Ambient Assisted Living for ageing well – an overview

• DOI: 10.1007/s00502-010-0747-9
• Publication Date: 2010-09-08T09:45:10Z
• Authors: A. N. Belbachir; M. Drobics; W. Marschitz
• Keywords: European commission; Ageing society; Audience measurement

Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) can be considered as a future umbrella for technological advances. Especially elderly-related activities will be facing severe economical, social and psychological challenges such that all categories of the society (scientists, industrials, stakeholders and politicians) are called to contribute solutions to deal with expected issues. This paper aims to inform the intended readership about the status of research, programmes as well as actual efforts and challenges in the field of AAL. This report provides first the status of the problem as well as an overview of the AAL topics targeted by the European AAL Association and the European Commission. Selected AAL projects in Europe and worldwide as well as existing umbrellas for funding AAL research and technologies are briefly introduced.