SENSE-GARDEN
The progressive impact of dementia on memory, communication, behaviour, orientation, and mood can have serious implications for an individual’s wellbeing. Whilst there is currently no cure for ...
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There are 47 million people living with dementia worldwide and expected to increase to 131 million by 2050. A person with dementia experiences loss of function, especially memory, eventually affecting verbal communication and ultimately creating disconnection from the close ones such as family and friends. The SENSE-GARDEN project will create rooms that automatically adapt to the memories and lives of their visitors with dementia. The aim is to evoke and awaken emotions by providing stimuli to the different senses, such as sight, touch, hearing, and smell, leading to a re-connection with the reality around.
Expected Results and Impact
The main question to be answered in SENSE-GARDEN is: can we use a technological adaptive space, stimulating senses with music, images, smells, to be used as a therapy offered to older adults living with dementia to reduce the progression of the disease? The project will use these immersive spaces, simulating images of mountains, music of singing birds, and forest aromas. We expect to be able to access lost areas of the memory in persons with dementia and to help them re-connecting to reality. SENSE-GARDENS in four countries will be totally operating at project end to attract European marketing interest.
Partners
Partners involved in the SENSE-GARDEN project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| University Hospital of North Norway | R&D | Norway | www.ehealthresearch.no |
| Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy from Bucharest | End User | Romania | www.umfcd.ro |
| Odda Municipality | End User | Norway | www.odda.kommune.no |
| Sta. Casa da Misericordia | End User | Portugal | www.scml.pt |
| Compexin S.A. | SME | Romania | www.compexin.ro |
| Vulpia Vlaanderen VZW | End User | Belgium | www.vulpia.be |
| e-Point | SME | Belgium | www.e-point-the-electronic-point-of-care.com |
| Norwegian University of Science and Technology | R&D | Norway | www.ntnu.no |
- Project name: Virtual and memory adaptable spaces creating stimuli for the senses in ageing people with dementia
- Website: sense-garden.eu
- Coordinator: University Hospital of North Norway
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.06.2017
- Total budget: € 2,1 mi
- Public contribution: € 1.3 mi
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 €
Objectives
Follow.Me aims to satisfy people’s desire of monitoring the position of elderly people with different forms of dementia and Alzheimer, in order to prevent danger situations. Caregivers and family members will be able to track their patients and loved ones using geofencing technologies in order to know when they leave or enter a given area, the speed they are travelling, send them notifications that will appear on the watch and even call them. They will be able to create safe areas, unsafe areas and alarms when the Follow.Me device leaves a given location or when it arrives at a given place.
Expected results and impact
The outcomes of Follow.me will be an integrated solution consisting of: an application developed for smartwatches available on the market (iOS and Android) for the localisation of the elderly and people with mental disorders in an outdoor and indoor; an indoor location system based on an innovative use of Wi-Fi technology/BLE for an easy localisation of the patient; cloud-based services, available for families and medical workers, that can generate a wide range of alarms and to ensure a rapid and timely communication with the patient through the use of PCs or Smartphones.
Partners
Partners involved in the Follow.Me project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per l’Informatica | R&D | Italy | www.consorzio-cini.it |
| University and Emergency Hospital of Bucharest | End User | Romania | www.suub.ro |
| SIVECO | Large Industry | Romania | www.siveco.ro |
| Austrian Institute of Technology | R&D | Austria | www.ait.ac.at |
| MobiMesh | SME | Italy | www.mobimesh.eu |
| Epsilon | SME | Italy | www.epsilonline.com |
| SYNYO GmbH | SME | Austria | www.synyo.com |
| LiCalab vzw | End User | Belgium | www.licalab.be |
| Wit-Gele Kruis Limburg vzw | End User | Belgium | www.witgelekruis.be |
- Project name: Follow.Me
- Website: http://followmeproject.eu/overview.html
- Coordinator: Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per l’Informatica (CINI)
- Duration: 24 months
- Starting date: 01.06.2016
- Total budget: 2,2 mi €
- Public contribution: 1,1 mi €
EnterTrain
Within the AAL-JP project EnterTrain, an exercise gaming platform will be developed and evaluated in cooperation with end-user, combining three core aspects of AAL: technology, end-user and ...
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The objective of EnterTrain is given by its name: enhancing the health and quality of life of independently living older adults by motivating them for physical Training in an Entertaining way. To enhance physical activity of older adults, exergames can be used – these are computer games which are played via body movement and thus have the inherent effect of unobtrusive physical exercise. However, there are known barriers to be overcome. Hence, what is needed is an innovation: a platform that automatically and continuously adapts to the user’s preferences, skills and mobility.
