Innovative Solutions and Environments to Support Active and Healthy Ageing

María Teresa Arredondo1

  • 1Universidad Politecnica de Madrid

Details

10:30 - 10:40 | Thu 16 Feb | Salon 6-7 | ThA2.3

Session: Thu2.1: IoT Ecosystems and Smart Living Environments for Ageing Well

Abstract

R&D projects in the eHealth area, since the last 10 years, have been seeking to provide more meaningful and relevant answers to the current challenges of modern societies. Starting from personal health systems sector, it will be shown how technologies and innovations have evolved from projects were the aim was to create a communication and management loop between patients and professionals for a specific disease, to solutions that anticipate the occurrence of undesired health problems for people with multiple conditions, trying to keep people active, healthy and socially useful in their living environments.