Project Objectives

USEFIL main motivation: support independent living of the elderly citizens as long as possible in their home by designing, developing and deploying widely adopted systems.  

USEFIL Objectives  

Ease of use :

·    Develop a simplified approach using ease of use unobtrusive low cost ICT solutions.

·     Provide services more adaptable to individual needs and preferences (personalization)

·    Promote practicality developing systems and services that their installation will not require retrofitting of the residence of the elderly people , no new skills.

Usefulness (for end users and main stakeholders):

·    Support the elderly in maintaining their social activities

·    Support Mobility

·    Provide a new health care paradigm redefining the way of treating elderly people and managing health care services

·    Promote cost and time effective health care solutions for end users and carers:

•       Low cost off the self systems,

•       open source platforms,

•       facilitate worldwide developers to generate applications for the ageing population reducing the cost the Governments have to spend for generating ICT services for the ageing community