EU Policy Workshop - 'Public Primary Care Standard for Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) Services in Europe'

AAL solutions can only result from heavily interdisciplinary efforts. Starting with a focus on the end-user and the analysis of social and medical aspects, ICT and easy-to-use human machine interfaces will provide solutions to the relatives and professional users in the social- and healthcare segment allowing them to deliver cost efficient services to governmental institutions or to public and private insurances.

In order to create a European market and to mobilise industry and service providers to invest money into the R&D that later will help to deliver cost effective services with assured quality levels, it is necessary to agree on a primary care standard that covers all basic aspects of AAL.

Due to the distributed aspect of service delivery, a primary care standard for AAL will not only need to include a discussion about the services themselves. It is necessary to understand well the different European socio-political backgrounds that will influence the selection of technologies and solutions. Topics to be addressed include the infrastructure that needs to be available to deliver the services and to which extent existing standards and platforms can be reused for this purpose.

No final answers are expected from the event; it is expected instead to stimulate further activities and discussions in order to proceed with preparing Europe for the consequences of the ongoing demographic change.

The Workshop is thus seen as a contribution to the European Commission's Action Plan entitled 'Ageing Well in the Information Society' by bringing together experts from user organisations, governmental institutions, insurances, industry and service providers (healthcare, ICT).

The two days workshop programme is composed of 6 different sessions.  

Registration is free of charge but compulsory; it is to be made online by 11 June 2010.  

Event email: http://aal-ws.fraunhofer.pt/form/contact-form/