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1. Mechatronics based rehabilitation at home
2. The educational & training needs of a group of careers of elderly people in Osona
3. Nutritional intake & cognitive status in nursing
4. The experience of functional autonomy loss in elderly people: The disregarded voices
5. Decision support system (DDS) for risk assessment in low impact femoral fractures
6. Portable and adaptable BELT
7. Neurosciences Research Cluster of Excellence
8. NeuroRescue
9. VTT Active Ageing Forum
10. i-salut a casa
11. Leading innovative Health Solutions: pectus UP Surgery Kit
12. HELP: Home-based Empowered Living for Parkinson’s disease patients
13. eCAALYX. Enhanced Complete Ambient Assisted Living Experiment
SUMMARY

6. May 1st
2010 - October 31st
2011
Mechatronics based Rehabilitation at Home

7. Lead Participant
Fontys University of Applied Sciences (School of
Engineering, Mechatronics Department) - North Brabant
(NL) Contact: Mr. Johan Vlugter (j.vlugter@fontys.nl)
Participants
Technical University of Catalonia-Industrial Equipment
Design Center (CDEI-UPC) - Catalonia (ES)
University of Brescia (Laboratory of Mechatronics, Faculty
of Engineering) - Lombardy (IT)
University of West Bohemia (Faculty of Applied Sciences,
Department of Cybernetics) - South West Bohemia (CZ)
Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences Research &
Development - Upper Austria (AT)
Companies & Institutions
FOCAL Meditech B.V. - North Brabant (NL)
Fitland - North Brabant (NL)
Zuidzorg Foundation - North Brabant (NL)
Privamed Inc. - South West Bohemia (CZ)
Project data
Duration 18 months,
(May 1st 2010 - October 31st 2011)
Budget: € 458.384,-
ERDF funding € 369.551,30
Website www.mrh-project.eu
About Innovation 4 Welfare
Across Europe economic and demographic development
pose new challenges in health related issues: a general
tendency to prioritize on health and safety, the strong
increase in welfare-related diseases and the increased
need for (home) care for the ageing population, are
causing health care costs to increase rapidly. Innovative
solutions are necessary to meet these challenges and to
avoid health care becoming unaffordable.
Changing health needs are also an opportunity. It is an
attractive target area for developing innovative new
technologies and applications. Innovation 4 Welfare
aims to stimulate the development of health related
innovations. It is a four year mini-programme co-funded
by the European Regional Development Fund
(Interreg IVC) and has six partners throughout Europe.
These partner regions exchange good practices, execute
new innovation projects and try to influence regional
policies by stimulating innovation in the field of health
and safety. ( www.innovation4welfare.eu)
Partner regions
Innovation 4 Welfare involves partners from six regions
across Europe
Catalonia - Spain ACC1Ó
Lombardy - Italy CESTEC
Upper Austria - Austria TMG
Tartu - Estonia Tartu Science Park
South West Bohemia - Czech Republic RERA
Addressed needs
Against the background of increasing numbers of elderly
people living longer (double ageing) and growing impor-
tance of chronic diseases like diabetes (welfare diseases),
continuing the increase of quality, access and efficiency of
healthcare is considered one of the largest challenges in all
Regions of the European Community.
There is a clear understanding that better healthcare
and quality of life in general can be achieved for people
suffering from chronic diseases or disabilities through
technological innovation initiated in particular by SME’s.
Increasing numbers of (elderly) people need long term
rehabilitation due to some disease or trauma. With
execution of this project the participants aim to address
societal, economical, medical and technological needs
and challenges connected to the increasing demand of a
high quality and high volume of affordable rehabilitation
Mechatronics based
Turning welfare challenges into business opportunities
North Brabant - the Netherlands Province of North Brabant

8. services to elderly and/or chronically ill people.
Today therapy is offered to a patient by a therapist (usually
one on one) in healthcare centres or at the patient’s
private home.
the years, travelling to a health centre will often be
difficult, time consuming and expensive.
of home bound patients will inevitably increase
making the future of therapy at home on a ‘one on
one’ basis an almost unsustainable service.
a considerable impact on the daily routine of the
patient, as planning is and will be mainly based on the
schedules of the relative decreasing number therapists
available.
