Many elderly people feel unsafe outside their homes which limits their social contacts and physical activities. MyHealth@Age aims to provide products and services making it possible for elderly people to feel safer and live a more active and healthy life. Healthcare and Welfare organizations (HWO) have problems to provide good medical and welfare ... More...

Many elderly people feel unsafe outside their homes which limits their social contacts and physical activities. MyHealth@Age aims to provide products and services making it possible for elderly people to feel safer and live a more active and healthy life.

Healthcare and Welfare organizations (HWO) have problems to provide good medical and welfare services to the rapidly increasing elderly population, especially at distant and less populated regions. MyHealth@Age aims to provide products and services making it possible to involve the elderly people more actively in distance spanning healthcare and welfare activities. This can improve the quality and capacity within the limited resources available. MyHealth@Age will therefore be important to secure good health and well being for the increased number of elderly people in northern periphery regions the coming years.

The products and services focus on mobile safety alarms, prescribed self treatment and social networks, identified as important by end-users at earlier projects. They will be developed and evaluated through field trials in close co-operation between elderly people, HWO staff, ICT companies and Universities in Sweden, Norway and Northern Ireland. Through dialogues with HWO decision makers, elderly people and market and sale partners, business models will be developed making it possible to offer the products and services in larger scale after the project.

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The project will create a new modular product platform that makes it possible to provide safety-, prescribed self treatment- and social network applications to elderly people based on each individuals specific needs and circumstances. Already during the project, several new applications will be developed, evaluated and enhanced. Examples are fall... More...

The project will create a new modular product platform that makes it possible to provide safety-, prescribed self treatment- and social network applications to elderly people based on each individuals specific needs and circumstances.

Already during the project, several new applications will be developed, evaluated and enhanced. Examples are fall sensor alarm with assistance support suitable both for alarm centres and for friends and relatives, prescribed self treatment that makes it possible for HWO to offer supervised quality assured self medication avoiding the need for own staff to perform the medication for elderly people that can manage this by themselves, enhanced social networks that will improve isolated elderly peoples social life. These are examples of applications that will be developed and evaluated.

The new products and applications will make it possible for HWO to provide new services to elderly people. The new products and services will also utilize the HWO staff more efficiently making it possible for HWO to manage the increased demand for healthcare and welfare services due to the rapidly increasing number of elderly people.

After the project it will be easy to develop even more applications utilizing new sensors for detection of for example epileptic problems, health problems etc. It will also be possible for HWO to provide supervised prescribed self treatment programs utilizing other kind of diagnose equipment used during the trials. The project will therefore open-up completely new possibilities of large value both for elderly people and HWO in the northern periphery region.

The new, innovative ICT products will be important for the northern periphery ICT companies expansion. They will strengthen their market position and generate new revenues making it possible to offer northern periphery citizens valuable employment opportunities.

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The project will develop three products: a. Mobile safety alarm with wirelessly connected fall sensor. That includes functionality for elderly end-users, alarm centre staff and welfare assistance staff. b. Prescribed Healthcare that support own diagnose measurements, medication support and secure messaging between patients and healthcare staff. ... More...

The project will develop three products:

a. Mobile safety alarm with wirelessly connected fall sensor. That includes functionality for elderly end-users, alarm centre staff and welfare assistance staff. 

b. Prescribed Healthcare that support own diagnose measurements, medication support and secure messaging between patients and healthcare staff. The product includes graphical diagnose measurement visualization to improve the patient awareness about the importance to compleate treatment programs, make physical exercises and healthy diet.

c. Social network to stimulate social contacts between elderly people.

The products and the healthcare and welfare services are described by produucts and service sheets available at www.myhealth-age.eu.

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The project has so far specified the requirements and developed a prototype in close co-operation between elderly people, healthcare and welfare staff, ICT companies and reserachers. The products have been developed. Education/training has started as well as field trial usage. At the Swedish trial site, daily life usage has started with Prescribed... More...

The project has so far specified the requirements and developed a prototype in close co-operation between elderly people, healthcare and welfare staff, ICT companies and reserachers.

The products have been developed. Education/training has started as well as field trial usage. At the Swedish trial site, daily life usage has started with Prescribed Healthcare. The Mobile Safety Alarm functionality has been released and the end-users evaluate the product at the moment. Daily life usage will start mid November. As soon as the end-users are comfortable with these products, the Social Network product will be introduced.

The Norwegian field-trial site introduce the new products and services following the Swedish example with about one month delay.

The Northern Ireland trial site begin instead with Social Network. When the end-users feel confident using that, the other products and services are released.

Several regional dissemination events has been performed especially in Sweden (see the Swedish part of www.myhealth-age.eu). The responce has been very positive.

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