HAPPY AGEING
HAPPY AGEING system will be composed of three main modules: a lifestyle monitor, able to record main activities taking place in the home and compare them with habits of the monitored subject; a ...
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The Happy Ageing project objectives are:
- to prevent the incidence of chronic conditions and to manage such conditions when present, supporting independent living;
- to develop and integrate a customizable system matching the demand for technology by the elderly with current market supply;
- to directly involve the end-user in the development phase, assessing the user’s expectations and needs, assuring user acceptance of the new system;
- to stimulate business innovation and create market opportunities to distribute and sell HAPPY AGEING devices.
Expected results and impact
There is considerable scope for the development and application of assistive technology to make the homes of older people more able to support care, either self-care or by others. HAPPY AGEING, will stress this issue, trying to reduce the costs for caring with a less use of institute and to strength the position of older persons as active consumers, making their individual demands clearer by a deep analysis of user’s needs.
Partners
Partners involved in the HAPPY AGEING project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI RIPOSO E CURA PER ANZIANI V.E. II (INRCA) | R&D | Italy | www.inrca.it |
| FUNDACIÓ PRIVADA CETEMMSA (CETEMMSA) | R&D | Spain | www.cetemmsa.com |
| SPEED AUTOMAZIONE Srl (SPD) | Large Industry | Italy | www.speedautomazi.it |
| GLOBAL SECURITY INTELLIGENCE LIMITED (GSI) | SME | United Kingdom | globalseci.com |
| AB.ACUS Srl (ABACUS) | SME | Italy | www.ab-acus.com |
| INSTITUTE OF SOCIOLOGY, HUNGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (ISO) | R&D | Hungary | socorg.socio |
| ASSOCIATION OF CATHOLIC ORGANIZATIONS OF SENIOR CITIZENS (UNIEKBO) | End User | Netherlands | www.uniekbo.nl |
- Project name: A Home based APProach to the Years of AGEING
- Website: http://happyageing.info/
- Coordinator: INRCA, Italy
- Duration: 28 Months
- Starting Date: 01.04.2009
- Total budget: € 1.673.779
- Public contribution: € 986.153
Objectives
The project CARE aims to realise an intelligent monitoring and alarming system for independent living of elderly persons. Specifically, this project targets the automated recognition and alarming of critical situations (like fall detection) using a stationary (and non-wearable) technology and real-time processing while preserving the privacy and taking into account system dependability issues, especially ensuring reliability, availability, security, and safety from a holistic point of view. A biologically-inspired dynamic stereo vision sensor from AIT is being integrated into the Everon caring system for seamless analysis and tracking of elderly persons at home. This real-time information is exploited for incident detection (e.g., fall detection, immobilised person), and instantaneous alarming the concerned parties.
Expected results and impact
The system concept mainly targets single individuals living in their own private homes. By targeting elderly persons living in their private homes, the business potential of CARE is huge.
The AAL market is changing and is expected to boom in the next few years as a result of demographic developments and large R&D investment by industries and stakeholders. Safety of elderly at home is a clear European dimension. Actual products on the market mainly consist of wearable systems and intelligent floor technologies and exist since several years; however their success is narrowed to limited market like nursing homes rather than the widespread aged communities.
In the context of independent living, wearable systems do not have the best acceptance for primary end-users (elderly persons), especially those who are not impaired.
The CARE system has a huge potential for exploitation and ensuring safety for independent living if the evaluation goes successful. The fall detection service can be integrated in the Everon caring system for a wider deployed in Europe strengthening the independent living market and society.