Activities for physiotherapy can be very roughly divided
into:
a body part and the therapist or a mechanical device
counteracts it. With equipment available at healthcare
centres a limited number of these treatments can be
executed autonomously. The equipment commercially
available to therapists today is still basically of mecha-
nical nature, with some added electronic (recording)
functionalities. More complex exercises are performed
manually by the therapist on the patient.
(moves the body part) and the patient should to some
extend and ability counteract the imposed movement.
In general this type of exercises is fully manually
applied ‘one on one’ to the patient by the therapist.
Rehabilitation treatments must be performed in many
cases with considerable accuracy over longer periods
of time to be effective and are therefore strenuous,
labour intensive and expensive. Overall effectiveness and
efficiency of therapy today still depends almost solely on
the (manual) skills and experience of the therapist.
There is an eminent need to address the growing
demand of rehabilitation services, for the European
Regions to be able to sustain in future years at least an
acceptable but preferably an enhanced level of these
services for the elderly and /or chronically ill people.
Approach
The basic approach of this project is to investigate the
increase of overall quality, efficiency and effectiveness of
physiotherapy to be achievable by introducing mechat-
ronics based rehabilitation equipment designed for the
use by patients at home under (remote) supervision by
therapists and medical specialists and thus reducing the
number of repetitive visits to or from therapists.
Main activities
The MRH project will focus on five main issues:
1. The present developments in rehabilitation
2. The success factors of a MRH application
3. The business opportunities for a MRH application
4. The design and development of MRH applications
5. The steps to be taken to make MRH applications
a success
At least five pilot applications will be developed to
demonstrate the results of the studies. The results will be
presented and discussed at five international meetings.
The overall results will be used to compose a ‘white book’
on the MRH concept.
Output
The MRH subproject aims to develop a ‘white book’ on
the different aspects of rehabilitation at home based on
Mechatronics. Input for this white book will be obtained
by consultation and by own research, and will be made
available for regional policymakers, companies and
authorities providing health and social care.
Rehabilitation at Home
Turning welfare challenges into business opportunities

9. Subproject participants
Mechatronics based Rehabilitation at Home
Catalonia
Technical University of Catalonia
Universitat Politècnica Catalunya (UPC)
Centre de Disseny d’Equipaments Industrials (CDEI)
Llorens Artigues 4-6, Edif U Planta O
08028 Barcelona, Spain
Contact: Sònia Llorens i Cervera Ilorens@cdei.upc.edu
Website: www.cdei.upc.edu/index-en.php
Lombardy
University of Brescia
Università degli Studi di Brescia (Unibs)
Piazza del Mercato, 15
25121 Brescia, Italy
Contact: Antonio Visioli antonio.visioli@ing.unibs.it
Website: http://www.unibs.it/on-line/ateneo/Home.html
North-Brabant (SLP)
Fontys University of Applied Sciences
Fontys Hogescholen (Fontys)
Rachelsmolen 1
5612 MA Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Contact: Johan Vlugter J.Vlugter@fontys.nl
Website: www.fontys.edu
South West Bohemia
University of West Bohemia
Západočeská univerzita v Plzni
Univerzitni 8
306 14 Plzeň, Czech Republic
Contact: Jaroslav Sobota jsobota@kky.zcu.cz
Website: http://www.zcu.cz/en/
Upper Austria
Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences
Fachhochschule Oberöstereich (FHOO)
Granisonstraße 21
4020 Linz, Austria
Contact: Andreas Schrempf andreas.schrempf@fh-linz.at
Website: http://www.fh-ooe.at/

10. The educational and training needs of a group of carers of elderly people in Osona
Vall Mayans, M.*
*Departament Salut i Acció Social
Facultat de Ciències de la Salut i el Benestar (FCSB)- UNIVERSITAT DE VIC (Barcelona)
OBJECTIVES
- To describe the functions of the carers of institutionalised elderly people
- To develop and validate an instrument to analyse the tasks performed by the carers
- To draw conclusions about the training needs of the Study Group (SG) and develop
a training proposal
Design: qualitative and descriptive study or diagnostic evaluation based on an analysis of the tasks
performed by the SG: information obtained from in-depth interviews, Residential Care Home records, field
observations based on a protocol and a checklist, fieldwork diary and documentary material.
Study period: 2009-2011.
Subjects and area studied: carers of the elderly in a formal setting; immigrant workers of varying age,
status, socioeconomic status, gender, and level of training/education, etc.; staff without managerial
responsibilities in privately owned or 3rd sector Residential Care Homes that are partly funded by the
Generalitat de Catalunya; in Osona.
