Category:
Projects
Net4Age Ontology Terms:
acceptance
, aging
, building
, caregiver
, citizen
, computer
, computer science
, design
, device
, experience
, healthcare
, housing
, industry
, nurse
, patient
, safety
, security
, sensor
, technology
, usability
, wellbeing
Description:
Living lab project for testing gerontechnologies with older adults. A categorization of 150 companies active in this field is available (airtable dataset, accessible upon request).
Overview:
Silver & Home is a project of Gerontopole Friborg / Freiburg that aims at obtaining a better match between the products and services developed by companies and the needs of seniors that are looking for a better quality of life at home, in adapted apartments or in nursing homes. Silver & Home collaborates with companies that propose gerontotechnologies as products or services, with service providers in the field of aging and, last but not least, with seniors, the end-users of these products and services. Silver & Home is interested in different types of gerontechnologies.
Objectives:
Create a Showroom of Gerontechnologies; Promote user tests and deliver recommendations.
Initiatives:
Living Lab methodology supported validation and provided feedback of several ICT-based products/solutions. Enabled local ecosystem development.
Shortcomings:
The project has finished and no evolution seems to be planned.
Relevance:
3
Relevance Description:
Focus on Silver Economy validation and acceleration.
Quality:
3
Opinion:
Although future perspective is presented, the project enabled various technological solutions to be tested and implemented.
Recommended:
Yes
Overlap:
Yes
Overlap Detail:
Https://gerontopole-na.fr, https://grupossi.es/home-care-lab/, https://helgetunbolig.no
Sources:
https://www.silverhome.ch/
Keywords:
technology, living lab, recommendations, best practices, testing, gerontechnologie, older adults
Submitted By:
Leonardo Angelini
Email:
proseiro@gmail.com