Towards an new solution for active aging
Satus Quo
The recent pandemic strongly highlighted the need for digital, remotely controlled, home-based training and therapy. Due to the fast ICT development over the past decades, technology offers the opportunity to provide digital solutions for tele- rehabilitation including technology-based training in the home environment as well as a digital centralized case management.
So far, there is no model on the market for a validated and user-friendly geriatric tele-rehabilitation approach which includes technological solutions for home-based, individually tailored training as well as digital centralized case management, which is equally effective but more affordable than conventional treatment. Thus, there is a strong need for a comprehensive concept for healthy aging supported by digital solutions across the geriatric continuum-of-care.
COCARE Project
Therefore, this project aims to develop COCARE. COCARE consists of several components, some of which are already developed and validated. The COCARE ecosystem will be extended for the application in a tele-rehabilitation setting. Specifically, COCARE includes
- technological devices for motor-cognitive training in clinics (Senso) and at home (SensoFlex) with a high usability resulting from a user-centred development approach,
- an assessment system providing a standardized assessment battery leading to an analysis of the physical and cognitive functional status and training recommendations,
- a digital web-based management system and rehabilitation cockpit to guide and support the rehabilitation process over the whole continuum-of-care.
The COCARE solution is a technology-driven ecosystem for in- and out-patient rehabilitation as well as a tool for supervised home-based rehabilitation (tele-rehabilitation). The solution combines a user-friendly software (including patient, assessment, and training management) and dedicated hardware to ensure a safe, reliable, and effective experience and treatment along the whole geriatric continuum-of-care.
COCARE is designed for treatment in geriatric health care and rehabilitation pathways. It starts during the in- and out-patient treatment of patients in clinics, hospitals or other therapy centres and continues, under the supervision of an assigned therapist, in the home environment. Thus, COCARE is a business to business to consumer (B2B2C) solution. In a first step, COCARE targets hospitals/clinics, rehabilitation centres and other health care operators with an enterprise-level solution. Qualified owners of an enterprise-level solution can distribute the solution to end-consumers.
