Assisted Living

The aim of the Assisted Living Innovation Platform is to make significant advances in the technology needed to enable people who suffer from chronic long term conditions to live independently.

Given the predicted increase in the numbers of people living with such conditions, current care models are unsustainable, and major changes will be needed.

The platform will also be able to consider the requirements of well being, and address the societal challenges raised by health conditions that require a preventative approach.

What is planned?

A wide range of activity has been proposed, including fairly conventional short term and long term Research and Development and because an Innovation Platform can take on a wide brief we are also proposing work streams in:

• standards,
• user centred design,
• knowledge transfer,
• business modelling, and
• working towards a future technology demonstrator "suite".

How was it decided which activity to undertake?   

A series of open workshops and seminars were held, including a major technology roadmapping event in November 2006. A priority setting workshop was held in Birmingham in July 2007.

Latest developments - July 2008

The next activity in the assisted living innovation platform is looking at the issues around digital communications (fixed and mobile telecommunications and broadcast) technologies and their implications for new assisted living devices and services.

For more information on this download the publication A Smart Care Distributed Environment from the related documents on the left.