Partners
Partners involved in the CARE project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIT Austrian Institute of Technology (Coordinator) | R&D | Austria | www.ait.ac.at |
| SensoCube GmbH | SME | Germany | www.sensocube.com |
| Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Biomedical Engineering Knowledge Centre | R&D | Hungary | portal.bme.hu |
| Oy Everon Ab | SME | Finland | www.everon.net |
| Yrjö ja Hanna Ltd | End User | Finland | www.yrjojahanna.fi |
| Senioren Wohnpark Weser GmbH | End User | Germany | www.residenz-gruppe.de |
- Project name: Safe Private Homes for Elderly Persons
- Website: www.care-aal.eu
- Coordinator: AIT Austrian Institute of Technology
- Duration: 30 Months
- Starting Date: 01.07.2009
- Total budget: € 2.380.000
- Public contribution: € 1.730.000
Objectives
The project supports the development of an open, standardized, integrated European platform to deliver connected ICT-based assistive living solutions for the elderly. By building on initiatives at the national level and, taking account of different funding mechanisms in EU member states (Social insurance-based; Germany and Hungary, private insurance-based; Netherlands and taxation-based; UK), to develop and assess business models to support the mainstream provision of assistive solutions. The focus will be on dementia sufferers, but the platform will offer the potential to be extended to other chronic conditions.
Expected results and impact
The project has already had significant commercial success. The UK partners, Peverell and Centrihealth, have developed a new assisted living solution which uses the corkboard component of the CCE solution. They have invested considerable resources of their own to launch a new assisted living solution called Apollo in the UK and they openly state that they would not have developed this solution had they not been involved in the CCE project. UID have developed a dementia RFID enabled table, which has commercial spin offs in other areas.
Partners
Partners involved in the CCE project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Biomedical Engineering Knowledge Centre | R&D | Hungary | http://english.www.bme.hu |
| Building Research Establishment | R&D | UK | www.bre.co.uk |
| Centrihealth | Large Industry | UK | www.centrihealth.com |
| Fraunhofer | SME | Germany | www.igd.fraunhofer.de/en |
| Innomed Medical Inc. | Large Industry | Hungary | www.innomed.hu/about_us |
| MedCom GmbH | Large Industry | Germany | www.medcom-online.de |
| Hungarian Association of Home Care and Hospice | SME | Hungary | |
| Philips | Large Industry | Netherlands | www.philips.com/global |
| Peverel | End User | UK | www.peverel.co.uk |
| User Interface Design GmbH | Large Industry | Germany | www.uid.com/en/home |
- Project name: Connected Care for Elderly Persons Suffering from Dementia (CCE)
- Website: http://www.cceproject.eu/
- Coordinator: Building Research Establishment Limited (BRE)
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.07.2009
- Total budget: € 3.000.000
- Public contribution: € 1.500.000
Objectives
The BEDMOND project aims at developing an ICT-based system for an early detection of Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative diseases, based on a behavioural change to approach and focused in elderly people while living at home in an Ambient Assisted Living environment. With such an early detection health professionals can later on apply an also early treatment which will help the elder to live longer in an independent way at home by delaying as long as possible Alzheimer’s disease appearance.
Expected results and impact
While scientists deepen into genetic associations for neurodegenerative diseases, health professionals are searching for tools for an early diagnostic so that they can early apply clinical test and pharmacological treatment to slow down the disease progression. Combining tele-assistance and smart home technologies (Ambient Assisted Living), BEDMOND platform provides the doctor with objective information about behavioural changes and MCI detection prior to the disease is patent. Some behavioural changes occurred while being at home – objectively detected, recognized and interpreted through health professional’s criteria – are periodically reported to the doctor. Then, this decision-making support system can help to start an early drug treatment.
