Care about Care (C^C)
C^C builds on existing software solutions for professional home care and combines two newly developed integrated ICT-enhanced services with established and new organizational processes: (i) The ‘C^C ...
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‘Care about Care’ (C^C) aims to support the ecosystem of professional home care (care workers, care recipients, family and non-kin carers, home care organizations, software providers) by providing new ICT-enhanced ways of collaboration, assistance and information exchange. By developing and combining ICT-based solutions C^C intends to: (i) initiate new ways of collaboration, workflows and (remote) support to make care work more attractive, (ii) provide tools for sharing information between members of the care network and (iii) promote knowledge transfer between them.
Expected results and impact
C^C aims to empower the independence of care service users by improving self-management. Moreover, C^C intends to contribute to effective and efficient workflows. C^C end-user organizations will also be enabled to establish a one-stop-shop for distributing services and technologies in addition to care. With respect to service models C^C aims to design, implement, test and evaluate a new care service model focusing on establishing new workflows, providing new job opportunities, scaling-up expert knowledge and reducing travel times.
Partners
Partners involved in the project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Applied Sciences Wiener Neustadt | R&D | Austria | www.fhwn.ac.at/ |
| ilogs mobile software GmbH | SME | Austria | www.ilogs.care/ |
| Eichenberger- Szenografie | SME | Switzerland | www.szenografie.com/ |
| Vienna University of Economics and Business | R&D | Austria | www.wu.ac.at/en/altersoekonomie |
| Hilfswerk Niederösterreich | Large enterprise/enduser | Austria | www.hilfswerk.at/niederoesterreich/ |
| Senior Living Group | Large enterprise/end user | Belgium | www.srliving.be/ |
| Stëftung Hëllef Doheem | End-user | Luxembourg | www.shd.lu/ |
| Distrac Group | Large enterprise | Belgium | www.distrac.com/ |
- Project name: Digital Support for Empowering Care Networks (Care about Care – C^C)
- Website: www.careaboutcare.eu
- Coordinator: University of Applied Sciences Wiener Neustadt
- Duration: 30 Months
- Starting Date: 01/06/2021
- Total budget: 2.076.820 €
- Public contribution: 1.311.672 €
Objectives
FaceRehab will develop a solution for supporting facial rehabilitation exercises at home using technology as a mean to improve digital transformation of the health and care for people affected with Facial Paralysis. It will contribute to integrate actions of formal and informal carers using a common ICT-based solution by extending rehabilitation programs performed in hospital or clinical environments to the community setting. In particular, FaceRehab will address the need for technological solutions that monitor the realization of facial paralysis rehabilitation exercises at home. A need felt by patients, physical therapists, occupational therapists and speech therapists while undergoing a rehabilitation program.
Expected results and impact
FaceRehab expects to improve the quality of life (QoL) for primary end-users. The most important contribution to the QoL provided by FaceRehab solution is that it is addressing an often disregarded but prevalent problem of facial nerve paralysis. This consequence can be caused by an acute event like stroke, but it can also appear without an apparent cause. It has devastating consequences on self-esteem and causes self-isolation, physical issues (deglutition, corneal protection, dampening of noise) and mental disorders. The paralysis results in facial asymmetry that alters identity, ability to communicate, and effective expression of emotion. FaceRehab aims to develop a solution that can support better and quicker rehabilitation through exercises and bio-feedback at home, which will have a great impact on peoples’ lives.
Partners
Partners involved in the project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Instituto Pedro Nunes | R&D | Portugal | www.ipn.pt |
| Centro de Medicina Fisica e Reabilitação - Fisioermesinde | SME | Portugal | |
| ThinkDigital | SME | Portugal | |
| Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu | End User | Spain | |
| Rehazenter | End User | Luxembourg |
- Project name: Facial paralysis Rehabilitation at home (FaceRehab)
- Website: http: //facerehab.las.ipn.pt
- Coordinator: Instituto Pedro Nunes – IPN
- Duration: 24 months
- Starting Date: 01/05/2021
- Total budget: 821 812, 5€
- Public contribution: 681 906,25 €
SI-FOOtWORK
The SI-FOOtWORK system will allow for the workers to focus on avoiding or reducing back pain. The uniqueness of the SI-FOOtWORK project lies in the combination of pressure monitoring in insoles, ...
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The aim of the project is to develop a personalized Smart Insole system FOr Older WORkers to reduce bacK pain (SI-FOOtWORK). The SI-FOOtWORK system will consist of an insole that, equipped with pressure sensors, can measure lifting workloads of older workers. By integrating state-of-the art low power technology the insole can wirelessly and ubiquitously communicate with an adaptable Artificial Intelligence (AI) lifting engine, that can evaluate lifting amounts and correctness. These immediate notifications will empower the user to avoid and stop problematic lifting situations, thus reducing the risk of developing back pains due to overexertion.