Expected results and impact
The objective of EnterTrain is to enhance the health and quality of life of older adults by motivating them for physical training, since regular physical activity has positive effects towards the own independence in life. However, many older adults are not able or find no pleasure in doing physical activities. Hence, EnterTrain is highly personalised, motivates and considers the health of the user: for the younger and/or physically fitter, playing on EnterTrain serves as preventive measure against loss of physical resources in older age, whereas it helps to maintain existing resources or even build up physical fitness in older age.
Partners
Partners involved in the EnterTrain project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| CogVis Software und Consulting GmbH | SME | Austria | www.cogvis.at |
| Vienna University of Technology, Inst. for Computer Aided Automation 183 | R&D | Austria | www.caa.tuwien.ac.at |
| University of Vienna, Department of Sociology | R&D | Austria | www.soz.univie.ac.at |
| Samariterbund Wien | End User | Austria | www.samariterbund.net |
| SilverFit BV | SME | The Netherlands | www.silverfit.com |
| Geriatrische Klinik St. Gallen | R&D | Switzerland | www.gesundheitundalter.ch |
| BluePoint | SME | Romania | www.bluepoint-it.ro |
| National Foundation for the Elderly | End User | The Netherlands | www.ouderenfonds.nl |
- Project name: Entertainment by Training on a Personalized Exergame Platform
- Website: www.entertrain-project.eu
- Coordinator: CogVis Software und Consulting GmbH
- Duration: 36 months
- Starting date: 01.04.2016
- Total budget: 3.1 M€
- Public contribution: 2 M€
TV-AssistDem
Patient-support tool TV-ASSISTDEM will help patients with dementia to keep control over their lives, increasing patients’ independence. The improved communication between patients and their (formal ...
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Objectives
As Europe’s population is ageing, long-term care for elderly citizens will become an increasing cost for society. To manage this transition healthcare policy in the EU and individual Member States are heavily focused on extending the independent life of the elderly, with the dual aim of increasing their quality of life and reducing the costs of care. Dementia affects more than 6% of people aged 60+ and has a devastating effect on their independence – to date, there is no proven intervention to help dementia patients live a fulfilling life for longer. In this project, we will build on an innovative patient support tool to provide healthcare over a distance specifically targeted to patients with mild dementia that enables the interaction of voice, video, and health-related data using ordinary telephone lines connected to the internet.
Expected Results and Impact
The main indicators of impact will be the improvement in health-related quality of life and cognitive decline. These may result in financial savings for the healthcare system in each country, an estimated saving cost per patient/year for healthcare providers of 1800 euros.
This ICT solution can be used in almost every household in Europe, around the second half of 2020. Any older person living independently can be used by, helping to develop the concept of Ambient Assisted Living on an affordable and cost-effective way. We offer total control of the Support Platform to the healthcare providers, versus proprietary connected TV solutions.
Partners
Partners involved in the TV AssisteDem project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| IBIMA Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Málaga | End User | Spain | www.ibima.eu |
| MEDEA | SME | Italy | www.medeaproject.eu |
| Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche- Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione | R&D | Italy | www.istc.cnr.it |
| Institut multidisciplinaire de science de données | SME | Switzerland | www.imsd.ch |
| SC INGRIJIRI LA DOMICILIU srl | R&D | Romania | www.ingrijireacasa.ro |
| Smart Health TV Solution | SME | Spain | www.shtvsolution.com |
| Asociación de familiares de personas con Alzheimer y otras demencias de Málaga | End User | Spain | www.alzheimermalaga.org |
- Project name: TV-based ASSistive Integrated Service to SupporT European adults living with Dementia
- Website: http://www.tvassistdem-aal.eu/
- Coordinator: IBIMA, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Málaga
- Duration: 36 months
- Starting Date: 01.02.2017
- Total budget: € 1.115.246
- Public contribution: € 607.079
Objectives
The fundamental objective of EDLAH2 is to research and observe/prove, if the gamification methodology used within sectors like the health and fitness sector, which is primarily aimed at athletic and physical capable people; could be successful in motivating older people to maintain good physical, mental and emotional practices, to improve or maintain their quality of life. This builds on and will add to, the product (MiCare), developed by KG&S in the UK and the research carried out, as a result of the EDLAH project.
