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The Health at Home project (H@H) aims at solving societal problems related to the provision of healthcare services for elderly citizens affected by Chronic Hearth Failure (CHF), providing them with wearable sensor devices for monitoring of pathophysiological cardiovascular and respiratory parameters and, at the same time, enabling the medical staff to monitor their situations at distance and take action in case of necessity by the involvement of the public and private health organizations. The project proposes ICT solutions in order to reinforce social prevention and management of CHF diseases affecting elderly people.

The project started its activities on 1 February 2009 partly co-funded by the Ambient Assisted Living Programme (AAL) http://www.aal-europe.eu/

The AAL Programme is a joint research and development (R&D) funding activity by actual 20 European Member States and 3 Associated States
he overall objective of the programme 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 AAL Joint Programme has the following specific aims:

  • Foster the emergence of innovative ICT-based products, services and systems for ageing well at home, in the community, and at work, thus improving the quality of life, autonomy, participation in social life, skills and employability of older people and reducing the costs of health and social care. This may be based e.g. on innovative utilisation of ICT, new ways of customer interaction or new types of value chains for independent living services. The results of the AAL Joint Programme could also be used by other groups of people, namely the people with disabilities.
  • Create critical mass of research, development and innovation at EU level in the areas of technologies and services for ageing well in the information society, including the establishment of a favourable environment for participation by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
  • Improve conditions for industrial exploitation of research results by providing a coherent European framework for developing common approaches, including common minimal standards, and facilitating the localisation and adaptation of common solutions which are compatible with varying social preferences and regulatory aspects at national or regional level across Europe.