Project: Active Living for Alzheimer Patients

Acronym	ALFA (Reference Number: aal-2010-3-022)
Duration	01/09/2011 - 01/09/2015
Project Topic	The number of people with dementia will grow rapidly in the next decades. People with dementia and their informal carers have special needs in order to live a dignified and happy life. Because of their cognitive and physical challenges it becomes increasingly difficult for them to direct their own daily activities. What people with dementia need from ICT is help in regaining control over their life and choices. It should preserve and even restore some cognitive functions. Then ICT should recognise and identify changes in their behaviour patterns that would indicate an improvement or relapse of their condition, so early intervention is possible. And it should provide all these functions in peoples own homes as well as in care facilities. The ALFA project is targeted at patients in early stages of dementia and their informal carers. It also supports the professional carer in organising support. The technology in project ALFA will consist of combining and refining different kinds of wireless monitoring and communication technology, like audiovisual communication and projection, sensor array's, identification and location technology, movement analysis algorithms, fall detection working together with a web application that supports people with dementia in making daily choices in activities the want or need to perform. The business model is aimed at substantial cost reduction and a dramatically improved quality of life. If rapid deterioration and depression is prevented or slowed down it will save costs for medication and treatment. Other trials with small scaled residential care for patients with dementia have already proven this. Our product will improve this cost saving even further. Substantial savings are to be expected in preventing or postponing the need to move people to residential care.
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Network	AAL
Call	Call 3 – Self-serve Society

Project partner

Number	Name	Role	Country
	Alzheimer Nederland		Netherlands
	Consorzio T3LAB		Italy
	EXEL		Italy
	Iniciativas Comunitarias de Desarrollo Estepa - Sierra Sur S.A.		Spain
	Mondragon Unibertsitatea		Spain
	Noemalife		Italy
	Ribes Ricerche e Formazione Srl		Italy
	VU University Amsterdam		Netherlands
	Woonzorg Unie Veluwe		Netherlands