ICT4Life will conduct breakthrough research and radical innovation and will implement the ICT4Life Platform. Such a platform will deliver a series of innovative services to patients affected by Parkinson, Alzheimer and other dementias but also to health professionals and formal and informal carers. All solutions will be developed following a user-centred methodology and tested in real life scenarios.

Alejandro Sánchez-Rico de las Heras, Director of eHealth at Artica Telemedicina and Project Coordinator stated “There are only few initiatives in the past that, employing user-friendly ICT tools,dealt so close with people with cognitive impairments at an early stage. However, most of the solutions proposed up to now for monitoring the older people at home rely on the detection of a limited set of risks, sending an alert only when a recognizable problem is identified”. Moreover, he added: “ICT4Life wants to shift from a reactive service delivery to a real proactive, preventive and patient-centred model of integrated care by enabling users’ education and empowerment”.