Active aGeing And Personalised Service's Ecosystem (AGAPE) Aims to Implement an Advanced Technology Platform That Provides Services to the Elderly, Formal and Informal Caregivers, and Caregiving Organizations

Active aGeing And Personalised Service's Ecosystem

AGAPE aims to implement an advanced technology platform that provides services to older adults, formal and informal caregivers, and caregiving organizations.

AGAPE aims to promote an active and healthy lifestyle in the over-65 population and, in parallel, to improve the quality of life of caregivers (by reducing the burden of care), while also overcoming the possible digital literacy gap of users. The advantage of the AGAPE platform is to offer users highly personalized services based on their needs and digital capabilities, and innovative technologies integrated with each other that fit within the spatial services already available in local ecosystems. The project involves an impact-by-design approach that engages older people, caregivers, and managers of care organizations in a co-creation strategy. In addition, the solutions offered by the AGAPE platform will be extensively tested in a preliminary pre-validation phase in order to effectively meet the needs of end users.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Age ≥ 65 years
• Ability to understand the rationale and characteristics of the study and to provide informed consent
• Low level of frailty, indicated by a score <5 on the Rockwood Clinical Frailty Scale (Rockwood et al., 2005)
• Absence of moderate to severe cognitive impairment, indicated by a Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) score ≥ 24 (adjusted score; Folstein, 1975)
• Absence of severe comorbidities and clinically relevant diseases

Exclusion Criteria:

• Age below 65 years
• Inability to provide informed consent for participation in the study
• High level of frailty (Rockwood Clinical Frailty Scale > 5)
• Presence of cognitive impairment (adjusted MMSE score < 24)
• Diagnosed anxiety and depression
• Presence of severe disability and serious health conditions