator: European Medical Network EMN
- Website: www.usecare.eu
- Duration: 27 months
- Starting date: 01.05.2015
- Total budget: EUR 2’681’296
- Public contribution: EUR 1’333’560
Objectives
The objective of the PETAL Project is to provide a platform able to increase elderly autonomy and assist them in carrying out activities of daily living. In particular, we aim to support older adults affected by mild dementia with useful and usable means to increase their awareness and control of their current lifestyle by providing them with relevant and tailored information in an intuitive and natural manner. This will be achieved through an intelligent platform able to monitor users’ behaviour (movements, speech, interactions) and support personalised control of lights and appliances in their environment.
Expected results and impact
The main features of the platform for supporting people with dementia at early stage will be:
- Personalisation Web-based tools for caregivers with usable interaction metaphors to specify how the lighting and appliances should behave in the elderly home;
- Middleware able to monitor actual elderly behaviour including their speech at home and to provide meaningful representations of such behaviours to care givers;
- Intelligent support for analysing elderly behaviour and inferring further adaptation and personalisation strategies, in particular for the lighting system;
- Validation of the approach and the platform in a number of field trials.
Important success metrics will be flexibility, cost and benefit of the proposed solution with respect to traditional approaches. The envisioned solution can contribute to support different groups of beneficiaries: older adults, their informal carers and the health workforce.
Partners
Partners involved in the PETAL project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche | R&D | Italy | www.hiis.isti.cnr.it |
| Apollis - Istituto di ricerca sociale e demoscopia s.n.c. | SME | Italy | www.apollis.it |
| Bartenbach GmbH | SME | Austria | www.bartenbach.com |
| Synthema srl | SME | Italy | www.synthema.it |
| Fondazione Santa Lucia | End User | Italy | www.hsantalucia.it |
| Fundaţia Ana Aslan International | End User | Romania | www.anaaslanacademy.ro |
| Ideable Solutions, SL | SME | Spain | www.ideable.net |
- Project name: PErsonalizable assisTive Ambient monitoring and Lighting
- Website: http://www.aal-petal.eu/
- Coordinator: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
- Duration: 36 months
- Starting date: 01.10.2017
- Total budget: EUR 1.904.527,00
- Public contribution: EUR 1.194.028,90
Objectives
Memories are important for dementia patients; they influence how they act and feel nowadays. However, for people around them, it is often hard to explore what is really going on in their beloved one’s mind. In MI-Tale we develop a digital and interactive game to recall and record memories. This tool contains existing material such as historical pictures and video’s, but also allows the user to add own material. In this way it helps to discover what the elderly person is thinking and feeling and it promotes conversation among generations. Next it allows players to complete a personal life-story book.
Expected results and impact
In the first months an amount of 35 involved persons will be interviewed. In the pilot phase about 70 elderly people with dementia will be included, as well as 85 caregivers. This participative approach makes MI-Tale known among a big amount of potential users, both elderly persons and organisations working with them. Expected main impact of, first, the project and, later on, the product is improvement of communication (in terms of clarity, fun and variety) among dementia patients and their beloved ones. Working closely together with care organisations, bringing the product to the field will be done organically.
Partners
Partners involved in the MI-Tale project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Foundation for the Elderly (NFE) | End User | The Netherlands | www.ouderenfonds.nl |
| LIFEtool gemeinnützige GmbH (LFTL) | End User | Austria | www.lifetool.at |
| Eerste Verdieping Internet Communities (EVIC) | SME | The Netherlands | www.eersteverdieping.nl |
| ENPP-Böhm Institut (ENPP) | SME | Austria | www.enpp-austria.com |
| Consultancy Zorg Giersbergen (CZG) | SME | The Netherlands | www.zorggiersbergen.nl |
| MK Prosopsis Ltd (MKP) | SME | Cyprus | www.mkprosopsis.com |
- Project name: MI-Tale – A personalised psychobiographic game to access and preserve memories of people with dementia.
- Website: www.mi-tale.eu
- Coordinator: National Foundation for the Elderly (the Netherlands)
- Duration: 24 months
- Starting date: 01.05.2017
- Total budget: €1,001,627.00
- Public contribution: €713,109
Objectives
MEMENTO provides a solution to help people with dementia to life with a decline of memory – short term memory as well as long term memory. MEMENTO provides a tool to create own set of memories in everyday life. It’s your own picture, voice and video diary.
