Towards an integrated TV-based system for active ageing and tele-care

Active ageing and independent living are primary goals of modern society, experiencing a progressive increase of the elderly population. The societal challenges of promoting inclusion strategies along with home-care services supporting independence and de-hospitalization strike against the sustainability of policies tackling these aspects in traditional ways. This paper presents the first steps of an AAL Joint Programme project, HEREiAM, aimed at developing an interactive TV-based technological platform, designed around the expected users and delivering both healthcare and AAL services directly in the user’s home. Mainly thought to break down the digital divide for the elderly, it will take advantage of this preliminary profiling and usability study to define the specifications able to create a really usable system embodying the required functionalities.