A full day was dedicated to the PHARAON project during the MEDEA Academy on 26-29 June in Fiesole, Italy. Involvement Pharaon partners Gerontopole Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Roessingh Research and Development (RRD), Santa Casa de Misericordia de Amadora (SCMA), Centro TecnolĂłgico del Mueble y la Madera de la...
On 5 July 2023 a meeting was held with 30 older people from various towns in the province of Jaén, Spain, who have been very active in the Andalusian Pharaon pilot. The meeting took place at the Torredelcampo Social Services Centre, where Pharaon partners got first-hand...
David Huybens is a Creative Technology student at the University of Twente. He earns a little extra by working as an assistant in the Pharaon project. His job is to collect the paper questionnaires provided by the Dutch participants and keep the data safe. He...
The doctoral thesis of our Pharaon researcher Francisco Melero entitled "ICT solutions for active and healthy aging at home, in the workplace and in society" has been successfully defended on 2 June and received an “Outstanding Cum Laude”. The thesis was supported by more than half...
Pharaon outcomes from the Italian Pilot site were presented during the last Italian Forum of Ambient Assisted Living 2023 (ForItAAL2023) held in Bari, Italy from 14-16 June 2023. About 30-40 people interested in ambient and assisted living to support active and healthy ageing both from academia...
Pharaon participated together with other health and care cluster projects at the Radical Health Festival in Helsinki from 12-14 June 2023. Pharaon kicked-off its participation on Monday 12 June through the health and care cluster session facilitated by EHTEL “Scaling up digital health services for active...
Digital health innovations are still in the development or evaluation process. Thus, when they are used, for example in pilot projects, formal patient consent is required for all phases of development. The CEN Workshop Agreement (CWA) 17933 - Good practice guide for obtaining consent for the...
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...