Overall outcomes/objectives of iStoppFalls are as follows:
Objective
1
iStoppFalls will help
to reduce fall risk, and thus improve quality of life for the elderly
living at home.
Objective
2
iStoppFalls will
offer improved fall prediction &
prevention measures, and thus provide better assessment of fall risks for the elderly living at home.
Objective
3
iStoppFalls will fit well inside basic daily behavioural
(continuous sampling & repeated exercise sessions at home) and samples a
lot of physiologic data by unobtrusive
sensing (Xbox/Kinect & SMM).
Objective
4
iStoppFalls will
provide self-learning solutions with
advanced reasoning, based on trend
analysis over time and an underlying knowledge based system.
Objective
5
iStoppFalls will
provide advanced HCI technologies adjusted to the
capabilities of elderly users (usability
& accessibility).
By meeting these
objectives, iStoppFalls helps to
tackle health & cost problems which will threaten European Societies in face
of a vastly increasing proportion of ageing citizens. This in turn will generate
impacts with substabtial benefits for the European Union to create feasible
settings securing a high quality of life and independent living for their
elderly citizens.
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Objectives
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Societal
or technological issues/needs
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Expected
impacts
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Reduced Falls &
Improved QoL
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Improved Health of
Citizens &
Reduced Costs for the Society
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Improved Quality of
Life & Reduced Health Care Costs
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Prediction & Prevention of Falls
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Promoting better
Fall Prediction, Prevention and Support
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Active & Healthy
Lifestyle,
Improved measures of Fall Prediction/Prevention
& Reduced Falls
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Unobtrusive Sensing
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Developing AAL
technologies
which fits well inside basic
daily behaviour of elder citizens
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Targeted support at
home & secure independent living
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Advanced Reasoning
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Optimized Support of
Community-Dwelling
Older Adults in the EU
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Proven concepts
for early detection
of ageing-related risks
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Usability & Accessibility
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Technology
Design with Humans-in-the-Loop
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Matching the
capabilities
of elderly users
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