Users’ needs and requirements elicitation In March 2020 co-creation sessions and workshops were planned to gathering users’ needs and requirements at the pilot level. Yet, to overcome the restrictions related to the COVID-19 emergency, phone and remote interviews replaced face-to-face meetings: 73 interviews to formal caregivers,...
Pharaon, together with colleagues from the health and care cluster - SHAPES, SPHINX, ADLIFE, GATEKEEPER, SMARTBEAR, ACTIVAGE - drafted a paper on "Reference Architectures, Platforms, and Pilots for European Smart and Healthy Living—Analysis and Comparison". Grguric, A.; Khan, O.; Ortega-Gil, A.; Markakis, E.K.; Pozdniakov, K.; Kloukinas,...
Between 18 and 20 June 2021, the first edition of CASSINI Hackathons was held, an initiative of the European Commission that “seeks candidates to develop innovative solutions for green spaces through the use of spatial data, contributing to a more digital and sustainable Europe”. Cáritas Coimbra...
Pharaon intends to develop integrated platforms that allow personalized and optimized health and social care and to maintain the dignity of older people and foster their independence and functional ability for as long as possible. Pharaon’s integrated platforms will be validated in two stages: pre-validation and large-scale...
Kira Oberschmidt's PhD research is situated within the Pharaon project and investigates the action research that is conducted in each pilot from a meta-perspective. The collection of appropriate information as input for such action research guidelines is part of her thesis. She follows the definition of...
Older adults are the most vulnerable and fastest-growing age group in Europe. Ageing introduces psychosocial and physical challenges that should be addressed (ten Bruggencate et al., 2019; Zallio and Berry, 2016). WHO views Healthy Ageing as a solution to these challenges, and considers older adults...
Pharaon attended the event of the European project IDIH - International Digital Health Cooperation for Preventive, Integrated, Independent and Inclusive Living on 4 June 2021. AGE Platform Europe, Cáritas Diocesana de Coimbra, CETEM, Medea and Stelar Security Technology Law Research UG joined the four co-creation sessions. They...
Pharaon as partner of the EU's health & care cluster of large-scale pilots jointly organized a webinar with the WHO's Digital and Assistive Technologies for Ageing (DATA) group on the 21 May 2021. Sustaining the cohesive role played by technology nowadays, the World Health Organization (WHO)...
The Pharaon project's Ethics Board, chaired by Caritas Coimbra, met for the first time on the 19th May 2021. The Pharaon Ethics Board is composed of representatives from each of the 6 large-scale pilots, 8 external experts and 8 representatives of the end users of...
Ageing Thinking Having in mind that the quality and access to Care represents only 20% of the Social Determinants of Health (SDOH), the Portuguese pilot outlined a strategy focused on bringing healthy behaviors and environments into the heart of Health and Care, thus bridging the concepts...