Project: Indoor and outdoor NITICSplus solution for dementia challenges

Acronym	IONIS (Reference Number: aal-call-2016-074)
Duration	01/10/2017 - 01/04/2020
Project Topic	IONIS brings together technologies and services to build a user-centred modular ICT-based platform that offers a wide range of specific solutions to problems and difficulties that people with dementia are confronting. The IONIS solution can compensate in an adaptive way for mild to moderate dementia associated deficiencies such as memory problems and cognitive decline. By providing continuous support to people with dementia when they are at home (indoor area) or outside (outdoor area), the IONIS system improves their independence, significantly enhance their individual sense of confidence, security and safety and increase their wellbeing and the one of their communities. Moreover, caregivers will be able to benefit from the IONIS platform capabilities and to exploit the gathered health information (health monitoring and alerting, mobility pattern indicative of disease progression and other age related problems, sleep quality supervision) in order to intervene adequately and timely. Medical personnel can prescribe suited treatment when correlating the caretaker‘s medical records with level of exercise, quality of sleep, amount of wandering etc. Also, the appropriate treatment, exercise, physical therapy, relaying on this data, will help the medical personal to accurately implement an individual therapy. IONIS also involves service providers (social services, insurance companies, rehabilitation centers) who can obtain valuable information regarding behavioral patterns and needs of people with dementia and their caregivers in order to improve the services they offer to them, which will reduce stress and burden for informal caregivers through timely alerts issued by the IONIS platform or triggered by users. Extensive trials and piloting involving significant number of end-users will be performed to both develop and validate the IONIS solution. The envisaged IONIS business model will pave the route to quick and efficient market exploitation for the IONIS platform.
Network	AAL 2
Call	Call 2016 - Living well with dementia

Project partner

Number	Name	Role	Country
	Alzheimer Slovenia - Spominčica		Slovenia
	Bay Zoltán Nonprofit Ltd. for Applied Research		Hungary
	Centrul IT pentru Stiinta si Tehnologie		Romania
	Department of Geriatrics Warsaw		Poland
	ECLEXYS Sagl		Switzerland
	IZRIIS Institute for research, intergenerational relations, gerontology and ICT		Slovenia
	Őszi Napsugár Otthon		Hungary
	Softic Ltd.		Hungary
	University of Bucharest		Romania
	Warsaw University of Technology		Poland