Pharaon partners Gérontopôle Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Information Catalyst organized and participated in activities at the AgeingFit Conference 2022 in Lille, France. Gérontopôle Nouvelle-Aquitaine organised in collaboration with the National Council of Silver Economy a hosted event during AgeingFit 2022 under the heading “The Active and Healthy Ageing...
The Andalusian pilot organized a training and evaluation day on 4 March 2022 at the Technology Park GEOLIT in Mengíbar, Jaén, Spain. The action research evaluation methodology was shared with the 30 social service workers that participated. This deepened there understanding of the evaluation instruments that...
Background: Information and communication technology solutions have the potential to support active and healthy aging and improve monitoring and treatment outcomes. To make such solutions acceptable, all stakeholders must be involved in the requirements elicitation process. Due to the COVID-19 situation, alternative approaches to commonly used...
On February 18 and 19 2022, the Pharaon partner University of Jaén held a conference on "Technology and health pilots for people with dependencies" to engage Pharaon and liaise with projects working on similar topics. The projects “Autonomous environments with sensorization of care plans for people...
On February 8 and 9 2022 the second prevalidation seminars of the Murcian Pharaon Pilot were held at the facilities of Servicio Murciano de Salud. Patients and caregivers participating in the Pilot learned to use the Myhealth app, developed by INDRA in the context of Pharaon...
During the COVID-19 emergency, most domiciliary social services were suspended to avoid the risk of contagion, leaving older people at a greater risk of social isolation. Assistive technology has the potential to support the work of social professionals in promoting social inclusion and assistance of...
Background: Action research (AR) is an established research framework to introduce change in a community following a cyclical approach and involving stakeholders as coresearchers in the process. In recent years, it has also been used for eHealth development. However, little is known about the best practices...
In this work, the Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR) and Mixed Reality (MR) technologies are presented as candidate tools for promoting cognitive and physical activity and for avoiding social isolation in ageing population. The work includes a desk-research, focused on the software/hardware solutions, innovations...
Pharaon partner Caritas Coimbra tested the SENTAB App, a social network designed for older people, again with its users on 21 and 22 December 2021. All safety protocols for the prevention of COVID-19 were followed by the research team. The system was tested again after...
Background: The Pilots for Healthy and Active Ageing (PHArA-ON) project aims to ensure reality smart and active living for Europe’s ageing population by creating a set of integrated and highly customizable interoperable open platforms with advanced services, devices, and technologies and tools. The aim of...