Expected results and outcome
SI-FOOtWORK will improve the quality of life for older persons by enabling them to retain their job function by correcting risk behaviours leading to back-pain, reducing sick days and optimising their general well-being. SI-FOOtWORK will develop and validate a robust, easy-to-use and cost-effective solution targeted older workers assisting them to prevent, mitigate and correct risk behaviours when lifting – leading to keeping workers active and healthy for longer time, thus contributing to the sustainability of social security and healthcare systems. A successful market introduction and exploitation of the SI-FOOtWORK technology will have strong impacts on growth of the European active and assisted living sector, employment and industrial competitiveness, specifically on the consortium SMEs.
Partners
Partners involved in the project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Technical University of Denmark | R&D | Denmark | www.dtu.dk |
| Norwegian University of Science and Technology | R&D | Norway | www.ntnu.no |
| Canary Technology Innovations SRL | SME | Romania | www.canarytech.ro |
| Hoka Tæpper og Gulve | End Users | Denmark | www.hokagulve.dk |
| Ana Aslan International Foundation | End Users | Romania | www.anaaslanacademy.ro |
- Project name: Smart Insole system FOr Older WORkers to reduce bacK pain (SI-FOOtWORK)
- Coordinator: Technical University of Denmark
- Duration: 9 months
- Starting Date: 01.03.2021.
- Total budget: € 258,207
- Public contribution:
Objective of the project
The Sense Garden Home project is a follow up of the previous SENSE-GARDEN project (AAL/Call2016/054-b/2017, implementation period June 2017 – November 2020) which was funded by AAL Programme , co-funded by the European Commission and National Funding Authorities of Norway, Belgium, Romania, and Portugal. Creating a Sense Garden experience with minimal resources in the comfort of the Person with dementia’s own cosy and safe environment, their home.
Expected Results and Impact
The main question answered in the previous SENSE-GARDEN was that we can use 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 used these immersive spaces, simulating images of mountains, music of singing birds, and forest aromas.
SENSE-GARDEN Home will be the commercialization track of these immersive experiences in the comfort of their own home and enjoying past long time memories with friends and family. Three countries are involved to attract European market interest.
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| e-Point | SME | Belgium | www.e-point-the-electronic-point-of-care.com |
| Canarytech | SME | Romania | www.canarytech.ro |
| Integro Sint Jan Berchmans Campus | End User | Belgium | www.integrozorg.eu |
| Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy from Bucharest | End User | Romania | www.umfcd.ro |
| Norwegian University of Science and Technology | R&D | Norway | www.ntnu.no |
- Project name: SENSE GARDEN HOME (SGH)
- Coordinator: ePoint bv
- Duration: 9 months
- Starting Date:
- Total budget: € 350.000
- Public contribution: €
Contact:
Ronny Broekx
E: Ronny.Broekx@epoint.be
T:+32495104408
Objectives
The project will produce prototypes of a simple, wearable device, ALTO, that improves the wellbeing – both mental and physical – for users in the +65-year age segment. Restlessness, difficulties to sleep and a lack of energy are all prevalent feelings in the ageing population. The developed solution builds on proven, carefully researched benefits of the combination of light and aroma stimulation to increase the quality of life amongst its users and to positively influence relevant biomarkers. The objective of the project is to validate the interest for the concept/device in different markets and sales channels.
Expected results and impact
The expected project result is a validated concept with a tested prototype, and with the potential to be industrialised, approved for sales in Europe and commercialised. The solution can potentially add value to for a multitude of end-users and for different use cases related to the wellbeing of the +65 years old. It is estimated that the product can be introduced in the first market within 6 months of the completion of the project, and ultimately be easily available (OTC) in developed markets globally and by that define a new niche category within the self-care market: “personal space air/light enhancement”.
Partners
Partners involved in the project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heveas | SME | Denmark | www.heveas.com |
| Achilles | SME | Belgium | www.achilles.be |
| Fundesalud | End Users | Spain | www.fundesalud.es |
| National Cheng Kung University | R&D | Taiwan | www.ncku.edu.tw |
- Project name: Aroma Light Therapy Organiser (ALTO)
- Coordinator: Heveas ApS
- Duration: 9 months
- Starting Date: 03/2021
- Total budget: € 282,305
- Public contribution: € 202,305
Contact
Søren Jensen
E: ssj@heveas.com
T:+45 3699 1364
Objectives:
The purpose of the 4ME project is to initiate activities for Pan-European market deployment of the 4Mvideo E-sport cycling platform for seniors – a reminiscence and video based motivational system for exercising at home. The scope is three-fold: 1) provide scientific validation of the positive effect of using the 4Mvideo system at home; 2) acquire end user insights and establish business models and eco-systems for deployment in selected European countries and 3) build communities and engage in co-creation processes preparing for version 2.0 development of the system and Pan-European business model.
