ABSTRACT
The Strategic Implementation Plan of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP on AHA) proposed six Action Groups. After almost three years of activity, many achievements have been obtained through commitments or collaborative work of the Action Groups. However, they have often worked in silos and, consequently, synergies between Action Groups have been proposed to strengthen the triple win of the EIP on AHA. The paper presents the methodology and current status of the Task Force on EIP on AHA synergies. Synergies are in line with the Action Groups' new Renovated Action Plan (2016-2018) to ensure that their future objectives are coherent and fully connected. The outcomes and impact of synergies are using the Monitoring and Assessment Framework for the EIP on AHA (MAFEIP). Eight proposals for synergies have been approved by the Task Force: Five cross-cutting synergies which can be used for all current and future synergies as they consider overarching domains (appropriate polypharmacy, citizen empowerment, teaching and coaching on AHA, deployment of synergies to EU regions, Responsible Research and Innovation), and three cross-cutting synergies focussing on current Action Group activities (falls, frailty, integrated care and chronic respiratory diseases).
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Aging , Health Behavior , White People , Accidental Falls/prevention & control , Aged , Aged, 80 and over , Chronic Disease , Cooperative Behavior , Europe , Frail Elderly , Humans , Multiple Chronic Conditions , Organizational Innovation , Polypharmacy , Surveys and QuestionnairesABSTRACT
This paper describes the design and development of a system for cardio rehabilitation of patients that suffered a myocardial infarction. The proposed solution focuses on exercise prescriptions and the encouragement of healthy behaviors. The innovative strategy of the design takes into account health promotion models to provide safe, assistive exercise training sessions, personalized feedbacks, and educational contents.
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Expert Systems , Monitoring, Ambulatory/instrumentation , Myocardial Infarction/rehabilitation , Physical Therapy Modalities/instrumentation , Self Care/instrumentation , Telemedicine/instrumentation , Therapy, Computer-Assisted/instrumentation , Equipment Design , Equipment Failure Analysis , Humans , Reproducibility of Results , Sensitivity and Specificity , User-Computer InterfaceABSTRACT
Personalized health devices are the novel paradigm to reduce healthcare costs and to improve the quality of health services. At the same time, health interventions and promotion of self behaviors generate benefits to healthcare and allow citizens to be more involved in their own health management. This paper describes the process followed in HeartCycle project to design education and coaching services to promote self-behaviors in a closed loop monitoring system for patients with coronary heart diseases that suffered a myocardial infarction.