Project: Empowering communities to care by combining smart technology and personal help to maintain mobility

Acronym	CiM (Reference Number: aal-2014-1-021)
Duration	01/10/2015 - 01/10/2018
Project Topic	Europe faces the problem of not only having an aging population, but also a decreasing group of formal carers. At the same time, restrictive financial policies are increasing the burden of care on families and other informal care givers. CareInMovement (CiM) innovates the way we think about care of the elderly by involving all stakeholders and additionally empowering volunteers to care with the use of advanced ICT: we involve formal and informal care givers as well as the elderly persons themselves and we give incentives to each group, to make a contribution towards better quality of life for all parties involved. This includes a “care time banking” system for informal care givers, better synchronisation between formal and informal carers; and training as well as motivational incentives for elderly people suffering from diseases of the circulatory or the musculoskeletal system and their informal carers. To these people, we offer services and applications to motivate them to do more exercise and thus, improve their general health. A total of over 500 subjects representing all stakeholders in three countries (Austria, Italy and Poland) will be involved as lead users and testers of the proposed care environment with its mobile services. The consortium comprises three formal care giving organisations, three research organisations and four industrial partners willing to roll out services based on CareInMovement. The value proposition of the target system is to keep elderly people fit for longer, to reduce the stress on care giving institutions by delegating some care tasks to informal carers, and to offer them the possibility of earning care credits which they can use to get care for their relatives or to save the credits for themselves. By using ICT that addresses the supply and the demand side of the care market, we improve the signalling infrastructure and the openness of this market.
Network	AAL 2
Call	Call 2014 – Care for the future

Project partner

Number	Name	Role	Country
	ALDIA Cooperativa Sociale – Società Cooperativa		Italy
	bit media e-solutions GmbH		Austria
	bit Polska Sp. z o.o.		Poland
	ByElement GmbH		Switzerland
	CTC Sp. z o.o.		Poland
	Eichenberger-Szenografie		Switzerland
	Hilfswerk Salzburg gGmbH		Austria
	iLogs, Mobile Software GmbH		Austria
	Niepubliczny Zakład Opieki Zdrowotnej Prima Med		Poland
	Paris-Lodron-Universität Salzburg		Austria
	Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft mbH		Austria
	Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien		Austria