Project: Platform for self-assessment and efficient management of the informal caregiver

Acronym	BREATHE (Reference Number: aal-2012-5-045)
Duration	01/05/2013 - 01/01/2016
Project Topic	Challenges addressed and AAL-solutions proposed. Nowadays informal caregivers (IC) face to a number of problems: lack of experience; limited formal education in care, limited societal support; lack of specific tools to manage the whole care cycle; problems with coordinating care and employment; stress and depression. ICs provide 80% of long term care to dependent older people in Europe, and family care breakdown leads to expensive institutionalization. BREATHE offers a personalized solution for the IC that provides strategic long term care support (years) mitigating the feeling of isolation, stress and lack of support. It impacts at personal level, by increasing QoLife and care, and at Regional and European levels, by providing a tool to effectively manage the hidden and costly reality of the informal care, leading to new business opportunities and employment, and reduction of health system costs. 2. Primary target: Informal caregivers; Secondary: elderly people (some degree of dependency). 3. Technologies. Web-based personalized tool that keeps a model of the status of both the assisted person and the IC and creates intervention strategies. The tool is fed by: 1) AAL system at home that collects information about daily life activities based on sensors and/or image-based monitoring system combined with techniques for privacy preservation; 2) Structured information: assessment questionnaires (Barthel, Zarit); 3) Non-structured free text information analysis (i.e. dairy, social networks posts). IC may also access through smart phone app (daily life management) and social networks (to involve family network). 4. Business model. Briefly, BREATHE is a Technology Provider of Public or Private Service Providers of social care, who.sell the platform to ICs who would pay a periodic fee for the service. 5. Around 100 users will participate in ES, UK and Ireland, at specification, validation and assessment during 30 months in an agile multidisciplinary environment.
Network	AAL
Call	Call 5 – Daily Life Activities

Project partner

Number	Name	Role	Country
	Bath Institute of Medical Engineering		United Kingdom
	Cybermoor Services Ltd		United Kingdom
	Erremme Associati s.a.s		Italy
	Iniativa Social Integral		Spain
	Kingston University Higher Education Corporation		United Kingdom
	OVOSODO		Italy
	Red Skies Limited		United Kingdom
	Soluciones Tecnológicas para la Salud y el Bienestar, S.A.		Spain
	Trinity College Dublin		Ireland
	Trionic Sverige AB		Sweden
	TriplePlay Services Ltd		United Kingdom
	Tunstall Emergency Response		Ireland
	WeardaleNET		United Kingdom
	Work Research Limited		Ireland