Antonio (pseudonym) is one of the participants in the Pharaon project using the monitoring service, and after the first six months of using the system, he expresses his enthusiasm in this way. He states that since the project started, he has felt like an active...
Rosa is seventy years old; she lives alone in a province in southern Tuscany and when she was asked to participate in the Pharaon project, she accepted without hesitation. She was requested to test the socialization service with the aim of increasing opportunities to keep in...
The world’s population of people aged 65 years and older is rapidly rising, in the EU more than one fifth (21,1%) was aged 65 and over in 2022. Research is looking into ways to increase the healthy life years of older individuals and their quality...
Pharaon will start the development of a specification on 'Guidelines on Action Research for Large Scale Piloting' with an online workshop on 17 July 2023 at 10:00 – 13:00 CEST. This workshop is intended to mainly be used by researchers and pilot managers, but can also...
Vera, how nice that we could interview you. You’re all the way in Brussels and I am in Enschede, but we are both in the European project Pharaon. We’ll talk about what you do in Pharaon later. But may I first ask.. Who are you?...
Many Dutch Pharaon Plusbus locations have now completed the study. What happens to the participants now? A number of locations have indeed completed the study. Participants from these locations, like all other participants, will continue to receive the monthly Dutch newsletter until the end of the...
March and April were busy weeks for the Dutch Pharaon pilot. A number of Plusbus locations are already finishing with the Pharaon study but before doing so, they still went on a number of excursions with the Plusbus. For example, the participants went to the...
In previous interviews with older people that participate in Pharaon, they clearly indicated that older people themselves know very well what is needed. A new generation of scientists realises this all too well and wants to change science. Science must become more accessible and transparent...
Ria and Ron van Weezep are two participants of the Dutch Pharaon pilot who both have been running for years – and with great success. They were interviewed over the phone by our Pharaon partner Femke Nijboer, University of Twente, while they were on their...
Led by Pharaon partner DIN, European large-scale pilot projects developed the content for a CEN Workshop Agreement (specification, pre-standard) on “Digital health innovations — Good practice guide for obtaining consent for the use of personal health information for research and innovations”. Public commenting The draft document is...