Open platforms for active and healthy ageing (AHA) enable the connection of sensors and devices, ensuring seamless integration with the communication networks and provide resources and mechanisms for the management of these connected things and data. Platforms connect the individual user for example to health...
PlatformUptake.eu will attend the AgeingFit 2021 conference, the European event fostering innovation in the healthy ageing sector, and covering the fields of prevention allowing seniors to be autonomous and in good health as long as possible, and also the care of older and frail people...
The Centre for Ageing Better has launched a useful & valuable tool for companies and projects working on solutions, services and initiatives around (active and healthy) ageing: a free library showing positive and realistic images of older people to avoid portraying negative stereotypes. The images in...
The Smart & Healthy Ageing through People Engaging in Supportive Systems (SHAPES) Innovation Action intends to build, pilot and deploy a large-scale, EU-standardised open platform. The integration of a broad range of technological, organisational, clinical, educational and societal solutions seeks to facilitate long-term healthy and...
GATEKEEPER, a European Multi Centric Large-Scale Pilot on Smart Living Environments, has launched an open call to support the development of Artificial Intelligence & Big Data applications, tools or components to help ensure healthier independent lives for older adults. The main objective of GATEKEEPER is enabling...
AAL, the European Active Assisted Living Programme, has published its Call for project proposals for the year 2021. The aim of the Call is to support innovative, transnational and multi-disciplinary collaborative projects. The aim of the AAL Programme is to improve the autonomy, participation in social...
The COVID-19 global health emergency has dramatically underlined the importance of harnessing the full power of digital technologies to strengthen health systems and programmes. The Digital Health Platform Handbook, a new resource by ITU (International Telecommunication Union) and WHO (World Health Organization), aims to assist...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has developed the assistive technology capacity assessment (ATA-C) tool, a system-level tool to evaluate a country’s capacity to finance, regulate, procure and provide assistive technology. The ATA-C tool enables countries to better understand its current status and identify key actions to...
PlatformUptake.eu has set up a methodology for monitoring evaluating the uptake and other success indicators of existing platforms in the Active and Healthy Ageing (AHA) domain. This methodology will allow the measurement of the set of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that have been defined in...
universAAL IoT, the open source platform that enables interoperability and rapid development of innovative IoT solutions, defines a platform as anything that can be used to work or build on top of it. In case of software platforms, they offer a set of services that...