..
RESULTS
CONCLUSIONS
MATERIAL AND METHODS
View of the managers of the Residential
Care Homes:
Participants: 9 (64.3%) / 14 (100%)
1st interview: the carers have training needs
2nd interview: validated the classification of tasks and
make suggestions regarding the training of the SG
SG Interview:
Profile
Participants: 44 (100%)→ women (89%)
aged between 19 and 56 (20-49)
arrived in Spain between 1971 and 2008
without Spanish nationality, but with a Residence Permit (80%)
educated to secondary level
with little experience of caring for the elderly before starting their current job
The SG feel they need training in: (approx. %)
PERSONAL HYGIENE ___________ 32%
ROOM TIDYING ___________ 32%
TOILETING ________________ 86.5%
NUTRITION AND FEEDING ________________ 59%
PUTTING TO BED ________________ 29.5%
RECORD KEEPING ___________ 91%
MOVING THE ELDERLY PERSON _________ 41%
NURSING CARE __________________ 86.4%
PERSONAL RELATIONS ___________ 70.5%
MEDICATION ___________ 70.5%
CLEANING/IRONING/OTHER TASKS ______ 15.9%
MEETINGS ___________ 43.2%
ONGOING IN-HOUSE TRAINING __________ 93.2%
OTHER ________________ 59.1%
Interviews
Observations
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
Numberofimmigrant
carers
Countries
Country of origin of SG
Direct observation of the SG:
N = 6 (2 mornings + 2 afternoons + 2 nights, ≠ Homes →
sample of approx. 13.5%), for 6–11½ hours (= length of
shift)
tasks performed: 132 / 220 (60% approx.), mainly
priority and secondary
time and staff are confirmed as insufficient to
perform all the validated tasks
many aspects of the work could be improved
Triangulation
The quality of the work of the
SG needs to be improved by
the suggested training
0
5
10
15
20
Centelles Manlleu SantQuirze
de Besora
Taradell Tona Torelló Roda de
Ter
Numberofimmigrant
carers
Towns
Location of Homes and SG
the capacities and skills the immigrant carers have are sufficient to cover some of the needs of the elderly residents
the carers feel they need to learn: to do some tasks, to improve others and to extend their skills, even in areas outside their professional responsibilities
to facilitate the learning of the SG, it is proposed that a training programme should be developed, using methods appropriate for adult learners who have
some experience, once their specific educational and training needs have been evaluated

11. UNIVERSITAT DE VIC
Nutritional intake and cognitive status in nursing home residents
MARÍA ESPERANZA DUDET CALVO
esperanza.dudet@uvic.cat
Department of Health and Social Action
Faculty of Health Sciences and Welfare – University of Vic (Barcelona)
Introduction: Malnutrition is a common problem in nursing homes,
and an inadequate nutrition can contribute to cognitive impairment.
The aim of this study was to determine the nutritional intake profile of
nursing home residents, related to cognitive status.
Methodology: A cross-sectional study was performed in 36 elderly (10
men and 26 women) institutionalized in a nursing home. Cognitive
status was determined using the Mini Mental State Examination
(MMSE), nutritional status whit the Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA),
and nutritional intake using double weight dietary record for three days.
Results: All residents showed excessive intake of saturated fatty acids
and deficient in energy, carbohydrates, -linolenic acid,
docosahexaenoic acid, fibre, riboflavin, niacin, folic acid, vitamins B6, D
and E, calcium, magnesium, iron, zinc, iodine, sodium and copper.
Cognitively normal elderly showed better scores in Mini Mental State
Examination (21.7 ± 4.7 vs 16.8 ± 5.2, p = 0.037), and higher intake of
total fatty acids (36.0 4.0 vs 31.3 5.0, p = 0. 54; 36.0 4.0 vs 34.8
3.7, p = 0.094), monounsaturated fatty acids (14.0 ± 2.1 vs 11.3 ±
2.7, p = 0.042), polyunsaturated fatty acids (5.2 ± 1.2 vs 3.8 ± 1.1, p =
0.058), fibre (14.2 ± 4.5 vs 7.6 ± 4.2, p = 0.005), folic acid (173.6 ±
51.6 vs 101.2 ± 41.5, p = 0.013), vitamin C (116.5 ± 60.0 vs 89.2 ±
47.2 vs 66.8 ± 39.4, p = 0.051), vitamin E (3.7 ± 1.3 vs 2.4 ± 1.4, p =
0.065), iodine (67.7 ± 12.7 vs 48.1 ± 20.5, p = 0.067) and copper
(926.5 ± 409.9 vs 783.6 ± 623.7 vs 499.8 ± 256.2, p = 0.044) that
cognitive impaired elderly.
