InLife

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), 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 Ambient Assisted Living 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, totalling 591PMs with a total requested financing of 3.38M€ Euros.

Consortium

Universidad Politecnica de Madrid- Life Supporting Technologies, Spain
Centre for Research and Technology Hellas , Greece
Vastra Gotalands Lans Landstring, Sweden
Linkopings Universitet -Centre For Dementia Research, Sweden
Fundaction Instituto GErentologico Matia-Ingema, Spain
Consortio regional De Transportes De Madrid, Spain
The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Roessingh Research and Development BV, Netherlands
Dublin City University, Ireland
Internationales Informationszentrum fur Terminologie, Austria
Institut Jozef Stefan, Slovenia
MLS Multimedia S.A., Greece
Open Evidence, Spain
Stichting Trivium Meulenbelt zorg, Netherlands
VIRTUALWARE 2007, Spain
General Hospital of Thessaloniki “G. Papanikolaou” Interconnected
Psychiatric Hospital of Thessaloniki, Greece
Association for the Advancement of Assistive Technology, Austria
BYTE Computer SA, Greece
Sheffcare Ltd., United Kingdom
Doktor 24 d.o.o., Slovenia