Silver & Home

Silver & Home

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.
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
Email: 
proseiro@gmail.com