Objective The OLDES project will offer new technological solutions to improve the quality of life of older people. OLDES aims at developing a very low cost and easy to use entertainment and health care platform designed to ease the life of older people in their homes. In order to achieve this, new concepts developed in Information Technologies will be integrated and adapted. The platform will be based on a PC corresponding to Negroponte's paradigm of a 100 device, giving the guarantee of an affordable system. OLDES will provide: user entertainment services, through easy-to-access thematic channels and special interest forums supported by animators; and health care facilities based on established Internet and tele-care communication standards.The system will include wireless ambient and medical sensors linked via a contact centre to social services and health care providers. OLDES will also cover the definition, implementation and evaluation of a Knowledge Management (KM) program, an advanced user profiling system that will enhance the communication between all the stakeholders of the system. The system will be tested at two different locations: Italy over a group of 100 elderly (including 10 suffering with cardio disease) and Czech Republic over a group of 10 diabetic patients. OLDES puts older people at the centre and makes their needs the main priority in all developments.This will be achieved through the use of modelling and animation tools to create scenarios designed to elicit responses from older people, their carers, and service providers. Animation and simulation will help to ensure that developments are, at all stages, grounded in the realties of social and health care, the cultures and economies of the specific pilot contexts, and as wide a range as possible of other European public service contexts. To maximise the flexibility and exploitability of its products, technical outputs will be packaged appropriately into highly configurable service components. Fields of science medical and health scienceshealth scienceshealth care serviceseHealthsocial sciencessociologygovernancepublic servicesnatural sciencescomputer and information sciencesinternetengineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensorssocial sciencespolitical sciencesgovernment systems Programme(s) FP6-IST - Information Society Technologies: thematic priority under the specific programme "Integrating and strengthening the European research area" (2002-2006). Topic(s) IST-2005-2.6.2 - Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) in the Ageing Society Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme STREP - Specific Targeted Research Project Coordinator ENTE PER LE NUOVE TECNOLOGIE, L'ENERGIA E L'AMBIENTE Address Lungotevere thaon di revel 76 00196 Roma Italy See on map EU contribution € 0,00 Participants (10) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all AGENTSCAPE AG Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address Buelowstrasse 66, aufgang d3 2 10783 Berlin See on map ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA Italy EU contribution € 0,00 Address Via zamboni 33 40126 Bologna See on map AZIENDA UNITA SANITARIA LOCALE DI BOLOGNA Italy EU contribution € 0,00 Address Via castiglione 29 40124 Bologna See on map CENTRE D'EXCELLENCE EN TECHNOLOGIES DE L'INFORMATION ET DE LA COMMUNICATION Belgium EU contribution € 0,00 Address Rue clement ader 8 6041 Charleroi See on map CESKE VYSOKE UCENI TECHNICKE V PRAZE Czechia EU contribution € 0,00 Address Zikova 4 166 36 Praha 6 See on map COMUNE DI BOLOGNA Italy EU contribution € 0,00 Address Piazza maggiore 6 40121 Bologna See on map CUP 2000 SPA Italy EU contribution € 0,00 Address Via del borgo di san pietro 90c 40126 Bologna See on map INK MEDIA INC Canada EU contribution € 0,00 Address 4181 rocky mountain road V0R 2L0 Malahat bc See on map THE UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE United Kingdom EU contribution € 0,00 Address 6 kensington terrace NE1 7RU Newcastle upon tyne See on map UNIVERZITA KARLOVA V PRAZE Czechia EU contribution € 0,00 Address Ovocny trh 5 116 36 Praha 1 See on map
