ADAPTIVE
WITH ADAPTIVE WE WILL HELP MILLIONS OF OLDER PEOPLE THAT LIVE ALONE AT HOME.
ADAPTIVE Information
What is ADAPTIVE?
Keeping older people in the safe environment of their home for as long as possible is a challenge of increasing urgency because of the growing ageing population and budgetary pressure for residential care costs. ADAPTIVE introduces a state-of-the-art method for passive, non-contact, prediction of falls which builds upon an innovative Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based platform, known as Monica. We are now looking to make Monica smarter by allowing her to sense gait related issues and predict falls and prevent them from happening. This is where we need you to help us help the community, by validating the technology that will save lives of many people in the future.
What can Monica do?
Monica will act as a companion to the participants. She will greet the participants during the day, tell jokes, motivate to be more active, remind them to hydrate or take medication on time, answer different questions, play music and much more. The equipment will also, monitor health and wellbeing by collecting and analysing data from the different sensors deployed at home, like movement, ambient temperature, usage of appliances, and sounds signal. The data captured by Monica will be shared through a mobile app to the family members or carer, to allow them to make sure that the participant is healthy and safe at home.
Who are we looking for?
We are looking for a group of 50 older adults, aged 65+, living alone at home, without any cognitive or mental health issues, that will be happy to use the solution, interact with Monica on a daily basis and will enjoy her as a companion for a period of 12 months. Once the project ends, the participants will be able to keep the solution and keep using it for free, as a reward of participating in the research project. Participants that meet the criteria will be offered to participate on a first-come, first-served basis.
ADAPTIVE Partners
MiiCare
MiiCare is a social enterprise that was set up by a group of professionals with diverse industry backgrounds, ranging from healthcare to technology and product development. The team came together with one objective in mind: to give vulnerable people (both young and not so young) a Healthy, Safe, and Happy life by building on emerging IoT (Internet of Things) technologies and advancement in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Our team spent over a year working alongside a group of elderly people, clinicians, and carers to understand the issues faced by vulnerable people in their day-to-day life, such as falls, loneliness, depression, confusion, and forgetfulness. At the end of this lengthy consultative process, the team developed our first prototype - MiiCube. MiiCube has since been through an extensive development and user testing journey as the team wanted a solution that is reliable, adaptable, and user-friendly. The result is a technological marvel, which is suitable to a wide range of chronic conditions and builds on nonintrusive sensing technologies to preserve the privacy and dignity of the users, meaning no cameras, no video recording. As the lead partner in the project, MiiCare will be responsible for the overall management and delivery of the project managing various work packages, especially focusing on product/software/AI algorithm development and enhancement. MiiCare will be also involved in user engagement and clinical engagement with primary care network
University of Kent
University of Kent (UoK) is committed to the successful delivery of the ADAPTIVE project and has regrouped best of breed from the departments of Computer Science, Engineering, and Centre of Health Studies to support the project team. UoK also has a dedicated Gait Lab, which will be committed to ADAPTIVE’s industrial research project. Their role will be to contribute towards the setting up of the Ethical process, recruitment of volunteers, development and validation of the AI algorithm, software and hardware development and oversee testing and evaluation of those components under both laboratory and real-world conditions. Apart from contributing ideas, expertise and technology, the UoK will also be instrumental in ensuring impact from this project, through academic publications and dissemination at international conferences, patent disclosures (if appropriate), general readership publications and through leveraging their excellent established mechanisms for scientific outreach (including their press office).
East Kent Hospitals University
EKHU is one of the largest hospital trusts in England, with five hospitals and community clinics serving a local population of around 695,000 people. EKHU is the custodian of the Harmonia Village (formerly known as the Dementia Village). The Harmonia Village is the first of its kind in the UK and takes elements from the world-renowned Dutch dementia village Hogeweyk to deliver care, requiring less capital and being integrated with the local community and services. The Harmonia Village project (funded by EKHU and CASCADE* project) will totally transform the way care is delivered to people living with dementia. This paradigm shift is enabled by the innovations enabled by AI-based assistive technologies such as those provided by MiiCare. The facility will be an enclosed site containing 6 modified housing blocks, with each accommodating five residents with dementia. MiiCare has been supporting Harmonia’s project team for over a year advising on the use of assistive technology and influencing the technological pathway. *EKHU is a leading partner of CASCADE (Community Areas of Sustainable Care And Dementia Excellence in Europe) project, EKHU will be one of the trial partners in this project (through Harmonia Village), providing access to geriatricians, nurses specialised in dementia and fall prevention subject matter experts.
Bristol City Council
Bristol Operations centre provides telecare services to 12,000 users nationwide and has a mandate to deliver wellbeing through telecare, better care, connected homes, and preventative care, all of which are designed to improve the life of the citizen. The staff at the operations centre come from a very diverse background ranging from telecare, product development, and adult social care. More importantly, the staff are well versed with dementia care as well as falls detection and rehabilitation. The role of BCC in the project will be to help recruit suitable volunteers (from their current user base), inform the development of MiiCube, monitor the data collected from the participants, and participate in the validation of the AI algorithm.