IBH Living Lab "Active & Assisted Living" Management

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The IBH Living Lab AAL is a network of universities, social services and technology providers in the international Lake Constance region, which helps people with impaired social and economic participation, through digital innovations in real-life laboratories, which serve to maintain and increase the quality of life. Being able to lead a self-determined life and staying in your own home as long as possib0le is particularly valuable to 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" starts. 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 of strategies to find out how AAL products can best be made accessible to a wide public.

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