New opportunities for older adults care transition from traditional to personalised assistive care: VINCI platform

Today, we are witnessing profound changes in the provision of healthcare services, shifting from illness-centred systems to patient-centred ones, able to deliver a personalised and integrated experience. This new approach has been generated by the tendencies of recent decades regarding the continuous increase of chronic medical conditions associated with both the modern lifestyle and the accelerated rate of population ageing. Therefore, under the pressure of the three requirements that shape the future of care services (better quality care, improving patient experience and health, while reducing total costs), we are moving towards a new ecosystem-based model of care that incorporates the following key features: permanent innovation, self and continuous care based on emergent technologies (Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence, Big data etc.) available nearby or at home, patient engagement, personalised assistance, data and analytics. In this regard, as part of the European research effort, in this paper it is presented a new integrated and validated framework using IoT to provide non-intrusive monitoring and personalised assistance services to older adults: the vINCI platform. This system is a clinically-validated environmental framework, in which several smart devices work together to aggregate a solution able to contribute at the improvement of the older adults' quality of life.