IBH Living Lab "Active & Assisted Living"

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This individual project creates the framework conditions for AAL projects in the Lake Constance area. Theoretical and methodological foundations are created, test apartments created, test persons found, technology and services systematised and preconditions for their implementation displayed, business models are developed and options for knowledge transfer demonstrated. Information is made available to the public. Being able to lead a self-determined life and staying in your own home as long as possible 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 up of strategies, to find out how AAL products can best be made accessible to a wide public. The “Removing AAL barriers” sub-project is particularly concerned with the removal of individual, societal, social or economic concerns and barriers to the use of such technologies.

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