Life expectancy has risen sharply in the European Region in the last few decades. The share of elder people is increasing steadily in many European countries and is predicted to rise still further in the coming decades (
https://goo.gl/7UY0ov(opens in new window)). Increasing rates of care- dependent older people that is becoming the most important challenge for the European social and health services, and for the European economy itself, as with these demographic trends, the system will become unsustainable in a few years.
Remote care and prevention strategies are mandatory for all European countries but innovative and disruptive approaches are required to bring closer to the society the potential benefits of technology to the telecare services at home. Unfortunately, up to now, implementation of preventive eldercare services strategies have been hampered by the limited functionalities of the ICT solutions, the lack of accessibility for elderly users and the high price of advances ehealth devices used by the eldercare service providers.
IDEABLE, a European SME pioneer on the development of software based ICT solutions specifically focused on elderly care services at home has been working during the last 4 years in the development of Kwido www.kwido.com an accessible and user friendly platform for elderly users and utilities focused on their needs and their caregivers’ demands, being the most accessible and usable solution for the growing eldercare market.
IDEABLE proposes the present project in order to accelerate the market uptake of prevention and care at home for the elderly through the disruptive KWIDO@TELECARE platform the most complete, flexible and revolutionary platform for caring elderly patients at home, focused on the telecare service providers and their clients (public and private institutions) as customers.
By implementing KWIDO@TELECARE project IDEABLE aims to leverage Kwido potential from the introduction 7 new key innovative functionalities targeted for eldercare services at home. First versions of these new functionalities has been already tested in pilots with early adopters but additional effort is needed to fully develop them and to define the business model to successfully exploit it.
