‘Support for the Informal Caregiver in Long Term Care of elderly people; Platform for self-assessment and efficient management for informal caregivers (BREATHE)’, is an interdisciplinary research project

There are a number of problems that informal caregivers nowadays have to face: lack of experience and formal education in care, limited societal support, shortage of speceifi tools to manage the whole care cycle, problems co-ordinating care and other employment for carers (mostly women), stress and depression. This is a well-know problem since family carers provide 80% of long term care to dependent older people in Europe.

BREATHE Platform, which is funded by the European Commission, will provide an ICT-based solution for the caregiver and the elderly in order to mitigate these problems and impact at three different levels:

• Personal, by increasing quality of life and care.
• Local and regional, by providing a tool usable by different stakeholders to effectively manage the reality of the informal care as well as by opening opportunities of new business models and employment.
• European, by reducing health system costs as a consequence of an effective management of the informal care.

The individual solution is based on a strong server side system that maintains updated models if both caregiver and assisted person and offers strategic support and customised guidance for the informal caregiver during the whole long term care process.

Visit the BREATHE website for more information.

Consortium:
Soluciones Tecnologicas para la Salud y el Bienestar, S.A.
Kingston University London
Iniciativa Social Integral
Trinity College Dublin
Erremme
Bath Institute of Medical Engineering
Cybermoor Services Ltd
Tunstall Emergency Response Ltd

 

5th May 2015