Objective
The number of elderly living with cognitive impairment is growing rapidly due to increasing life expectancy. The percentage of those who live alone depends upon the condition (i.e. roughly 30% of those diagnosed with dementia) but the majority would like to live in their own home or with family, provided that it is safe, comfortable, and cost effective. IN LIFE aims to prolong and support independent living for elderly with cognitive impairments, through interoperable, open, personalised and seamless ICT services that support home activities, communication, health maintenance, travel, mobility and socialization, with novel, scalable and viable business models, based on feedback from large-scale, multi-country pilots. Building on existing knowledge and tested AAL technology/services IN LIFE will offer 19 different services, which will be further optimised and adapted to the particular needs and wants of various elderly groups, including mild cognitive impairment (MCI), early dementia and cognitive impairment with co morbid conditions, plus formal and informal caregivers. These interoperable services will be integrated into an open, cloud- based, reference architecture to be tested in 6 Europe-wide pilots in Greece, Netherlands, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and UK, with over 1200 elderly with cognitive impairments, 600 formal and informal caregivers, and 60 other stakeholders. Attention will be paid to issues concerning multilingual and multicultural environments. The project will establish and extensively test new business models for a new taxonomy of elderly with cognitive impairments, encompassing those that are clustered as “dependent”, “at risk”, “assisted” or “active” and formulating and accessing new business scenarios, such as the “user-centric”, “service provider-centric” and “data exploitation-centric” ones. This work will be carried out in 36 months by 20 partners from 9 European countries, totaling 591PMs with a total requested financing of 3.38M€ euros.
Fields of science
- natural scienceschemical sciencesinorganic chemistrytransition metals
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementbusiness models
- medical and health sciencesbasic medicineneurologydementia
- social sciencessocial geographytransportpublic transport
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicssustainable economy
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Funding Scheme
IA - Innovation action
Coordinator
28040 Madrid
Spain
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Participants (20)
57001 Thermi Thessaloniki
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462 80 Vanersborg
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581 83 Linkoping
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20018 Donostia San Sebastian
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28003 Madrid
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S10 2TN Sheffield
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7522 AH Enschede
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9 Dublin
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1060 Wien
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1000 Ljubljana
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55535 Pylaia
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08035 Barcelona
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
7622 CM Borne
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48970 Basauri
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Legal entity other than a subcontractor which is affiliated or legally linked to a participant. The entity carries out work under the conditions laid down in the Grant Agreement, supplies goods or provides services for the action, but did not sign the Grant Agreement. A third party abides by the rules applicable to its related participant under the Grant Agreement with regard to eligibility of costs and control of expenditure.
48970 Basauri Bizkaia
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57010 Eksoxi
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4040 Linz
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11741 Athina
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
S5 8UG Sheffield
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1000 Ljubljana
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