“Continuous monitoring, round the clock emergency services, personalized care and easy-to-use technology: these are the hallmarks of the Caalyx solution. In the wake of a successful development phase, two follow-up projects have now begun to drive the technology another step closer towards a marketable product.
“In our ageing societies, it is essential that we provide solutions to increase the time that people can stay in their familiar surroundings before having to go to a care facility,” says Manuel Escriche of Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo in Spain. Escriche is the coordinator of Caalyx, a € 3 million ambient assisted living project that received funding of € 1.85m under the umbrella of the 6th Research Framework Programme of the EU. Caalyx (“Complete Ambient Assisted Living Experiment”) involved partners from Germany, Italy, Ireland, the UK and Portugal.”
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HealthTech Wire, 9 December 2009
