creators_name: Bennis, C.
creators_name: McGrath, D.
creators_name: Caulfield, B.
creators_name: Knapp, R. Benjamin
creators_name: Coghlan, Niall
creators_id: ben.knapp@casala.ie
creators_id: niall.coghlan@dkit.ie
type: conference_item
datestamp: 2012-12-05 14:12:03
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title: A Common Awareness and Knowledge Platform for Studying and Enabling Independent Living – CAPSIL

ispublished: submitted
subjects: subject_arts
subjects: subject_elderly
subjects: subject_music
full_text_status: public
pres_type: paper
keywords: Ageing; Healthcare; ICT; Independent living; CAPSIL Monitoring systems; Pervasive Health; Policy; Software; Telemedicine; Wiki; Wireless Networks

abstract: The population of the world is growing older, and the
balance of old to young is shifting so that by 2050 over
30% of the population is expected to be over 60 years
old[1], with particularly high ratios of old to young in
the EU, USA and Japan. CAPSIL is an FP7
Coordinating Support Action that incorporates a
strategic international coalition of University and
Industrial partners that already have extensive teams
developing hardware/software/knowledge solutions to
independent living based on user requirements. CAPSIL
has two fundamental goals:
1. To carry out an analysis of the state of the art
with regards to technology, healthcare and public policy
in the EU, US and Japan for enabling independent living
for older adults. Based on this analysis, develop a
detailed roadmap for EU research to achieve
effective and sustainable solutions for independent living
2. To support aging research by proposing procedures to incorporate all of these diverse solutions into WiKi entries (CAPSIL WiKi). It is our hope that these CAPSIL WiKi’s will enable researchers and the ICT industry to get the information they need to quickly and easily test solutions for prolonging independent living within the many and various heterogeneous communities.
In this paper we will summarise the principal findings of the CAPSIL Roadmap and present an overview of the main research gaps and recommendations for policy and research development. Finally, we will introduce the CAPSIL WiKi infrastructure.

date: 2010-03
date_type: submitted
event_title: AGEmap 2010 - Workshop on Roadmaps towards a strategic research agenda for ICT in active ageing
event_location: Munich, Germany
event_dates: 22 March 2010
event_type: workshop
refereed: TRUE
citation:   Bennis, C. and McGrath, D. and Caulfield, B. and Knapp, R. Benjamin and Coghlan, Niall  (2010) A Common Awareness and Knowledge Platform for Studying and Enabling Independent Living – CAPSIL.  In: AGEmap 2010 - Workshop on Roadmaps towards a strategic research agenda for ICT in active ageing, 22 March 2010, Munich, Germany.    (Submitted)  
document_url: http://eprints.dkit.ie/274/1/2010Bennis_et_al-CAPSIL.pdf