Project: Dynamic nutrItion bEhaviour awareness sysTem FOR the Elders

Acronym	DIET4Elders (Reference Number: aal-2012-5-195)
Duration	01/07/2013 - 01/07/2016
Project Topic	DIET4Elders objective is to develop an innovative ICT-based system to provide support services to: (i) assist older adults and their informal carers during daily self-feeding activities aiming at detecting and preventing the instauration of malnutrition, (ii) help the nutritionists/ clinicians to establish the degree in which the older adults follow their prescribed diet and to dynamically adjust it and (iii) enable the dynamic selection, based on the prescribed diet, of suitable food service providers and potentially enabling automated shopping. More specifically, based on linked older adults profiles and clinically-informed diet knowledge, DIET4Elders system collects data regarding the older adult’s self-feeding activities and the context in which these activities took place, and dynamically performs data analysis to assess the older adults’ diet to identify unhealthy feeding behavioral patterns that lead to malnutrition. The resulting knowledge, after data analysis, is made available to end-users and their carers through specifically developed support services to provide user-custom experience and user-adaptable assisting functionality. The knowledge is also used to select and combine the appropriate food ordering services that will provide the right combination of food that will match both the users’ needs and wishes and their recommended diet.
Network	AAL
Call	Call 5 – Daily Life Activities

Project partner

Number	Name	Role	Country
	COESCO DEZA, S.L.		Spain
	Ingenieria y Soluciones Informaticas del Sur S.L.		Spain
	King's College London		United Kingdom
	Technical University of Cluj-Napoca		Romania
	Tunstall Healthcare Ltd		United Kingdom