Conclusions: A higher intake of total fatty acids, monounsaturated
and polyunsaturated fatty acids, fibre, folic acid, vitamins C and E,
iodine and copper could contribute to better cognitive function. All
residents, regardless of their cognitive status, conducted a nutritionally
unbalanced and deficient diet.
Key words: nutritional intake, nutritional status, cognitive status,
nursing home elderly.
Abstract
Introduction
One of the health policy from WHO to promote active aging is to reduce the risk
factors related to the causes of major diseases, and to increase factors that
protect health; nutrition / feeding is one of the factors to address.
Malnutrition is a common health problem in nursing homes. Cognitive
impairment / dementia is one of the features that characterize the profile of
institutionalized elderly in these centres. Cognitive decline may be attributable,
in part, to inadequate nutrition. Considering all these factors, we carried out
this study in order to know the nutritional intake profile of nursing home
residents, based on cognitive status.
Results
Table 1. Baseline characteristics of study sample based on cognitive status.
(CIND: cognitive impairment no dementia; MNA: Mini Nutritional Assessment; MMSE: Mini Mental State Examination).
(1) Satisfactory nutritional status: 24 points; Risk of malnutrition: 17 – 23.5 points; Malnutrition: < 17 points.
(2) Normality vs CIND p = 0.000; Normality vs Dementia p = 0.000; CIND vs Dementia p = 0.035.
Table 2. Energy and nutrients intake based on cognitive status.
Normality
(n = 8)
CIND
(n = 12)
Dementia
(n = 16)
p Reference values
Age (years) 89.0 4.8 84.7 7.9 84.7 6.2 NS
Women (%) 62.5 83.3 68.8 NS
MNA (nº points) 21.7 4.7^ 16.8 5.2^ 17.6 2.8 0.037 (1)
MMSE (nº points) 26.6 2.9^* 15.7 4.5^ 10.1 7.1* (2) 23: cognitive impairment
Normality
(n = 8)
CIND
(n = 12)
Dementia
(n = 16)
p Reference values
Energy (kcal) 1622.0 281.5 1445.0 416.4 1359.6 263.1 NS 2100 1700
P t i (%) 14 5 2 3 15 6 3 1 17 1 3 5 NS 12 17
Nursing elderly
Methodology
1. A higher intake of total fatty acids, monounsaturated and
polyunsaturated fatty acids, fibre, folic acid, vitamins C and E,
iodine and copper could contribute to better cognitive function.
2. All residents, regardless of their cognitive status, conducted a
nutritionally unbalanced and deficient diet, suggesting that supply
and/or food intake were insufficient.
3. Although there is no consensus in the scientific evidence, the
nutritional profile of the dietary intake observed in all residents
could be a risk factor for cognitive decline.
4. An improvement of food intake may have a beneficial effect not
only on the overall nutritional status but also in cognitive function.
5. To improve dietary intake, in addition to offering healthy menu, is
necessary to control and stimulate food intake.
6. Food education workshops for residents and family, and their
participation in choosing the menu, could be a strategy to
stimulate food intake.
Conclusions
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(CIND: cognitive impairment no dementia; SFA: saturated fatty acids; MUFA: monounsaturated fatty acids; PUFA: polyunsaturated fatty acids).
(1) Normality vs CIND p = 0.054; Normality vs Dementia p = 0.094.