Expected Results and Impact:
The 4Mvideo platform contributes to the socio-economic challenge and as such has an important economic impact. The product strengthens the users physical condition and ties to their social network (personal bicycle videos being made by / with family and others as well as the social element of the solution, enabling remote training with others). Thus, the need for home care services are expected to be reduced or postponed. At the end of the project 4Mvideo will be commercially available in Spain, Norway and Denmark; 3 hospitals, 50+ end users and families will have tested the solution and provided input to version 2.0.
Project partners
Partners involved in the project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4Mvideo | SME | Denmark | www.4mvideo.com |
| Sens Innovation | R&D | Denmark | www.sens.dk |
| University Hospital of Copenhagen | End Users | Denmark | www.regionsjaelland.dk/sundhed |
| Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | End Users | Spain | https://inc.uab.cat |
| University Hospital Sagrat Cor | End Users | Spain | www.hospitalarias.es |
| Stavanger University Hospital | End Users | Norway | www.helse-stavanger.no/en |
- Project name: 4Mvideo E-sport cycling at home for rehabilitation and daily exercise (4ME)
- Coordinator: 4mvideo
- Website: https://4mvideo.dk/
- Duration: 9 months
- Starting Date:
- Total budget: € 380,000
- Public contribution:
mHealthINX
mHealthINX users will be able to measure, assess, and elaborate on the personal stress level in a mobile and unobtrusive way. The system will indicate critical stress levels and suggest personalized ...
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Age-related decline of physical and cognitive abilities produces often stressful situations for older employees. Especially at an older age, occupational stress is a key risk factor for developing mental disorders or cardiovascular diseases. In recent years many Apps have emerged trying to tackle the topic but with the main problem of are lacking clinical evidence. Besides, they miss a holistic approach because they are not co-designed with the target group. In contrast to that, the mHealthINX solution will provide a user-friendly, coherent, and holistic solution for supporting older employees in occupational stress management and mental health provision.
Expected Results and Impact:
The mHealthINX solution will provide a user-friendly, coherent and holistic solution to support older employees in managing their stress level and in promoting their mental health. It will combine advantages of assessment using self-reported and objective bio signal-based measures with advantages of App- and VR-based interventions. The solution will prove its effectiveness in the field. The strong business- and end-user-oriented consortium, having access to various stakeholders, and the low-cost hardware design are promising factors for making the mHealthINX solution very fast attractive to the market.
Partners
Partners involved in the project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH | R&D | Austria | www.ait.ac.at/ |
| Medical University of Vienna | R&D | Austria | www.meduniwien.ac.at |
| mindcoa.ch GmbH | SME | Austria | www.mindcoa.ch/ |
| Creagy AG | SME | Switzerland | www.creagy.ch/ |
| ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences | R&D | Switzerland | www.zhaw.ch |
| tanteLouise | End Users | Netherlands | www.tantelouise.nl/ |
| MedRecord B.V. | SME | Nertherlands | www.medrecord.io/ |
| GameSolutionsLab B.V. | SME | Netherlands | www.gamesolutionslab.com/ |
| terzStiftung | End Users | Switzerland | www.terzstifung.ch |
| Ovos media gmbh | SME | Austria | www.ovos.at |
- Project name: The mental Health eXperience; Indication – iNtervention – eXperience (mHealthINX)
- Website: www.mhealthinx.eu
- Coordinator: AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH
- Duration: 36 months
- Starting date: 03/2020
- Total budget: € 2.900.000
- Public contribution: € 1.800.000
Objectives:
It happens to a lot of older adults: Losing a partner. While most older adults mourn for some time and then continue their lives, another group of older adults cannot process this loss properly and experience prolonged grief. Prolonged grief, on its turn, leads to other health problems, such as loneliness, cardiovascular problems, and depression. The LEAVES project will result in an online service that supports older adults in processing their loss. It will use a combination of online, blended and offline services to help the older adult and to determine the onset of mental problems early on.
Expected Results and Impact:
The impact that the project hopes to achieve on well-being, focuses on, for example, decreasing grief symptoms, and prolonged grief (with a reduction from 25% (average rate) to 17.5%). At the end of the project, we aim to have at least three opportunities for exploitation, whereby a preferred supplier (a large company or organizations focused on psychiatric care) for the service for each country is present in the consortium. It is the goal to have a marketable product ready by the end of the project that will be expanded with personalization features in the years that follow.