Expected results and impact
EDLAH2 data will indicate gamification techniques, which can be utilised to motivate older people to maintain activities, that improve/maintain a healthy life. This in the areas of mental health (stimulation), physical health (monitoring, encouraging activity) and social life (communication, skills usage). This will result in the publication of 2/3 research papers. The developed apps and gamification engine utilised by the SMEs to add to their product lines, in both conventional web gaming (EVDS) and for KG&S within their product MiCare. It is hoped that for both this would take place within 18 months of the project completion.
Partners
Partners involved in the EDLAH 2 project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Karis Group Limited (KG&S) | SME | United Kingdom | www.karisgroup.com |
| EverdreamSoft | SME | Switzerland | www.everdreamsoft.com |
| Terzstiftung | End User | Switzerland | www.terzstiftung.ch |
| Université de Genève | R&D | Switzerland | www.tam.unige.ch |
| Université du Luxembourg | R&D | Luxembourg | wwwen.uni.lu |
- Project name: Enhanced Daily Living And Health 2
- Website: www.edlah2.eu
- Coordinator: Mike O’Connor
- Duration: 30 months
- Starting date: 01.06.2016
- Total budget: €2,925,451
- Public contribution: €1,727,394
Objectives
DayGuide introduces a novel ICT-based system, supporting older adults suffering from mild cognitive impairment and early dementia in their daily life and their families. The system also supports persons living alone with no care person available on a regular basis. Persons with cognitive impairment experience various domestic challenges, depriving them from the pursuit of an independent, self-organised life at home. DayGuide responds directly to these challenges through technology allowing people to live as independent as possible for as long as possible. Informal caregivers benefit through improved information and exchange in a networked environment.
Expected results and impact
DayGuide will improve the Quality of Life for end-users. The main results will be: 1) Structuring daily activities for the elderly in early phases of MCI or dementia and providing significant improvement as it is oriented towards the specific needs of the person (user-centred design). 2) This also affects the quality of life of the carer. Preventing burden and stress in the support provider significantly reduces the need for pharmacological treatment of this group and prevents secondary diseases. 3) National policies aim for the elderly to live as long as possible in their own environment. The problems and the solution that DayGuide provides apply in the same way throughout Europe.
DayGuide
Partners involved in the DayGuide project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH | R&D | Austria | www.ait.ac.at |
| Cubigo International NV | SME | Belgium | www.cubigo.com |
| CREAGY AG | SME | Switzerland | www.creagy.ch |
| Movisie | R&D | The Netherlands | www.movisie.nl |
| terzStiftung | End User | Switzerland | www.terzstiftung.ch |
| De Wever | End User | The Netherlands | www.dewever.nl |
| MAS Alzheimerhilfe | End User | Austria | www.alzheimer-hilfe.at |
| Kadex BV | SME | The Netherlands | www.kadex-domotica.com |
| Kepler University Clinic GmbH | R&D | Autria | www.kepleruniklinikum.at |
- Project name: DayGuide
- Website: www.dayguide.eu
- Facebook: www.facebook.com/dayguide.dementia
- Twitter: @DayGuide
- Coordinator: Dr. Heinrich Garn
- Duration: 36 months
- Starting date: 01.04.2016
- Total budget: 2,2 mi €
- Public contribution: 1,3 mi €
CordonGris
Three core components will be developed: an integration service with open and extensible APIs that allow integrating the system with third party devices, systems and infrastructures; user interfaces ...
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The number of malnourished seniors reaching emergency rooms is alarming. Socio-economic status, culture or personal preferences are some of the key elements to deliver food recommendations that are healthy and accepted. CordonGris will gather and manage data that are relevant for this purpose (e.g. activity monitoring, country-specific food composition tables, retailers’ information), make sense of these data and generate recommendations that balance healthy eating, physical activity and a budget constraint. CordonGris is providing the conditions for ‘flat-rate food’ to become a reality for seniors.
Expected results and impact
- Identification of main rules and development of algorithms to support a recommendation engine that fosters healthy eating on a budget.
- Integration with retailers and design of the service(s) in the three participating countries.
- Inclusively designed user interfaces.
- Reaching the market 2 years after project end.
Partners
Partners involved in the CordonGris project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fraunhofer Portugal AICOS | R&D | Portugal | www.fraunhofer.pt |
| Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa | End User | Portugal | www.scml.pt |
| SONAE - Modelo Continente Hipermercados, S.A. | Large Industry | Portugal | www.sonae.pt |
| Red Ninja Studios | SME | United Kingdom | www.redninja.co.uk |
| Can Cook | SME | United Kingdom | www.cancook.co.uk |
| UnieKBO | End User | The Netherlands | www.uniekbo.nl |
- Project name: CordonGris: Making sense of data to promote effortless healthy eating habits and autonomy for older adults
- Website: www.cordongris.eu
- Coordinator: Fraunhofer Portugal AICOS
- Duration: 24 months
- Starting date: 01.05.2016
- Total budget: 1,8 mi €
- Public contribution: 1,3 mi €
Free Walker
Elopement and becoming lost are serious and costly public safety problems that will even worsen in the future as the incidence of dementia increases unless the public is better educated about ...