Proteins (%) 14.5 2.3 15.6 3.1 17.1 3.5 NS 12 – 17
Carbohydrates (%) 49.6 2.9 53.3 6.9 48.2 6.3 NS 55 – 75
Fat (%) 36.0 4.0^* 31.3 5.0^ 34.8 3.7* (1) 30 – 35
SFA (%) 12.2 2.0 11.5 2.9 12.6 1.9 NS < 7 – 10
MUFA (%) 14.0 2.1^ 11.3 2.7^ 12.5 2.2 0.042 > 13
PUFA (%) 5.2 1.2^ 3.8 1.1^ 4.4 1.4 0.058 < 10
α-linolenic acid (g) 0.47 0.19 0.37 0.15 0.37 0.16 NS 2
Docosahexaenoic acid (g) 0.11 0.15 0.09 0.10 0.04 0.06 NS 0.2
Cholesterol (mg) 310.2 190.0 249.8 132.8 292.8 119.6 NS < 300
Fibre (g) 14.2 4.5* 10.2 4.7 7.6 4.2* 0.005 20 – 30
Thiamine (mg) 1.09 0.22 1.04 0.58 1.22 0.68 NS 1.2 1.1
Riboflavin (mg) 1.11 0.34 1.12 0.27 1.18 0.29 NS 1.3 1.2
Niacin (mg) 12.3 4.4 11.0 3.7 11.6 3.5 NS 16 15
Vitamin B6 (mg) 1.25 0.36 0.97 0.36 1.07 0.35 NS 1.4 1.2
Folic acid (mcg) 173.6 51.6* 139.5 71.4 101.2 41.5* 0.013 400
Cobalamin (mcg) 3.6 2.0 3.1 1.0 3.4 1.6 NS 3
Vitamin C (mg) 116.5 60.0 89.2 47.2 66.8 39.4 0.051 100
Vitamin A (mcg) 1417.3 996.1 811.2 604.8 1303.7 773.6 NS 1000 800
Vitamin D (mcg) 3.7 4.6 2.0 1.8 1.9 1.8 NS 10 – 15
Vitamin E (mg) 3.7 1.3^ 2.4 1.4^ 2.9 1.0 0.065 12 – 15 11 – 15
Calcium (mg) 762.4 254.8 671.9 200.2 678.9 214.2 NS 1000
Magnesium (mg) 187.6 33.5 155.0 51.8 150.7 37.9 NS 420 350
Phosphorus (mg) 928.7 233.1 836.7 192.3 857.0 189.8 NS 700
Iron (mg) 8.4 1.4 7.4 2.9 7.1 2.2 NS 10
Zinc (mg) 6.6 1.4 6.0 2.6 5.7 1.5 NS 10 7
Iodine (mcg) 67.7 12.7 48.1 20.5 59.4 28.3 0.067 150
Selenium (mcg) 62.4 17.2 55.3 27.3 45.6 21.7 NS 55
Copper (mcg) 926.5 409.9 783.6 623.7 499.8 256.2 0.044 1500 – 3000
Sodium (mg) 1455.7 364.4 1131.1 392.5 1191.3 409.9 NS 2500 – 5000
Potassium (mg) 1958.9 351.4 1641.1 412.0 1672.5 348.6 NS 1600 – 2000
51 residents
No informed consent: 4
Death: 1
Physical deterioration very advanced: 5
Intake outside the residence: 2
Aggressiveness: 3
36 residents
(10 men + 26 women)
Cognitive status: Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE)
Nutritional status: Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA)
Nutritional intake: dietary record by double weight program Dietsource 2.0
(3 days: 2 working + 1 holiday)
Statistical analysis: SPSS vs 11.0
Mean ± DE; Tukey-honestly and Kruskal-Wallis

12. RESULTS
ABSTRACT
ANNA BONAFONT I CASTILLO
anna.bonafont@uvic.cat
METHODOLOGY
Interpretatitive constructivist
paradigm. Case Study
Individuals aged over 70 years old with
mild or moderate loss of functional
autonomy, who live at home and who
have preserved cognitive skils
4 people (71-94 years old)
2 Men 2 Women
Semi-structured in-depth interview
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Decision Support System (DSS) for Risk Assessment in Low-Impact
Femoral Fractures
Bosch J1, Idelsohn S2, Montesinos J1, Koch MA2.
1Althaia, Xarxa Assistencial Universitaria de Manresa, F.P. Manresa, Spain
2Fundació CTM Centre Tecnològic, Manresa, Spain
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15. Fundació
Parc de
Salut
· Exchange of best practices in Neurosciences
· International collaboration of companies and academics
· Development of innovative clusters
NeuroRescue
NEUROsciences RESearch Clusters of Excellence
Supported by the EC's Regions of Knowledge Programme
www.neurorescue.eu

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19. VTT Active Ageing Forum
ActiveAgeing@vtt.fi
www.vtt.fi
WHAT ARE WE AIMING AT?
