MOOC on Handling lower back pain
Category: User Experience
The education of chronic pain patients and their relatives on self-management increases their self-confidence and improves their possibility to monitor, control and cope with the disease. This improves the patient's quality of life and reduces the physical and psychological symptoms. The main goal of this MOOC is to improve knowledge and skills of working adults regarding evidence based strategies that can help individuals manage their low back pain in all personal spheres (work, family, leisure etc.). But this course will show all the people that live with low-back pain and have a sedentary lifestyle or have arduous jobs how to self-manage their pain by adopting healthy behavior strategies. Learners will become more aware of their health and well-being, both at work and in the personal sphere.
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The daily working environments in which informal carers and direct care workers assist stroke survivors are highly demanding. Carers carry out most essential tasks, usually with high physical and emotional burden and with little specific training. The most commonly experienced challenge among carers is finding sufficient information on caring for a stroke survivor. This course will provide timely, reliable, and sound information and training to informal carers and direct care workers that will help enhance service provision and improve the stroke survivors' and carers' experiences and well-being.
Read MoreMultimorbidity care model, JA-CHRODIS
Category: Taxonomies
An expert consensus meeting was held to develop a framework for care of multimorbid patients that can be applied across Europe, within a project funded by the European Union; the Joint Action on Chronic Diseases and Promoting Healthy Ageing across the Life Cycle (JA-CHRODIS). Sixteen components across five domains were identified (Delivery of Care; Decision Support; Self Management Support; Information Systems and Technology; and Social and Community Resources). The description and aim of each component are described in these guidelines, along with a summary of key characteristics and relevance to multimorbid patients.
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The Agile Ageing Alliance (AAA) aims to demonstrate that through innovations in technology, business and service models, our homes and multigenerational neighbourhoods of the future can be reimagined to boost health and wellbeing, and promote independent living, leading to a reduction in the financial burden on Citizens and State. AAA asked expert stakeholders what, in an ideal world, our homes and neighbourhoods could look like in 10 to 20 years, and what steps must be taken now to disrupt the status quo and make their vision a reality?Neighbourhoods of the Future captures the thoughts and predictions of a veritable `who's who' of distinguished experts and emerging thought leaders.
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NESTORE is an innovative personalised coaching system to support healthy ageing. It generates motivation to take care of your health and suggests nutrition, physical activities and social interactions to preserve your wellbeing. It relies on smart bracelets and voice assistants.
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Nostalgia Bits aims to be one of the first examples of what we call an ?ugmented community?service. Augmented communities combine the benefits of interest-bound communities (typically supported by on-line services) with the benefits of geographically-bound communities (which lead to rich, face-to-face interactions).
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They intend to be a quality alternative to face-to-face classes for people who, for some reason, have to stay at home, or prefer to stay at home
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Over the age of 65 on issues such as healthy and active aging, preventing dementia, elder rights, institutional care, and municipal services, as well as coordinating and producing projects for individuals over the age of 65.
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PHArA-ON project will maximise the use of advanced services, devices, and tools from IoT, artificial intelligence and robotics to cloud computing, smart wearables, Big Data and intelligent analytics. Its aim is to create a set of integrated and highly customisable interoperable open platforms. Platform interoperability will be implemented within Pharaon ecosystems and platforms, which will be validated in two stages: pre-validation and large-scale pilots (LSPs) conducted at pilot sites in Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia and Spain (Murcia and Andalusia).
Read MorePortuguese Red Cross Senior Academy
Category: User Experience
It intends to contribute to the improvement of the quality of life of the most senior citizens, through the enrichment of their free time, namely in the academic, cultural, social and sporting areas.
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