Home Health Living Lab

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This individual project is concerned with the integration of mobile devices to record vital functions (e.g. pulse, heart signals, blood oxygen saturation, breathing, muscular movement, temperature, falls and sleep behaviour) in apartments of the IBH Living Lab AAL. Older people will therefore be facilitated in increasing their sleep quality, lowering stress and improving their adherence to rehabilitation. Being able to lead a self-determined life and staying in your own home as long as possible is particularly valuable for people who require support. Everyday tasks can quickly become a challenge with increasing age and the growing need for support, despite the help of professional and informal care persons (such as family members). It is at this point that the IBH living lab "active and assisted living" intervenes. The objective of this research and innovation network, made up of a number of universities and practice partners from the Lake Constance region, is to develop "assistance systems for self-determined living” and to implement and test them under real conditions. In the IBH-Living lab, people who are starting to or already need support use various AAL products. In return, they and their family members or carers in the care home report on their experience with the products. These experiences are then included, for example, in the further development of products and services in the field of AAL or the building up of strategies, in order to find out how AAL products can best be made accessible to a wide public. In this context, the “home health living lab” sub-project has set itself the objective of developing guidelines for sustainable home-health services.

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