To improve the quality of life of
people of third age (55+) by means of
ICT services.
Trends:
1) Individualism
2) Forever young
3) Brain training
4) Travelling & Seasonal Migration
5) Grey Panthers at Work
Offerings:
1) Tackle the trends with new uses for
technologies
2) Introduce service solutions for
active ageing
3) Bring value for clients and ’worth’
to users
4) Create new business possibilities
Value for clients/stakeholders:
• knowledge pool on ageing users &
technology
• direct communication with
end-users
• synergy in the network
• end user empowerment
What and how?
• adopting new Human-Driven
design models & methods
(e.g. empowering design
practices, co-innovation tools,
IHME – innovation and co-creation
spaces, ethical design)
• see-try-think-share; win-win
• user studies, Life-Based Design
• design & innovation workshops
• concept design &
(agile)prototyping
• evaluation of prototypes, products
& services
• B2C & B2B
Contacts:
Veikko Ikonen
Veikko.ikonen@vtt.fi
Jaana Leikas
Jaana.Leikas@vtt.fi

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Outcome for patient?
Being at home, his known and natural environment
Advanced identification of unbalances
Reduction of emergencies
Reduction of adverse effects
Improvement of life quality
Low cost vs better effectiveness: patient’s active role with self-care
Opportunities and benefits:
More autonomy and psychological comfort for the patient and familyMore autonomy and psychological comfort for the patient and family
Increasing physical activity and healthIncreasing physical activity and health
Alternative to senior residence – staying at homeAlternative to senior residence – staying at home
Cost-Effective solution: Prevention improvement and health cost
reduction
Cost-Effective solution: Prevention improvement and health cost
reduction
Home nurse services and telemonitoring
Abstract
Telemonitoring technology to improve health care
services for chronic patients at home, with special
focus on elderly andvulnerable people.
Telemonitoring, either for health care professionals
(nurse and general practitioners GP) or for patient
self-measurements, consisting on respiratory-rate,
heart-rate, blood pressure, oxygen saturation,
weight, body temperature, electrocardiograph and
blood glucose measurements. Additionally, the
patients will complete a qualitative symptom
questionnaire daily using the telemonitoring system.
The system generates automatic alarms, based on
the defined intelligence and individual thresholds,
shown at the dashboard and sent by mail and SMS
to the nurse or GP responsible. Regular telephone
calls and visits are defined under the Nurse Care
Plan for the patient (Pla de Cures d’Infermeria PCI).
Telemonitoring ubiquitous intervention aimed at
home care patients with heart failure (HF), chronic
lung disease (CLD) –such chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease (COPD), asthma and other
respiratory conditions-, diabetis, hypertension
(HTN) and fragile patients.
Telemonitoring combined with home nurse services
is the alternative mode of health care provision for
medically unstable elderly patients, who bear a high
degree of physical and functional deterioration and
also often with high degree of dependency.
Careline@PRO: Telemonitoring system for the professionals. Managing multiple patients
assigned to different health careprofessionals (nurse and GP).
Careline@HOME: Telemonitoring system for the patient at home. Gives to the patient the
ability to measure its biometric parameters and provide qualitative symptom feedback in a
daily basis to nurse and GP.
Complex patient
High risk patient
Stable chronic patient
Healthy patient
Case
manag.
Case
manag.
Disease
management
Disease
management
Disease self-controlDisease self-control
Health prevention and
promotion
Health prevention and
promotion
Telemonitoring technology for home health care services
Local
Ubiquitous
Pro-active
Personalized
Remote management
Real Time
Intelligence
Patient/pathology set-up
Devices,PDA/Smartphone(Bluetooth)
WebManager/Extranet
GPRS/3G, VPN

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Development of an obstetric pro-
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Barcelona (Spain)
Telephone: +34 93 870 49 39
Fax: +34 93 879 17 27
info@venturamedicaltechnologies.com
www.venturamedicaltechnologies.com
Production plants:
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La Roca del Vallès (Spain)
Ctra. de Valldeoriolf, km 0.2
08430 La Roca del Vallès
Barcelona (Spain)
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Fax: +34 93 879 17 27
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Osteosynthesis
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New device and surgery kit that
allows the development of a mi-
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solves a lot of the existing pro-
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Oncological
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Development of a device that will
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Improvements in rehabilitation
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Technological and clinical innovation of the technologies
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Pectus UP Surgery Kit
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22. HELP: “Home-based Empowered Living for
Parkinson’s disease patients”
Jaume Romagosa and Joan Cabestany
Technical Research Centre for the Dependency Care and Autonomous Living– CETpD / Technical University of Catalunya—UPC
Objectives
Parkinson Disease
The HHELP project (Home-based Empowered living for Parkinson's Disease Patients) aims at
developing a comprehensive system able to administer drug therapy in either continuous or on-
demand basis in order to manage disease progression and to mitigate Parkinson's disease
symptoms.
