The scope of the project is twofold:
1) To lift the ability of older people with cognitive impairment to apply technology.
2) Establishing of mechanisms for providing technology adaptable to this aim on commercial terms.
In Europe today the market fail ure is one of the reasons and challenges for the gap between available technology and the target group: elderly people with cognitive impairment.
We aim to map the market and suggest/establish distribution channels for this type of technology in a way t hat seniors get hold of it.
We will run pilots towards private families in Norway, Germany, Romania, Spain and UK. We will also run pilots towards Smart Homes in Germany and UK.
Through the pilots, we will identify the mechanisms and size of the marke t failure, possible channel choices, willingness to pay, technology refusal, and economical impacts of implementing of technology on individual and national level.