AAL (Active and Assisted Living) Joint Programme

AAL (Active and Assisted Living) Joint Programme

Divinyi ÁgnesAAL NCP

The challenge

Societal challenge:• ageing demographics • declining health of older adults • increased urbanisation and migration that result

increasingly in older people living alone↓

increased need for professional and informal carerising care costs

shortfall of healthcare workers (doctors and nurses)

2023. ápr. 19. 2www.nih.gov.hu

The challenge

Population pyramids, EU-28 2001 and 2013 2013 and 2080


older adults wish to maintain their • autonomy and self-management • health and wellbeing• participation in social life, • skills, and employability


AAL programme

Ambient Assisted Living Joint Programme (2008-2013)6 THEMATIC CALLS • Call 1 - Chronic Conditions (prevention, management)• Call 2 - Social Interaction• Call 3 - “Self-Serve Society” (preserve and enhance

independence)• Call 4 – Mobility (orientation and navigation)• Call 5 - Daily Life at Home (continue managing daily life

activities)• Call 6 - Occupation in Life (professional, entrepreneurial,

volunteering, knowledge sharing, counselling)

Active and Assisted Living Joint Programme (2014-2020)• Call2014 – Care for the Future


AAL programme

Funded projects (Call 1-6): 152Type of ranked organisations (Call 1-6)


45%

9%17%

12%

17%SME

LAE

RES

UNI

USER

AAL Call 1-6 (Hungary)


AAL Call 1-6 (23 countries)


AAL Call 2014 – Care for the future

Applied research, development and testing of ICT-based, economically and socially viable solutions (products, systems or services) in real life situations which enable and support sustainable care models for older adults: • reconcile increased demand with limited resources;• increase and facilitate the supply of formal and

informal care for older adults;• reduce the demand for care through prevention and

self-management;• support the shift towards better care at home and in

the community.2023. ápr. 19. 9www.nih.gov.hu

AAL Call 2014 – Care for the future• common funding activity of 19 member states of

the AAL Association, with the financial support of the European Commission (≈ 20-20 M€)

• European dimension (application of reseults)• consortium members from at least 3 different

AAL Partner States• user centred approach (end-user participation)• industry involvement to be 50% or more (in

person months) - at least one SME/project• central submission and evaluation (3 experts /

project, panel, reconfiguration)


AAL Call 2014 – Care for the future


Total Hungarian

Submitted proposals 97 25 (26% of total submitted)

Above threshold proposals 56 (58% of total submitted)

12 (48% of HU submitted)

Selected proposals (plan) 20 (20% of total submitted)

4 (16 % of HU submitted and

20 % of total selected)

End-user involvement

• Primary end-users are users of the new product or service (old people)

• Secondary end-users are in direct contact with primary end-users (family members, neighbours, friends, carers, care organisations)

• Tertiary end-users are private or public organisations that are not directly in contact with AAL products and services, but who contribute in organizing, paying or enabling them (service organizers, social security systems, insurance companies)


End-user involvement

• Planning, development and testing based on user needs and wishes!

• User friendly, personalised solutions (the technology involved is often new, complex and unfamiliar to the end-users – explain!)

• Motivation to participate, user acceptance • "exit" strategy (end-users may become

accustomed to the special attention and services they receive during the project)

• Business strategy: right target group (who uses ≠ who pays)


Easy to use …


AAL programme

Ethical issues: • privacy, • control of personal data, • confidentiality, • autonomy and dignity• informed consent: all end-users who participate

in an AAL project, through interviews, observations and/or testing of prototypes, should know what they are signing up for and how they can withdraw from the project at any time.


Support for applicants

• Online partner search facility (profiles, project ideas)

• Infoday in Brussels, national infodays• Consortium building event in Brussels• AAL Forum (exhibition, conference, workshop)• Guidelines (user involvement, investment)• On-demand business coaching (develop

presentation, business plan)• Methodology workshop (business development)• Online portal (public and private funding, solutions,

research groups, events, statistics)


AAL Forum


AAL2Business support action


Challenges

• Smart homes and support services for independent living is a market which has an enormous potential and is just appearing now.

• This market is already being explored by big technology players like Apple, Google, Philips. AAL projects to develop should probably look carefully for the niches aiming at specific groups of older adults that have at the same time market potential.


AAL projects with Hungarian participation

Safe Private Homes for Elderly Persons (CARE)• automated recognition and alarming of critical situations (like

falls) using a stereo visual sensor (which detects only motion) and real-time processing while preserving the privacy

• the technology is used to monitor, analyse, and interpret an elderly's behaviour at home and to automatically send an alarm signal in case of critical situations (e.g. a person falls, or becomes immobilised for a long time, or starts hysteric movements). This sensor technology is integrated in a monitoring system for private homes and nursing homes, including a communication interface and a control station.

Hungarian member: Budapest University of Technology and Economy



Connected Care for Elderly Persons Suffering from Dementia (CCE)The system consists of following hardware and software components:• Philips Net TV that provides a user interface for a digital

corkboard application (reminding for everyday activities)• A set of sensors that monitor the behaviour and the activities of

the assisted person, warning in case of unusual behaviour• A medication dispenser, MemoTray with RFID• A dementia diary that documents daily activities for the assisted

person• A middleware platform that integrates all of the dataHungarian members: Innomed Zrt., Hungarian Association for Home Care and Hospice, Budapest University of Technology and Economy



Maintaining and Measuring Mental Wellness (M3W) • Develop a mental wellness toolset for self usage,

including online computer games, tailored for various kinds of elderly people.

• Measure and visualize mental changes, tendencies in an entertaining way.

• Give indications (warnings, alarms, reports) to the elderly persons, their relatives, friends or carers.

Hungarian members: Semmelweis Univerity, Budapest University of Technology and Economy, Gaudiopolis Szeretetház, Silver Publishing Ltd.



Personal Life Assistant to Enhance the Social Life of Seniors (PaeLife) • it mediates and facilitates the interaction of senior citizens

through technological devices (computers, tablets, smartphones)

• with AALFred, social networks, email and video calls can be easily accessed, interesting information such as news and access to nearby services is delivered in an easy and integrated way

• multimodal (speech, touch, gesture) human computer interaction

• Speech Recognition (SR) systems specially adapted to the elderly

Hungarian members: Bay Zoltán Nonprofit Ltd.,Budapest University of Technology and Economy


Cooperation with AAL

Joint Programming: to pool national research efforts in order to tackle common European challenges more effectively in a few key areas (10) participation of member states in each initiative is based on voluntary commitments leading to partnerships composed of variable groups of countries

Joint Programming Initiative - A Healthy Diet for a Healthy Life (JPI HDHL) :• Telecare.• Monitoring Physical Activity.• Monitoring Older Adults Diet requirements.


Cooperation with AAL

Joint Programming Initiative – More Years Better Lives - The Potentials and Challenges of Demographic Change “Technology for Living”:• Securing wellbeing and healthy ageing.• Developing appropriate technologies: creating

technology based on clinical trials; e-Medicine; Mobility; Smart Cities/Houses; ICT’s for communications; virtual reality environments for rehabilitation.

• Improving living conditions.• Sustainable welfare.


Thank you for your attention!

Ágnes Divinyi AAL NCP

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AAL (Active and Assisted Living) Joint Programme