Existing flexible ICT solutions could assist elderly users with cognitive impairment in organising, carrying out and completing everyday tasks and constitute essential factors for continuing to be and A1:K20 independent. IN LIFE will offer all-around, personalised, multi-faceted existing ICT solutions and services addressing diverse daily activities (eating, physical activity, commuting, mental stimulation, communication, social interaction, etc.) to users with cognitive impairment living in their own home or in sheltered homes, as well as to their formal and informal carers.
Projects
Research
The Matia Gerontological Institute is the unit of Matia Fundazioa dedicated to creating applicable knowledge and its dissemination in society (R+D+i). A unique centre in the Basque Country, with 10 years of experience.
The objective of this Institute is to collaborate in the definition of new models of prevention, care and health, as well as in providing support during the changes associated with ageing and the development of business projects that add value and quality to ageing, creating new solutions based on the knowledge of each of the members of the foundation.
Year: 2015 to 2017 - Status: Finished
Professionals: Erkuden Aldaz, Álvaro García Soler, Nerea GaldonaProfesionales Matia Instituto Gerontológico
Year: 2015 - Status: Finished
From the Department of Employment and Social Policy of the Basque Government, aware of the important transformation that the society is experiencing as a result of the ageing process, with the collaboration of the Matia Institute technical team, the Strategy for Active Ageing has been developed f
Year: 2015 - Status: Finished
FRAILTEK: New strategies for the development of tools and products aimed at the identification and assessment of frailty syndrome.
Year: 2014 to 2015 - Status: Finished
Caring for people is an issue that, despite being of great importance, is currently not given as much visibility as we would like.
Year: 2014 to 2016 - Status: In progress
RAPP is a 3-year research project (2013-2016) funded by the European Commission through its FP7 programme. The RAPP project will provide an open source software platform to support the creation and delivery of robotic applications.
Year: 2014 to 2016 - Status: Finished
The increasing demand of leisure and cultural services by the segment of people with functional diversity requires tourist destinations to be prepared to provide this part of society with a service with guaranteed quality.
Year: 2014 to 2016 - Status: Finished
Professionals: Erkuden Aldaz
The implementation of Person-Centred Care Model (PCC Model) in gerontology centres requires intense training by the professionals involved in their care.
Year: 2014 to 2016 - Status: Finished
The existing model of care currently does not meet the life expectations of most seniors. It does not take their interests, desires, rights or capabilities into account and does not address their diversity or preferences.
Year: 2013 to 2024 - Status: In progress
Professionals: Carlota Arroyo, Iraia Aguirregabiria, Itziar Gurrutxaga , Mertxe Sánchez, Nerea Galdona
Family care for people in situations of dependency is a major social challenge and a problem that is on the rise, as it generates a significant and progressive increase of the responsibility of the family to provide support and assistance, day after day, for a typically very long period, to a rel
Year: 2013 to 2015 - Status: Finished
In the coming years, the Basque society, like the rest of Spain and Europe, faces several challenges related to geriatric care provided to the elderly, because the current model geriatric care is both an economically and socially unsustainable residential model: