Project: elderly sELF-care based on sELF-check of health conditions and sELF-fitness at home

Acronym	ELF@Home (Reference Number: aal-2012-5-123)
Duration	01/06/2013 - 01/06/2016
Project Topic	Frailty syndrome is emerging in last years as an explanation for age disability when no relevant pathology exists. Frailty confers high risk for falls, disability for activities of daily living (ADL disability), cognitive disease and is an important cause of loss of autonomy. The project idea is to use the proven advantages of elderly fitness to develop a personalized self-care solution based on self-check of health conditions and elderly fitness at home. The solution will use an autonomous fitness system targeting not frailty or pre-frailty elder people aged over 65 years and living independently at home. The system will empower end-users by allowing them to prevent frailty, dependency and functional decline by doing fitness at home. As a result, the use of this solution will help the elderly to stay independently at home and to deal autonomously with the activities of daily living. The fitness program generated automatically by the service will be personalized based on the health status and the continuous monitoring of activity level of the user. This continuous monitoring will be accomplished by the development of a new wearable activity sensor specially designed for elderly needs. The health status monitoring will be done using biomedical sensors. A TV interface and a computer vision system will be used during fitness sessions to analyse fitness exercises execution. All these components will be connected to a service platform implementing the intelligence needed. The system will be tested by two groups of users: users who will be supervised by professional gerontologists, and elderly people living in spare areas and with no previous experiences with elderly fitness. The first group will allow the validation of the proposed system in comparison with the current approaches. The second group will validate technology deployment and usability in an important potential market.
Network	AAL
Call	Call 5 – Daily Life Activities

Project partner

Number	Name	Role	Country
	2D Debus & Diebold Meßsysteme GmbH		Germany
	CheckUp AB		Sweden
	Explizit AB		Sweden
	Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS		Germany
	Fundacion CTIC Centro Tecnologico de la Informacion y la Comunicacion		Spain
	Innovationsmanufaktur GmbH		Germany
	Izertis		Spain
	Skellefteå Kommun		Sweden
	Sociedad Gerontologica y Geriatrica del Principado de Asturias		Spain
	Umeå University		Sweden