Project: Smart Assisted Living involving Informal careGivers

Acronym	SALIG++ (Reference Number: aal-2012-5-232)
Duration	01/06/2013 - 01/06/2016
Project Topic	Demographic changes, rising costs and new family structures increase demands for new care solutions where self-care and informal caregivers play a key role. To support informal caregivers it is essential to reduce the impact of physical distance, increase informal caregivers presence in the daily life of elderly and to support cooperation between formal and informal carers. SALIG++ addresses these challenges and goes beyond state of the art to enhance presence, awareness and complementarity. It supports self-care by elderly and bidirectional awareness and interaction between elderly and informal carers in collaboration with formal care to prolong the well-being of elderly in living at home. Primary benefits are that carers become fully informed about the status of the elderly, her medical status as well as her home and devices. In addition, SALIG++ brings elderly and carers closer to each other by supporting continuous interaction. Key technologies are 3D capturing and visualization combined with sensing, actuation and identification, e.g. remote presence and awareness. They are introduced in the home as self-managed extensions to existing home audio visual equipment to avoid new intrusive physical apparatus, such as mobile robots. SALIG++ uses multimodal interaction and places no new requirements on the elderly to handle new technical devices. The SALIG++ services will be provided by device producers, vendors and technology providers as well as service providers. The SALIG++ product will be sold as individual licenses to elderly and informal caregivers, or as group licenses to care funders and formal caregivers. To achieve high user involvement, pilot environments are planned in the Netherlands, Sweden and Spain. The solution is designed in three iterations and evaluated by elderly as well as informal and formal caregivers. The user feedback is used to refine and adapt the SALIG++ requirements and to determine marketing strategy in different member states.
Network	AAL
Call	Call 5 – Daily Life Activities

Project partner

Number	Name	Role	Country
	Actimage		Luxembourg
	Almende		Netherlands
	Delft University of Technology		Netherlands
	Divitel BV		Netherlands
	Fundación para la eSalud		Spain
	HI Iberia		Spain
	PIAP		Poland
	Stockholm County Council		Sweden
	Stockholm University		Sweden
	TP Vision NL		Netherlands