Funded Projects 2014-2020

Project RemoAge

Project Acronym	RemoAge
Project Title	Remote support of Aged people
Project subsite	RemoAge
Project Website	http://www.remoage.eu

Summary

The RemoAge project will tackle the challenge of supporting people with dementia and other frail older people to age in places in remote and sparsely populated areas of the northern periphery of Europe, with long distances and limited resource to meet the challenge. It will build on and roll out tested and evaluated service packages that will meet this challenge.

Objectives

The objectives of the project are: To develop, test and disseminate new solutions for services that improve the quality of support to frail older people in remote communities , to develop, test and disseminate services that include aspects of remote support , to develop, test and disseminate innovative technology-driven public services, develop, test, and disseminate new services for awareness raising and training of the family, community members and professionals as well as develop, test and disseminate models for support of frail older people built on a transnational learning process

Impacts

Tangible

Improved access to services:	The services developed in the project gave elderly people opportunities to access services remotely that they would not normally have been able to access. Users of mobile GPS security alarms have expressed a greater sense of freedom, which increases their participation in community activities and allows them to be more physically active.

Intangible

Changing attitude and behaviour:	Elderly people living in remote areas have learnt how to use communication technologies to reduce their social isolation and connect with health carers. Conventional views on the use of technology by older people were challenged as many participants did not think that using tablets was for them. By embedding the technology into the daily operations of the care organizations, the employees became more open-minded towards technology supporting the conventional care.
Influencing policies:	Western Isles Health & Social Care Partnership have adopted the project’s outputs as a viable approach to tackling social isolation in support of improved health and wellbeing as part of their Strategic Plan. This has resulted in a Safe @ Home Programme bringing together projects such as ConnectingUists that aim to support vulnerable persons in their homes and looks to extend the principles pursued in the project.

Changing attitude and behaviour:

Elderly people living in remote areas have learnt how to use communication technologies to reduce their social isolation and connect with health carers. Conventional views on the use of technology by older people were challenged as many participants did not think that using tablets was for them. By embedding the technology into the daily operations of the care organizations, the employees became more open-minded towards technology supporting the conventional care.

Influencing policies:

Western Isles Health & Social Care Partnership have adopted the project’s outputs as a viable approach to tackling social isolation in support of improved health and wellbeing as part of their Strategic Plan. This has resulted in a Safe @ Home Programme bringing together projects such as ConnectingUists that aim to support vulnerable persons in their homes and looks to extend the principles pursued in the project.