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My Active and Healthy Aging

Project description

Early and accurate detection of age-related frailties

Interrelated frailties often manifest in older people, encompassing cognitive decline, physical weakness, depression, anxiety, and poor sleep quality. These conditions contribute to social isolation and impose a social and economic burden on both ageing adults and healthcare systems. Detecting these frailties early is crucial for promoting active and healthy ageing (AHA) and mitigating further decline. The EU funded my-AHA project aims to employ advanced analytical concepts to facilitate early and precise health monitoring and disease prevention through personalised detection, recommendations, feedback and support. The project seeks to reduce the risk of frailty by enhancing overall wellbeing in ageing individuals, encompassing aspects such as physical activity, cognitive function, psychological wellbeing, nutrition and sleep.

Objective

Background
We propose a holistic view of interrelated frailties: cognitive decline, physical frailty, depression and anxiety, social isolation and poor sleep quality, which are a major burden to older adults and social and health care systems. Early detection and intervention are crucial in sustaining active and healthy ageing (AHA) and slowing or reversing further decline.

Aims and Relevance
The main aim of my-AHA is to reduce frailty risk by improving physical activity and cognitive function, psychological state, social resources, nutrition, sleep and overall well-being. It will empower older citizens to better manage their own health, resulting in healthcare cost savings. my-AHA will use state-of-the-art analytical concepts to provide new ways of health monitoring and disease prevention through individualized profiling and personalized recommendations, feedback and support.

Approach
An ICT-based platform will detect defined risks in the frailty domains early and accurately via non-stigmatising embedded sensors and data readily available in the daily living environment of older adults. When risk is detected, my-AHA will provide targeted ICT-based interventions with a scientific evidence base of efficacy, including vetted offerings from established providers of medical and AHA support. These interventions will follow an integrated approach to motivate users to participate in exercise, cognitively stimulating games and social networking to achieve long-term behavioural change, sustained by continued end user engagement with my-AHA.

Scale and Sustainability
The proposed platform provides numerous incentives to engage diverse stakeholders, constituting a sustainable ecosystem with empowered end users and reliable standardised interfaces for solutions providers, which will be ready for larger scale deployment at project end. The ultimate aim is to deliver significant innovation in the area of AHA by cooperation with European health care organizations, SMEs, NGOs.

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Coordinator

UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI TORINO
Net EU contribution

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€ 474 034,21
Address
VIA GIUSEPPE VERDI 8
10124 TORINO
Italy

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Region
Nord-Ovest Piemonte Torino
Activity type
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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€ 474 034,21

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