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EU funding (€4,044,217): Virtual Coaching Activities for Rehabilitation in Elderly Hor 28 Aug 2017 EU Research and Innovation programme "Horizon"
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Virtual Coaching Activities for Rehabilitation in Elderly
One out of six people in the European Union has a disability, usually caused by an acute episode or a chronic disease. Providing a suitable rehabilitation is the main issue for people as they age as it helps people to live independently and enhance their Quality of Life. However, as the rehabilitation period usually last some months, the continuity of care often is interrupted in the transition from the hospital to the home. Virtual Coaches can help these patients to proceed with a personalized rehabilitation that complies to age-related conditions, as the key technology for empowering patients through the enhancement of the adherence to the care plan and the risk prevention. The project “vCare” (Virtual Coaching Activities for Rehabilitation in Elderly) addresses two major shortcomings of the status quo: a participatory design driven by users’ needs and the personalization of the care pathways enabled by technology. In fact that rehabilitation is an ideal setting as “users” (physicians and patients) interact together for a “long” period into the clinic (from two weeks to two months): this is a good opportunity to embed into the knowledge of the system the clinical profiles and the pathways that will drive the behaviour of the virtual coach at home. Well-elaborated services for tele-rehabilitation of former EU projects, such as eWall or Miracolus Life, will be adapted. Therefore, the system will integrate a semantic layer (universAAL) including a reasoning engine that merges all patient-related and context information together. The advanced services of vCare will be deployed on a reference platform of MYSPHERA (FIWARE-based) and implemented in four reference sites, dealing with commonly impacted domains (neurological and cardiological). The results of vCare shall stimulate the European Healthcare & ICT sector for innovations in the field of integrated care. In sum, vCare will contribute to the EU goal to increase healthy life years of Europeans by two until 2020.
Funded Companies:
| Company name | Funding amount |
| Aarhus Universitet | €332,188 |
| AIT Austrian Institute OF Technology GmbH | €602,078 |
| Asociacion Instituto de Investigacion Sanitaria Biobizkaia | €0.00 |
| Casa Di Cura Igea S.p.A. | €385,824 |
| European Health Telematics Association | €213,125 |
| Eurosoft Development SA | €206,113 |
| FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik | €489,315 |
| Imaginary Srl | €233,438 |
| Innovation Sprint | €213,160 |
| Mysphera SL | €388,938 |
| Region Midtjylland | €0.00 |
| Servicio Vasco de Salud Osakidetza | €245,835 |
| Software Imagination And Vision Srl | €70,137 |
| Technische Universitaet Dresden | €497,145 |
| Universitatea de Medicina si Farmacie Carol Davila Din Bucuresti | €166,922 |
Source: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/769807
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