MEMENTO addresses people with early and middle level of dementia such as those subjects with an MMSE score ranging from 24 and 28. The MEMENTO solution comprises of three different devices: 1)The all-day device to record voice notes, video clips and snapshots and which can give small information, a digital blackboard and a smart pen and paper pocket book.
Expected results and impact
The MEMENTO solution comprises of three different devices such as the all-day device, the digital blackboard and the smart pen. The all-day device helps people with dementia to record voice notes, video clips and snapshots and give small information about places and people or notes which have been stored by themselves. The digital blackboard provides different features such as sharing memories, write daily reminders in the form of digital post-it and an interactive digital calendar supporting the daily task organisation and the health related reminders (e.g. drug intake). Finally, a smart pen to note down notes to notebooks while motivating the users to draw and make sketches and to explain things which have an engaging and motivating influence on people with dementia.
Partners
Partners involved in the MEMENTO project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virtualware 2007 S.A: | SME | Spain | www.virtualwaregroup.com |
| AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH | R&D | Austria | www.ait.ac.at |
| BKM Design Studio | SME | Austria | www. tbkm.net |
| Medical University of Vienna | R&D | Austria | www.meduniwien.ac.at |
| Wetouch | SME | Austria | www. wetouch.at |
| Integris | SME | Italy | www.integris.it |
| Università di Perugia | End User | Italy | www.unipg.it |
| Bidaideak - Sociedad Vasca de Minusválidos | End User | Spain | www.bidaideak.org |
| Citard Services Ltd | SME | Cyprus | www.citard-serv.com |
- Project name : MEMENTO – A persuasive system supporting Memory and Moments of people with Early and Middle stage of dementia
- Website: http://www.memento-project.eu
- Coordinator : Virtualware 2007 S.A.
- Duration : 24 months
- Starting date : 01.05.2017
- Total budget : 2 104 752 €
- Public contribution : 1 273 767 €
Objectives
MedGUIDE is a European innovation project that provides an innovative approach to support seniors with dementia with their medication adherence through smart pill boxes and social networking. The project aims to help elders with mild cognitive impairments living at home by:
- Providing insight in the actual needs of elders with dementia (based on input from the patient, the network of informal caregivers, and contextual data from IoT devices);
- Provide insight in actual medication use, side effects and adherence;
- Provide support for improving the care and medication adherence through direct reminders and personalised road maps leveraging the network of informal caregivers.
Expected results and impact
The MedGUIDE product brings together all actors in the chain of health and pharmaceutical care interested in improving the care and well-being of people with dementia through better medication management. Considering that over 60% of people with dementia in Europe have trouble with over- and under treatment of dementia related medications, the target market of MedGUIDE is significant. The MedGUIDE business model targets professional care providers (e.g. pharmacy networks), who can use MedGUIDE to improve medication management and thereby better support their elderly patients. Furthermore, the consortium aims to also directly target health insurers, since the high-level efficiency gains can only be incentivised on a meta-level.
Partners
Partners involved in the MedGUIDE project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| ConnectedCare Services BV | SME | The Netherlands | www.connectedcare.nl |
| KARDE AS | End User / SME | Norway | www.karde.no |
| Vigisense SA | SME | Switzerland | www.vigisense.com |
| Hogeschool Utrecht | R&D | The Netherlands | www.hu.nl |
| Dutch Institute for Rational Use of Medicine | End User | The Netherlands | www.medicijngebruik.nl |
| Technical University of Cluj-Napoca | R&D | Romania | www.utcluj.ro |
| Materia Group – AgeCare | End User / SME | Cyprus | www.materia.com.cy |
- Project name: MedGUIDE
- Website: www.aal-medguide.eu
- Coordinator: Connectedcare Services b.v.
- Duration: 30 months
- Starting date: 01.02.2017
- Total budget: € 2.039.024
- Public contribution: € 1.289.710
Objectives
Due to ageing of the populations, increasing number of elderly people experience progressive cognitive decline and suffer from dementia including Alzheimer’s disease. Symptoms affecting people with dementia create an enormous challenge to healthcare and social support systems, as well as individual caregivers. Needs of people with cognitive decline depend on the stage of disease and may vary from occasional support to close supervision. However, cognitive decline is often under-diagnosed and needs of support remain unrecognised causing failure in providing safe environment for dementia sufferers.
