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The old lady moved with slow steps through the hospital corridor. On their Gehwagen having, makes them the little screen between the handles do not come from the eyes. Because there is flashing a red arrow and shows her the way.
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Mobility in old age: Intelligent assistance systems to help
"Even those who are otherwise difficult zurechtfindet can with as a navigator in the dining-room nursing home problems," says Professor Elisabeth Steinhagen-Thiessen. It directs the Geriatric Research Group of the Berlin Charité, where on Monday the project to the Senior Smart Start has been - as the first nation-wide by 17, the research community, industry and care in a boat to get to old people more mobility, independence and health preserve.
Technique as Lebenshilfe
The Federal Ministry of Research supported the project with a total of 145 million euros over the next three years. Solo Smart Senior is 25 million euros, plus 18 million euros from the economy. An initiative which, according to researchers from age overdue. "We are largely still not on the changing demographic," says Steinhagen-Thiessen. Too long have you technical aids for the elderly deuced. "But it's not about the people in the elderly and nursing to replace but to support them." On a motion by the Berlin Protestant Geriatriezentrum researcher presents the age, which she says so.
In a therapy room there is a stroke patient in front of a computer: A special training program will help her to gradually hand to his mouth to lead. Sensors on the body to control its movement and the program is also a feedback of how well it has succeeded in the exercise.
"In the beginning, the big fear. But then, patients are completely wild on this computer exercises and do not want to stop," says an occupational therapist. Precisely because it is frustrating for many patients was a therapist before the first, tiny and not always successful steps. "But before the computer, they can just so long for large beet until it works," she says.
How important is this independence, which knows the blogs journalist Jürgen Leinemann to report. More than a year ago he fell ill and was difficult until after several months of therapy at the center of Berlin in his life. "I was always a technical idiot and have never been interested in me," he says. "But my self-esteem after the disease was on the ground, and the return to everyday life was very important. This is me today any technical support is right."
Automatic Alarm
Professor Hans Aukes of Deutsche Telekom, spokesman for the Smart Senior project, stresses that the technical innovations as far as possible without any traces in the everyday life of the ancients and paste must remain readily operable. Aukes: "The issue of mobile phones has shown us how not to make. Apparatus and displays have been getting smaller, the technology becomes ever more complicated."
In handling simple, but highly technically complex to be about the emergency sensor of the future: As a bracelet, measured microscopically fine probe respiration, pulse, sweat, but also sugar and ECG values. Dangerous deviations are reported to an emergency center, the alarm triggers. The trick to the thing: a standardized interface, the data over both Wi-Fi as well as via mobile forwards and thus the carrier can be limitless mobility.
Also, a sensor-equipped girdles, which warns against falls, or a self wheelchair, by nodding and moving obstacles automatically evade, are among the tools of the future. Research is also sought on an emergency assistant for the car, which is about when a stroke of the driver the car will safely stand.
"What makes us hope, is that health insurance companies also come on board and support the project," said Aukes. In addition, it is the German Telekom, Alcatel-Lucent, Siemens, BMW, midsize companies such as Berliner Prisma GmbH, a partner in the housing industry and the service sector, interest groups and research of these and other sub-projects over the next three years to bring to market maturity.
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