This project will be developed in a user-oriented way; thus, involving the users during the whole
lifetime of the project. It is important to remark that HELP users are not only patients, but also
medical doctors, relatives, nurses, etc. That is: each and every actor involved in the care process.
Inertial Sensor
Accelerometers, gyroscopes and magnetometers transducers capture physical signals produced by
the body motions; the sensor processes these signals in order to extract spatio-temporal properties
of the patient’s motions i.e., patient’s postures, energy expenditure and detection of daily living
activities. These variables are constantly sent to the gateway as controller’s inputs to ensure a
treatment consequent with the motor needs of the patients [3]. An internal communication module
is also required to establish constant information exchange with the gateway/controller.
Involved Partners
Bibliography
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a pathology that is thought to affect more than four million people world
-wide. It is the fourth most frequent disorder of the nervous system, after epilepsy, brain vascular
disease and Alzheimer. The average age at diagnosis is 60 years. Given the rapidly advancing aging
population, PD is becoming a major public health issue in Europe [1].
One of the consequences of chronic diseases (e.g. Parkinson´s disease) in elderly people is the
limitation of their motion capacity and a straightforward lack of physical activity. This lost of
autonomy has a direct impact on the quality of life of the elders and their caregivers [2].
Germany
Italy
Spain
Israel
[1] Poto nik J (European Commissioner for Science and Research), A focus on Parkinson's disease and the
European Society, 1st European Brain Policy Forum, Brussels, 27.2.2008.
[2] Foerster,F. et al, Detection of posture and motion by accelerometry: A validation study in ambulatory
monitoring. CHB, vol 15, 1999.
System Components
About CETpD
The TTechnical Research Centre for Dependency Care and Autonomous Living (CETpD) is an applied
research and technology transfer centre created for the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and
the Fundació Hospital Comarcal Sant Antoni Abat on behalf of the Consorci de Servei a les
Persones de Vilanova i la Geltrú, with the aim of covering the demand for research and
development in the field of Geriatrics, Ambient Intelligence, Assistive Robotics and User Experience
Technologies.
The CCETpD has a team of highly qualified researchers with proven professional experience, skilled
technicians and research fellows. This team includes specialists in electronics, computational
intelligence, telecommunications, psychology, gerontology, medicine and behavior sciences, who
are skilled at performing interdisciplinary work.
The CCETpD carries out important applied research work and innovation focused on socially relevant
developments, especially on technologies and systems designed to enhance independent living of
elderly and disabled people.
HELP presents an innovative a comprehensive care approach to face PD, in order to maximize the
adherence to the treatment. The system is composed of four main elements:
An inertial sensor, located on the belt of the patient extracting information about the patient’s
physical activity (movement), in order to infer drug needs.
A portable subcutaneous pump dynamically delivering medication to the patient.
A non-invasive intraoral continuous drug delivery device.
A blood pressure monitor to supervise the patient’s overall health condition.
A mobile gateway in charge of the management of the network through wireless access.
[3] A. Rodríguez-Molinero, D.A. Pérez-Martínez, A. Català, J. Cabestany, Treatment of Parkinson’s disease could be
regulated by movement sensors: Subcutaneous infusion of varying apomorphine doses according to the
intensity of motor activity, Medical Hypotheses, V.72 N.4, Elsevier, 2009, pp 430-433.
Inertial Sensor
We constructed a wearable electronic device, the inertial sensor, able to measure inertial properties
of motion: it captures the acceleration produced on its own spatial frame G = [gx,gy,gz], and the
angle of rotation of the sagittal plane (frontal rotation).
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0
5
10
Acceleration values while standing, walking and seating
Time (s)
Acceleration(m/s2
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