The aim of this project is the acceptance and impact of assistance systems
by testing a growing, quarter-based and transferable product service system.
The aim is to get information about the acceptance of elderly people about
AAL-technologies in their direct living environment.
Q-Data Service is a company with long years’ experience in the sector
of ambient assisted living and smart home technologies. Together
with the IT-department of the university of Hamburg the idea was
developed, to test the acceptance in a real life setting.
Pflegen & Wohnen is Hamburgs biggest company in the sector of
residential care and homes for the elderly in Hamburg. In the
residential home Uhlenhorst one flat was equipped with innovative
AAL-technologies and more than 100 people stayed between one
night and one moth. The university Hamburg evaluated this with pre
and after stay interviews.
The main stakeholders are the companies on the field of residential
care and homes as well as in the housing sector.
The target population are citizens aged 60 years +.
It was difficult to find people who liked to stay for a longer period in
the flat. Most people liked to stay one, two or three nights.
Nevertheless, the acceptance differs significant, if you can get used
to the technical solutions, especially the more complex one, like the
light system. One other challenge was that services didn´t existed in
real life, but the acceptance should be evaluated. Therefor services
like the delivery of laundry needed to be installed just for the
project.
Resources needed
1.1 million Euro
Evidence of success
The project is a good practice, because we have strong results about
acceptance of technologies from senior citizens. The evaluation report was
used by other projects e.g. in the field of interoperability and standardisation
in the AAL.
The social impact in Hamburg is that much more awareness is now on the
field of AAL. For example, many groups like senior citizen organisations
visited the flat.
Difficulties encountered
It was difficult to find people who liked to stay for a longer period in the flat.
Most people liked to stay one, two or three nights. Nevertheless, the
acceptance differs significant. One other challenge was that services didn´t existed in real life, but the acceptance should be evaluated.
Potential for learning or transfer
In this project more than 100 people stayed between one night and one
month in the experimental flat during the project and an extra evaluation
phase of three years. All persons where interviewed by the University of
Hamburg. The University published the results and gave recommendations
for the equipment with AAL-technologies.
The project results lead to the project idea of the scale-up project AGQua.
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