Partners
Partners involved in the project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roessingh Research and Development | SME | Netherlands | www.rrd.nl |
| National Foundation for the Elderly | End Users | Netherlands | www.ouderenfonds.nl |
| University of Bern | End Users | Switzerland | www.unibe.ch |
| School of Social Work, University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Olten | University | Switzerland | www.fhnw.ch/ |
| Nothing AG | SME | Switzerland | www.nothing.ch |
| NOVA University of Lisbon | University | Portugal | www.unl.pt |
| Psychiatric Department at the Health Unit of Baixo Alentejo | End Users | Portugal | www.ulsba.min-saude.pt/ |
| Sensing Future Technologies | SME | Portugal | www.sensingfuture.com |
| DELA Natura- en levensverzekeringen N.V. | Large Enterprise | Netherlands | www.dela.nl |
- Project name: optimizing the mentaL health and resiliencE of older Adults that haVe lost thEir spouSe via blended, online therapy (LEAVES)
- Website: https://www.leaves-project.eu/
- Coordinator: Roessingh Research and Development
- Duration: 36 months
- Starting date: 02/2020
- Total budget: € 2.500.000
- Public contribution: € 1.500.000
Objectives:
H2HCare aims to support seniors with heart failure in their transition from acute (hospital) to the community (home) care by providing a robot-based coaching system for helping them to follow the recommended post-discharge treatment plan and lifestyle changes. Using the robot the H2HCare system will provide the following functionalities to end-users: (i) virtual coaching and a direct link with doctors for older adults during their convalescence empowering them to self-manage their recovery at home and avoid hospital readmission; (ii) support for increasing their adherence to post-discharge instructions; (iii) assist health professionals through older adults accurate monitoring and follow-up for preventing re-hospitalization.
Expected Results and Impact:
H2HCare will sustain and improve the quality of life of older adults in different dimensions helping them to better cope with and self-manage transitional care problems in case of heart failure avoiding hospital re-admissions. The expected impact is to reduce with 15% of the re-hospitalization rate of older adults’ patients and transitional care process costs due to improved and timely robot-based follow-up, coaching and intervention. H2HCare will follow a market penetration approach targeting to commercialize a robot with an ecosystem of services for transitional care using a monthly subscription, in 12 months after the project ends.
Partners
Partners involved in the project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Technical University of Cluj-Napoca | R&D | Romania | www.utcluj.ro/en/ |
| Tellu IoT AS | SME | Norway | www.tellucloud.com/ |
| University Hospital of Geneva | End User | Switzerland | www.hug-ge.ch |
| ConnectedCare Services B.V. | SME | Netherlands | www.connectedcare.nl |
| Seniornett | End Users | Norway | www.seniornett.no/ |
| No Isolation | SME | Norway | www.noisolation.com |
- Project name: Social robot-based solution for elders’ Care management and coaching after discharge from Hospital to Home – H2HCare
- Website: https://h2hcare-aal.eu/
- Coordinator: Technical University of Cluj-Napoca
- Duration: 36 months
- Starting date: 04/2020
- Total budget: € 1.600.000
- Public contribution: € 1.000.000
Contact:
Dr. Tudor Cioara
E.: tudor.cioara@cs.utcluj.ro
T.: +40740062380
Objectives:
FORTO aims at developing a user-friendly device and supporting system for self-assessment of muscle fatigability in older persons. Early changes in health are difficult to assess as measurements that currently exist are insufficiently sensitive for changes. FORTO allows to identify small changes in intrinsic reserves. FORTO can be used for a variety of applications like acting as an early warning system for deterioration of the general health status long BEFORE it can be detected by other methods. FORTO can also be applied to monitor and detect delayed recovery in older patients when dismissed from the hospital (e.g. after acute infection or fracture).
Expected Results and Impact:
FORTO consists in a rubber bulb that can be wirelessly connected to a smartphone. The system will allow self-assessment of muscle fatigability by measuring the maximum force elderly people can apply and sustain until their handgrip strength drops to 50% of its maximum. Professional follow up is realized remotely through an app using the smartphone of the elderly person, which at the same time makes the system price effective and very user friendly.
Partners
Partners in the project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vrije Universiteit Brussel | R&D | Belgium | www.fria.research.vub.be |
| Instituto de Telecomunicacoes | R&D | Portugal | www.it.pt/ITSites/Index/1 |
| Radboud University Medical Center | R&D | The Netherlands | www.radboudumc.nl |
| Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel | Large Company | Belgium | www.uzbrussel.be |
| UNIWEB | SME | Belgium | www.uniweb.eu |
| Ziekenhuisgroep Twente | End Users | The Netherlands | www.zgt.nl |
- Project name: Developing a smart self-assessment “Fatigability in Outcomes to monitor Resilience Targets in Older persons” measurement system – FORTO
- Website: www.forto-aal.eu
- Coordinator: Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- Duration: 9 months
- Starting date: 02/2020
- Total budget: € 472.500
- Public contribution: € 299.5700