Track B – Broadening AAL
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The European Union is experiencing a demographic change which is of high relevance for socioeconomic development and the livelihood in broadest sense. The demographic change with all its implications has been addressed by competent governing bodies at all levels. Action has been taken in many ways: by strengthening the health care sector through cluster cooperation initiatives that allow widespread of integrated, innovative and transferable health care models and solutions for healthy ageing and independent living, by improving urban life through more sustainable integrated solutions, by fostering policies that are thought to scale up the bridge gap between seller and buyer, producer and user of ICT solutions for ageing well.
This Track is meant to set up, in the context of ICT based solutions for active and assisted living, the landscape of present and future ideas and ways to broaden the horizon of the AAL Program across Europe and beyond its borders.
These issues will be discussed in 4 different sessions:
B1. Integration policies
B2. Connecting AAL solutions
B3. Europe Health Cluster
B4. Smart Cities and AAL
B5. Future call challenges
B1 – Integration policies
Session Chair: Adolfo Muñoz, Telemedicine Unit ISCIII, Spain
Session Responsible: Teresa Chavarria, Istituto Carlos III, Spain and Javier Valero, Ametic (Spain)
Across Europe, the number of people who have health problems or need assistance requiring both health and social care is increasing. This number will continue to rise in the next 20 years, meaning that a larger amount of people will require a combination of health and social services. On the other hand, ageing societies will bring higher public costs such as public pensions, social care and health services provision.
Frequently social and health care services don’t work in an integrated and coordinated manner. Patients are sent to hospitals or stay there too long when they could have been cared for at home, they receive the same service twice (from social care and National Health System) etc.
Integration of health and social care is an ambitious reform that many European countries are facing to ensure that health and social care provision is joined-up and seamless, especially for people with long term conditions and disabilities, many of whom are older people.
The scope of this session is to present different policy integration approaches that by adding ICT based solutions are able to create a coordinated patient-centred care system.
Specific attention will be put on the policy on the European level, both in terms of implementation policy and strategy in a global context, but also on national programmes reflecting European policy and the regional approach of European cohesion policy.
Invited Speakers:
Contributions:
B1-1 Working Together for Healthy Growth in Europe AndreaPavlickova – Scottish Centre for Telehealth and Telecare, Scotland, (UK) – download presentation
B1-2 Pilot MiAvizor. Social Community Teleprevention. Jesus Marcial MENDEZ MAGAN, Regional Government of Galicia – Xunta de Galicia (Spain) – download presentation
B1-3 System Dynamics in AAL Christian Haberfellner, Red Cross Innsbruck (Austria) – download presentation
B1-4 Connecting AAL devices and systems to improve service delivery Paul Panek, Christian Beck, Georg Edelmayer, Peter Mayer, Marjo Rauhala, Wolfgang L Zagler, Vienna University of Technology (Austria) – download presentation
B2 – Connecting AAL solutions
Session Chair: Adolfo Muñoz, Telemedicine Unit ISCIII, Spain
Session Responsible: Teresa Chavarria, Istituto Carlos III, Spain and Javier Valero, Ametic (Spain)
There is a growing offer of AAL devices, systems and services aiming to enhance older adults’ quality of life. It is expected that private market for consumers coexist with the formal healthcare and social care services provision, all following the major trend of integrated and connected care.
Connecting solutions address networking capabilities to bring together people, services, community assets, and information to help different stakeholders achieve AAL challenges. This implies dealing with increasingly complex socio-technical AAL ecosystems. Concerned issues include scale up, interoperability, security and older adult’s safety.
In this session we will be devoted to explore current requirements, we will take knowledge of activities covering different approaches and experiences on how interoperability solutions can support the shift towards better care at home and in the community, and on ways to integrate existing AAL technological developments to allow services to be delivered more efficiently and affordably in a digitally connected society.
