The sustainable resource management of public health systems is threatened by a number of factors, among them the ongoing population ageing and the ensuing increased prevalence of chronic conditions, opening a debate about the need for new models of care. Self-management appears as a new care paradigm where patients are taught how to carry out the activities of daily living optimally in the face of their physiological impairment and to decrease the severity of their disease by means of life style adaptation.
The main aim of this project is the design and development of CARE-U, an integrative environment for the development, validation, assessment, evaluation and deployment of a new generation of ubiquitous health services enhancing the prominence of patients in managing their chronic disease under the self-management paradigm. The proposed environment will be based on a previous open architecture being implemented on smart mobile consumer electronics.
The specific goals of the project are the following: