ALADDIN

Project aims and visions:

With the ALADDIN project ”A technology pLatform for the Assisted living of Dementia elDerly Individuals” which started in September 2009 Fraunhofer FOKUS participates in the new European program AAL  Ambient Assited Living. The objective of the AAL Joint Program is to enhance the quality of life of older people and strengthen the industrial base in Europe through the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).

The aim of the project ALADDIN is to utilise state-of-the-art in ICT in order to develop an integrated solution for the self-management of dementia patients, and develop innovative tools to support this procedure. This solution can be conceived as an integrated platform enabling distant monitoring of patient status and facilitating personalised intervention and adaptive care.

The project aims at:

1. Supporting maintaining health and functional capability, through the risk assessment and the early detection of deterioration symptoms of the patients and distress signs of their carers.
2. Providing the means for the self-care and the self-management of chronic conditions, through the development social networking as well as educational tools.
3. Providing added value to the individual, leveraging his/her quality of life, and supporting the moral and mental upgrade of both patients and carers.
4. Enhancing the home-as-care environment through the provision of user-friendly ICT tools for frequent, unobtrusive monitoring. 

Coordinator of the project is the National Technical University of Athens in Griechenland (NTUA).

More Information: www.aladdin-project.eu