New Ways in care communication
Remote CARE assist & care APP
the aal project for more care
Care about Care aims at empowering stakeholders in professional home care ecosystems. It will provide new ICT-enhanced ways of collaboration and information exchange to enable older people to age at home and to improve care workflows. Eight teams from Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland will develop and test a digital «Remote Care Assist» system and a «CareApp» in three countries aross europe, by the end of 2023, involving more than 700 participants.
Introducing the aal project for more care
Care about Care aims at empowering stakeholders in professional home care ecosystems. It will provide new ICT-enhanced ways of collaboration and information exchange to enable older people to age at home and to improve care workflows. In the next two years, pan european teams from Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland will develop and test two pilot platforms of Care about Care in three countries involving more than 700 participants.
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Remote CARE Assist
Remote Care Assist is planned as a service for professionally supporting and advising care workers and informal carers. It will enable to use care-expert knowledge form a distance using new technologies like «augmented reality glasses» and «smart phones». By establishing «care expert centers», we will initiate new care workflows that help to retain experienced staff and attract young people into care.
Care APP
The Care App is planned as a hub for information access and exchange aimed at care organizations, care workers, their clients and informal carers. In addition, interfaces to link up to health record systems of end user organisations are part of the Care App. The platform will also facilitate a wide variety of information exchange and services options.
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FH Wiener Neustadt (FHWN) is Lower Austria’s largest University of Applied Sciences. It focuses on practice-oriented education, international networking and innovative research work amongst others in the fields of e-Health and Active and Assisted Living (AAL). FH Wiener Neustadt is coordinating the project and leading the development of the Remote Care Assist service.
ilogs was founded in 2005. ilogs’ 45 highly educated employees develop software products in the health domain. With their product MOCCA, ilogs supports home care organizations in the electronic execution of their core processes, while their JAMES system targets the AAL market. In 2011, ilogs started to sell their products internationally and since then, they have won several prizes for their solutions (i.a. AAL Award).
EIS develops designs and realizes projects for a broad variety of clients in the fields of exhibition design, film production, graphic user interface, signaletics and product design. Their main areas of expertise include concept development, script writing, wireframing, object- and graphical user interface design. They are nationally and internationally awarded for their work.
This organization is Austria’s largest association providing social and health care services for more than 40 years. At present, the HWN employs more than 2,000 people, who provide care for about 8,760 persons/months in Lower Austria. Additionally, among other things, HWN offers mobile therapy (~3,100 clients/month), 24-hour emergency call center (~6,400 clients) & meals-on-wheels (~500,000 portion/year).
Senior Living Group is a large Belgian association that provides residential care and home care services through its brands Senior Living Group and OTV Home Care. For over 15 years, Senior Living Group (7,500 employees) has been providing professional care services to over 12,500 residents in more than 120 facilities spread throughout Belgium. OTV Home Care (800 employees) provides home care services for approximately 8,500 customers. It should be noted that Senior Living Group belongs to the Korian Group.
Founded in 1999, the Stëftung Hëllef Doheem (SHD) is the largest home care company in Luxembourg. With 2,000 employees, SHD offers home care throughout Luxembourg. SHD provides basic care, technical and palliative care in-line with the principles of evidence-based medicine and the European Nursing Pathways and closely collaborates with hospitals and physicians. Since 2013, SHD has embedded a paperless electronic health care record into their system for care workers to access from a smartphone or laptop.
DISTRAC nv and SALENS nv are both members of the DISTRAC GROUP. While SALENS is focusing on furniture & design, DISTRAC is active as a distributor of medical & AAL technologies in Benelux. With their excellent knowledge of the Benelux market and their business development and exploitation expertise, they will support C^C in business development and market preparation in Benelux.Funded by the European Commission and Partner States within the Active and Assisted Living Programme