The IONIS project addresses the needs of people with dementia and is motivated by the successful work and excellent final evaluation of the AAL NITICS (Networked InfrasTructure for Innovative home Care Solutions – Call). IONIS intends to exploit NITICS innovation and extend the platform with new technologies and services for both indoor and outdoor support in order provide a wide range of dementia specific solutions through continuous support to people with dementia when they are at home or outside.
Expected results and impact
The expected results of the project may be viewed in three dimensions:
- Individual : Supporting older people with cognitive decline and their caregivers with ICT solutions will augment their safety and lower risk of harmful events, as well as facilitate their active participation in life.
- Links between science and business: Cooperation of partners with different backgrounds (technical sciences, medicine, social sciences) in the project will contribute to the development of best possible solutions ready to be placed on the market.
- Society level: Creating dementia-friendly communities and changing attitudes towards people with dementia.
Partners
Partners involved in the IONIS project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| ECLEXYS Sagl | SME | Switzerland | www.eclexys.com |
| Centrul IT pentru Stiinta si Tehnologie | End User / SME | Romania | www.citst.ro |
| University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest | R&D | Romania | www.upb.ro |
| IZRIIS Institute for research, intergenerational relations, gerontology and ICT | End User | Slovenia | www.izriis.si |
| Alzheimer Slovenia - Spominčica | End User | Slovenia | www.spomincica.si |
| Warsaw University of Technology | R&D | Poland | www.pw.edu.pl |
| Department of Geriatrics Warsaw | End User | Poland | www.wum.edu.pl |
| Bay Zoltán Nonprofit Ltd. for Applied Research | R&D | Hungary | www.bayzoltan.hu |
| Őszi Napsugár Otthon | End User | Hungary | www.oszinapsugar.hu |
| Softic Ltd. | SME | Hungary | www.softic.hu |
- Project name : Indoor and outdoor NITICSplus solution for dementia challenges
- Website: http://ionis.eclexys.com
- Coordinator : ECLEXYS Sagl
- Duration : 30 months
- Starting date : 01.10.2017
- Total budget : 2,309,150.00 €
- Public contribution : 1,594,468.00 €
Objectives
Get Ready For Activity – persuasive ambiences is the modular application of ambient lighting, sound and scents research to create room ambiences for supporting people with dementia (PwD) and their caregivers in their daily activities and structure and positively influence erratic behaviour (depression and agitation) of PwD. The project aims to develop, implement and validate as well as get ready for the market an intelligent, modular, persuasive ambient system to prepare PwD for new or changing activities during the day and thereby assist the care recipients as well as the caregivers.
Expected results and impact
Market ready modules (light, sound and scent) for creating automated room ambiences are planned to be ready two years from the end of the research project. The business plan involves a contractor for each country who helps integrating the solution in care facilities and home settings and an affordable licence system for needed software. GREAT will support PwD to live at their own homes for a longer period of their disease. The system helps with agitation or apathy in the patients and thereby ease the burden of caregivers at home and in facilities and allows for individual configuration at reduced costs.
Partners
Partners involved in the GREAT project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Applied Sciences Vorarlberg GmbH | R&D | Austria | www.fhv.at |
| Bartenbach GmbH | SME | Austria | www.bartenbach.com |
| Intefox GmbH | SME | Austria | |
| Tirol Kliniken GmbH - Hall | End User | Austria | www.tirol-kliniken.at |
| University of Applied Sciences St. Gallen | R&D | Switzerland | www.fhsg.ch |
| CURAVIVA Schweiz | End User | Switzerland | www.curaviva.ch |
| EMT - energy management team AG | SME | Switzerland | www.emt.ch |
| apollis - Institute of Social Research and Opinion Polling | SME | Italy | www.apollis.it |
- Project name: Get Ready For Activity – Ambient Day Scheduling with Dementia
- Website: http://great.labs.fhv.at/
- Coordinator: Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences, Austria
- Duration: 36 months
- Starting date: 01.02.2017
- Total budget: 3 mi €
- Public contribution: 1,66 mi €