OLDES

The number of elderly in the EU is dramatically increasing and the related burden in term of public expense getting higher and higher - these are the two main reasons motivating the OLDES project. Today more and more old people are living alone, in many cases with no families helping them nor enough money to afford private carers. Starting from these facts, OLDES will plan and implement an innovative technological platform, with low cost and easy use able to provide a wider range of services to an higher number of elderly. The platform will be tested by 100 elderly people in Italy (10 of them with heart disease) and a sample of diabetics in Prague. Mr. Paruolo, Bologna Municipality's Deputy Mayor for Health, firmly wanted this project; he believes that the welfare model has to be renewed quickly, making the most of new technologies and high tech devices to offer a wider number of old people tele-medicine, tele-assistance, tele-entertainment and tele-company services. Consequently, the number of people assisted by public services will be enlarged, even if public resources are decreasing whilst the number of old people increases.

OLDES objectives are:

• To develop a cost optimized technical solution;
• To define the profile of "elderly people";
• To define a standardized procedure for tele-care interaction;
• To develop a programme for results evaluation.

For further information, please visit:
http://www.oldes.eu

Project co-ordinator:
Ente per le Nuove Tecnologie, l'Energia e l'Ambiente (ENEA)

Partners:

• Cup 2000 SPA (IT)
• Alma Mater Studiorum - Universita di Bologna (IT)
• The University of Newcastle Upon Tyne (UK)
• Centre d'Excellence en Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication (B)
• Ceske Vysoke Uceni Technicke v Praze (CZ)
• Ink Media Inc (Canada)
• Agentscape AG (Germany)
• Comune di Bologna (IT)
• Azienda Unita Sanitaria Locale di Bologna (IT)
• Univerzita Karlova v Praze (CZ)

Timetable: from 01/01/2007 - to 31/12/2009

Total cost: € 3.647.844

EC funding: € 2.500.000

Instrument: STREP

Project Identifier: IST-2005-045282

Source: FP6 eHealth Portfolio of Projects