Demographic ageing is without a doubt amongst the biggest challenges European health care systems face nowadays, putting pressure on the healthcare sector like never before.
Longevity comes with a series of challenges and opportunities for EU societies. Both the challenges (greater prevalence of chronic diseases, the globally rising shortage of healthcare workers, the financial discrepancies of care and the lower quality of life) and the opportunities (intergenerational connection, free time for meaningful activities, accumulated experience and wealth), all underline the necessity for people in third age living in community (either autonomous or in need of care) to migrate towards a more person-centered and coordinated model of care that supports the optimization of their abilities and capacities.
To this direction, EU policies reflect a movement away from seeing the later years as a time of decline and dependency, towards the empowerment and participation of older people in all aspects of social and economic life, supporting longevity and active ageing.
However, this is contrasted with exponential advances in innovative technological developments. Thanks to digital innovations today’s healthcare and caregiving services have tools at their disposal to improve prevention, diagnosis, treatment, monitoring and management of health-related issues and to monitor and manage lifestyle-habits that impact health.
Assisted living technologies have been shown to have great potential in fostering independent living, improving mental and physical health, and increasing quality of life. The need for these systems arises from the desire to enable patients and seniors to live independently in their homes without relying heavily on their families or caretakers. At the same time, they can also reduce caregiver burden, which can lead to more targeted and better quality care.
The primary interest of FRONTIDA ZOIS as end user partner in AMBITIOUS project, is the opportunity to use the platform in the context of a coherent service delivery system, combined with the usual face to face services provided by our personnel. The effectiveness of the AMBITIOUS platform for our organization depends on its intrinsic usability as a functional element of the care service program and finally on the friendliness of the system and its targeted adaptation to the micro-user environment.
For FRONTIDA ZOIS, the basic needs that the AMBITIOUS platform comes to cover, mainly relates to:
Older beneficiaries to be able to get connected with their caregivers more directly and under the continuous flow of real time health data
Older beneficiaries to help them maintain independence in their daily lives as well as feel more safe
Caregivers to get the opportunity to support more efficiently their caregiving time and tasks,
Our services to better organized and distributed with the assistance of the AMBITIOUS intelligent living system