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FreeWalker will integrate several proven components of AAL assistive devices and technologies, for a flexible and versatile solution for guiding and monitoring elderly or impaired persons in the outdoor environment and supporting caregivers by providing emergency information to recover disoriented persons safely. The primary target groups in FreeWalker are persons with cognitive impairments living at home or in an intramural care organisation, and their (in)formal carers. We aim to promote person with frailty to stay active and physically healthy by reducing the fear of going out.
Expected Results and Impacts
A trial with over 150 people in the Netherlands, Austria and Switzerland will lead to a solution that reduces the stress for caregivers and enables elderly people to stay longer active. FreeWalker will also try to integrate a fall detection solution, so that the people can be found as soon as possible and thereby reduce the consequent health problems.During the project FreeWalker will already reach the market and must at the end of the project be a well-known solution in the partner countries, marketed by Ivengi.com and CareCenter Software GmbH.
Partners
Partners involved in the Free Walker project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Austrian Institute of Technology | R&D | Austria | www.ait.ac.at |
| Vilans | R&D | The Netherlands | vilans.nl |
| CareCenter Software Ges.m.b.H. | SME | Austria | http://www.carecenter.at/ |
| MAS Alzheimerhilfe | End User | Austria | http://www.alzheimer-hilfe.at/ |
| Kepler University Hospital GmbH | R&D | Austria | https://www.kepleruniklinikum.at/ |
| Creagy AG | SME | Switzerland | https://creagy.ch/wp2/ |
| terzStiftung | End User | Switzerland | http://www.terzstiftung.ch/ |
| Ivengi.com | SME | The Netherlands | https://www.ivengi.com/ivengi/wie-zijn-we |
| TanteLouise | End User | The Netherlands | http://www.tantelouise.nl/ |
- Project name: Free Walking Elderly
- Website: www.freewalker.eu, www.freewalker-aal.eu
- Coordinator: AIT – Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.04.2018
- Total budget: € 2,69 mil
- Public contribution: €1,74 mil
Brain@Home
Technological breakthrough developments: a platform which will be developed as the central experience centre and data collection hub in the Brain@Home project. Monitoring and improving/maintaining ...
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- Develop a platform through which older persons can accede to a motivating, challenging and playful environment to engage in brain training and physical activity within the safety of their own home,
- Build a hardware system using consumer-level portable devices for brain training
- Construct a gaming platform for social-powered brain training. Games and activities are stored in cloud repositories. A user’s score in a game can be compared to the scores of other users using the system with the same type of exercise
- A virtual community for older persons and caregivers, families, friends to share and disseminate knowledge and curiosities about interesting visits and travels
- A system to store results and give access (web, mobile, etc) to this data and trends to users, caregivers and possibly to GP/family physicians.
- To examine improvement in different domains such as well being, quality of life, and cognitive status following the training program
Expected results and impact
IT System: design definition according to the users’ needs and in time according to the project calendar.
Applications: definition of functionalities, development and test according to the defined project plan.
The scientific approach and the study design reflect the purpose of the research, and are in line with the major scientific findings in the field, going beyond the state of the art.
Involvement of the end-users in each developmental phase, to ensure system acceptance, usability and exploitability.
Business and cooperation agreements with at least 2 types of entities, if possible embracing at least 5 EU countries as well as efficient dissemination to stakeholders.
Proper approach to the market and end-user needs
Partners
Partners involved in the Brain@Home project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| SIVECO Romania | Large Industry | Romania | www.siveco.ro |
| Casa di Cura Privata del Policlinico | Large Industry | Italy | www.ccppdezza.it |
| MediaHospital srl | SME | Italy | www.mediahospital.com |
| Pannon Business Network Association | End User | Hungary | www.pbn.hu |
| Karma Interactive | SME | Hungary | www.karma-interactive.hu |
| University of Bucharest | R&D | Romania | www.unibuc.ro |
- Project name: Moving and enhancing brain training for an active life
- Website: http://www.brainathome-aal.com/index.php/en/
- Coordinator: SIVECO Romania
- Duration: 30 months
- Starting date: 02.06.2016
- Total budget: 1,379,515.00 €
- Public contribution: 849,184.00 €