Contributions:
B2-1 Integration Profiles: an Approach for Cracking the Interoperability Challenge in AAL Marco Eichelberg, Axel Helmer, Lars Rölker-Denker – OFFIS-Institute for Information Technology (Germany) – download presentation
B2-2 What do we need assistive technologies for? Riitta Hellman, Karde AS (Norway) – download presentation
B2-3 AAL services: From Interoperability to Platform Requirements of Large-Scale Pilots. Bruno Jean-Bart -TRIALOG (France) – download presentation
B2-4 One Year of VictoryaHome J. Artur Serrano – Norwegian Centre for Telemedicine, University Hospital of North Norway. Department of Clinical Medicine, UiT Arctic University of Norway (Norway) – download presentation
Herjan van den Heuvel – Smart Homes (Netherlands)
Patrik Bjorkman, Stephen von Rump – Giraff Technologies (Sweden)
B2-5 Autonomous Healthy Diet for Older Adults Juan CarlosBarrera, VíctorSánchez – ISOIN (Spain) – download presentation
LinaBarakat, King’s College London, (United Kingdom)
Tudor Cioara, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (Romania)
B3 – Europe Health Cluster
Session Chair: Meike de Jong, Meike de Jong Media (The Netherlands)
Session Responsible: Peter Portheine, Brainport Health Innovation/Slimmer Leven 2020 Brainport (The Netherlands) and Edwin Mermans, Coral/ENGAGED/CASA/Province of Noord-Brabant (The Netherlands)
A landscape of European networks, programs, partnerships, projects and clusters has arisen in recent years all working on implementation of smart ICT solutions for independent living & integrated care. Together we are a learning community to tackle the barriers for up scaling and create a market for AAL technology. We’ve learned that the regional scale makes a difference for serious implementation. Large entities in this European learning community are the Ambient Assisted Living Joint Programme (AAL JP), European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP AHA) – including the 35 regional reference sites – and the Community of Regions for Assisted Living (CORAL) about regional policy for Active and Healthy Ageing connecting regional innovation clusters. Within the Interreg programme the ‘Strategic Health Cluster Europe’ brings together parties from the Interreg IVA/B/C program with a total of 128 partners. Interreg projects involved are CAN, CASA, COALAS, CURA-B, DIC, GCS, In2Lifesciences, Innovate Dementia, istay@home, ITTS, NeuroSKILL, RECAP, SYSIASS, Telemedicine and Personalized Care and TTC. The Assembly of European Regions (AER) with an e-Health network and several projects like the Thematic Network ENGAGED are on the same mission. Also small innovation clusters in Central European countries are ready to join this growing European learning network. How can we connect all these networks, partnerships, programmes and clusters better to the AAL JP.
The session touches on how to create regional alignment between AAL and other European programs, projects and networks. Not only for regions to be better equipped and to be involved in such programs but also because a coherent regional strategy allows much better and wider implementation of AAL technology once developed. We will showcase Reference sites explaining their specific regional and unique selling points, focusing on specific thematic issues from references site to AAL solution. Answers to questions like: How can twinning activities, side events and activities from the EIP AHA, Coral, AER, Interreg contribute to better implementation and up scaling of smart ICT solutions? How can the AAL JP be promoted better within the regional innovation clusters? How can regional and municipal governments be involved and stimulated to participate in the AAL JP? What can networks like Coral, AER and the reference site do to include and mobilise partners in Central European countries? How to mobilize the regions and governments that are unengaged so far?
Invited Speakers:
Peter Portheine Brainport / Slimmer Leven 2020 (The Netherlands)
Maurice Smith, Liverpool Clinical Commissioning Group (United Kingdom) – download presentation
Esteban de Manuel Keenoy, Kronikgune, Basque Country (Spain)
Ida Prosperi, Sviluppo Marche SpA, Marche Region RDA (Italy) – I-Prosperi_Track-B3
Vesna Dolničar, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences (Slovenia)
Márta TATÁR, Covasna county Council (Romania)
Raquel Fernandez Horcajada, AAL JP Central management Unit (Belgium)
B4 – Smart Cities and AAL
Session Chair: Teresa Chavarria, Istituto Carlos III, Spain
Session Responsible: Teresa Chavarria, Istituto Carlos III, Spain and Javier Valero, Ametic (Spain)
What makes a city smart? Is the focus on technology or the sustainable use of resources? Increasing the quality of life of citizens? How can smart cities help older adults live better for longer?
This session will explore both, the connections between Smart Cities and AAL and the impact that the crossroad in which these concepts converge can have on promoting active and healthy ageing within the broader domain of a city.
The discussion will shift from ideas to what is being done nowadays by introducing a reference smart city, AAL products and services to be deployed in such a scenario, as well as European Initiatives built to bring the Smart AAL City a little bit closer to us.
Invited Speakers:
Diego López de Ipiña, University Of Deusto (Spain) – download presentation
Inmaculada Luengo, HI-IBERIA (Spain)
Paul Pelsmaeker, FiCHE (The Netherlands) – download presentation
B5 – Future call challenges
Session Chair: Teresa Chavarria, Istituto Carlos III, Spain
Session Responsible: Karina Marcus, AAL JP Central management Unit, Belgium
The AAL Programme began a new phase as approved in May 2014 by the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union. For the next following years the Programme is committed to accelerate the emergence and take-up of relevant, affordable and integrated innovative ICT-based solutions for active and healthy ageing, in such a way that the ICT component does not reduce human contact, maintaining and developing a critical mass of applied research, development and innovation at Union level and creating a favourable environment for the participation of small and medium-sized enterprises.
To achieve these goals, the AAL Programme will identify challenges for future calls. Specifically in this session, we invite the AAL community to actively contribute with their expertise and vision in the discussions of the next and future challenges in ICT for Ageing Well and to build the best scenario through discussion, interaction and cooperative work.
Invited Speakers:
Dr Juliet Craig, University of Sheffield, United Kindom – download presentation
Dr Fillipo Cavallo, The BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy – download presentation
Prof Paolo Maria Rossini, Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy – download presentation
Jolien Wenink, JPI Healthy Diet for a Healthy Life – download presentation