Partners
Partners involved in the BEDMOND project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| TECNALIA Research and Innovation Foundation (formerly ROBOTIKER Foundation) | R&D | Spain | www.tecnalia.com |
| INGEMA Foundation | End user / R&D | Spain | www.ingema.es |
| IBERNEX Ingeniería, S.L. | SME | Spain | www.ibernex.es |
| AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH | R&D | Austria | www.ait.at |
| Center for Usability Research & Engineering GmBH (CURE) | R&D | Austria | www.cure.at |
| METICUBE, Software Engineering | SME | Portugal | www.meticube.com |
- Project name: BEHAVIOUR PATTERN BASED ASSISTANT FOR THE EARLY DETECTION AND MANAGEMENT OF NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES
- Website: http://www.bedmond.eu
- Coordinator: TECNALIA RESEARCH AND INNOVATION (Spain)
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.07.2009
- Total budget: € 2.379.179,20
- Public contribution: € 1.378.564,51
Objectives
- Allows early detection of COPD exacerbations;
- Offers a user-friendly design for the elderly;
- Provides remote monitoring and home-based care;
- Fosters prevention and self-management;
- Increases levels of therapy compliance.
Expected results and impact
- Measurable indicators for early detection of exacerbations:
Design of AMICA Dedicated Mobile Device, Medical questionnaire and ad hoc sensor. - Measurable indicators for a better quality of life by mean of drops in hospitalisations and subsequent:
Decrease in costs associated to COPD - Effects upon quality of life of patients and family environment.
- Identify measurable indicator for AMICA services and business concept viability.
Partners
Partners involved in the AMICA project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Umeå University, Dept. of Informatics | R&D | Sweden | www.umu.se |
| Can Controls | SME | Germany | www.cancontrols.com |
| Athens Information Technology | R&D | Greece | www.ait.gr |
| Graz University of Technology | R&D | Austria | www.portal.tugraz.at |
| Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia | End user / R&D | Spain | www.uned.es |
| Kendro Merimnas Oikoyennias kai Pediou | End user | Greece | www.kmop.gr |
| ONDA Communication S.p.A | Large Industry | Italy | www.ondacommunication.com |
| Fundacion Instituto Gerontologico Matia | End user | Spain | www.ingema.es |
| Skellefteå Kommun | End user | Sweden | www.skelleftea.se |
- Project name: Autonomy Motivation & Individual Self-Management for COPD patients
- Website: http://www.amica-aal.com
- Coordinator: Luis Felipe Crespo Foix University of Cadiz (Spain)
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.04.2009
- Total budget: € 2.941.362
- Public contribution: € 2.784.181
Objectives
The general objective of IS-ACTIVE is to devise a person-centric healthcare solution for patients with chronic conditions – especially elderly people – based on miniaturised wireless inertial sensors, which provide distributed motion capture and intelligent recognition of activities and situations.
The home becomes the main care environment, where patients can receive real-time feedback in order to monitor, self-manage and improve their physical condition according to their specific situation.
Expected results and impact
IS-ACTIVE aims at producing tangible results in the form of fully-functional prototypes with a relatively short estimated time to market (1-2 years).
The IS-ACTIVE consortium aims to design, build and test systems that can eventually be bought and used by the individuals, instead of being the property of healthcare institutions. IS-ACTIVE will attempt to shift medical device technology into the mainstream consumer electronics market. This implies that there is a strong focus towards ease of use, integration and pricing.
Partners
Partners involved in the IS-ACTIVE project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Twente | R&D | Netherlands | www.utwente.nl |
| Roessingh Research & Development | R&D / SME / End User | Netherlands | www.rrd.nl |
| Inertia Technology | R&D / SME | Netherlands | www.inertia-technology.com |
| Norwegian Centre for Integrated Care and Telemedicine | R&D / End User | Norway | www.telemed.no |
| NORUT Northern Research Institute | R&D | Norway | www.norut.no |
| University Hospital Elias | R&D / End User | Romania | www.spitalul-elias.ro |
| PROSYS PC | R&D / SME | Romania | www.prosyspc.ro |
- Project name: Inertial Sensing Systems for Advanced Chronic Condition Monitoring and Risk Prevention
- Website: www.is-active.eu
- Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Paul Havinga, University of Twente (The Netherlands)
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.04.2009
- Total budget: € 1,814,812
- Public contribution: € 1,394,777