Presentation given by Laura Coll from the UAB Institut de l'Envelliment in the framework of the Emergence Forum Barcelona Biocat organized the Barcelona Emergence Forum (April 10-11th, 2014, Congress Palace, Montjuïc) supported by the TRANSBIO SUDOE, a translational cooperation project dedicated to innovation in life sciences in South-West Europe. The Barcelona Emergence Forum contributed to bringing together Academics, Companies, Investment Entities, Technology Platforms and Technology Transfer Offices from Spain, France and Portugal to set up collaborative projects on Human Health & Agro-food Innovation. More information at: http://www.b2match.eu/emergenceforum2014

1. PREVENTING AGE-RELATED DISABILITY:
COMPLEX INTERVENTIONS AND ICT
Laura Coll-Planas
Responsible of the health research area
Emergence Forum, Barcelona. 11th April 2014.

2. AIM: Preventing age-related disability
Physical function
E-health / ICT
Mental function
Mobility and falls
Gait and balance
Frailty
Sarcopenia
Age-related cognitive
decline
Alzheimer diseases
and other
dementias
Intervention
studies
Nutrition
Observational
studies
TARGET:
From healthy
to severe
disabled
older adults
Social determinants
Healthandsocialservices
Well-being and Quality of Life

3. http://profound.eu.com/

4. AIM: developing a novel system that
promotes Active Ageing:
- health
- participation
- security.
integrating in an accessible, intuitive and
user-friendly tablet.
User-centred and participatory design
iterative process: requirements gathering,
design and evaluation stages were repeated
until the final prototype.
http://saapho.eu/

5. To move forwards…
In a context of rapid change:
• ICT
• Ageing
• ICT and ageing

6. Some questions to move forwards…
• How are we working (developing new
products) together?
• How are we evaluating?
• How are we involving end-users?
• How do new products impact daily life?

7. Some thoughts to move forwards…
 Moving towards
 Transdisciplinar work
 Multidimensional evaluation
 Successfully involving end-users
 Creating meaningful products
… throughout the process

8. Laura Coll-Planas
Laura.coll@uab.cat
Responsible of the health research area