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As we enter our final months, the PROCare4Life consortium had an incredibly positive and constructive meeting with reviewers from the European Commission to report on our outcomes and discuss how we will bring our project to a strong conclusion. As a Horizon 2020-funded project, PROCare4Life is a part of the EU’s strategy to deliver better…

In recent days, the family of actor Bruce Willis announced that he had been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia. In this brave announcement which has brought worldwide awareness and attention to this condition, the Willis family spoke about learning to live as full a life as possible with the disease. While there is currently no cure…

On Thursday February 16th, 2023, PROCare4Life will host a public event in Milan to share some of the knowledge gathered as part of our project. The event will focus on the topic of digital integrated care in neurological disease, one of the main focuses of PROCare4Life. It coincides with a project meeting for our consortium,…

October 1st was the International Day of Older Persons, and this year’s theme was ‘The Resilience and Contributions of Older Women. To celebrate the amazing women taking part in the PROCare4Life pilots around Europe, we have created a Wall of Fame, where asked a them about their achievements and how digital solutions can help them…

Every year since 1994, the week of September 21st has been used to raise awareness about Alzheimer’s disease. Dementia affects around 35 million people worldwide, two-thirds of them in developing countries. By 2050, the number is expected to rise to 115 million. Here you see what our ProCare4Life partners have done in their home countries…

At the end of June, PROCare4Life consortium partners Kinetikos, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, and Maastricht University participated in the “AI and Sensor-Supported Integrated Care Solutions (ASSIST)” workshop during the 15th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA). This was an excellent opportunity for the team to share the technological developments of…

The theme of this year’s World Brain Day is ‘Brain Health For All’. Globally, our brains are being challenged by many stressors, including pandemics, wars, climate change and a myriad of disorders impacting our existence as humans. These issues can be even more challenging for older people and people with neurodegenerative diseases. This year’s World…

PROCare4Life project partners Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (WWU) have written some practical tips for older adults to maintain healthy physical activity. Whatever your age, it is never too late to be more active and enjoy the benefits of physical activity. Not only is physical activity fun, it also can help you socialize more, supports your mental…

The team from the Wohlfahrtswerk für Baden-Württemberg (WBW) is increasingly involved in public relations, especially for the acquisition of participants for the third and final pilot phase of our project and the associated large-scale study. In order to inform older people in our catchment area about the project and, in the best case, for them…

  We are well into the third year of the PROCare4Life project! Progress in these last months has been significant, as we received the results from the first round of Pilot 2 which started in November 2021. In addition to the particular issues that the still-ongoing restrictions and mindsets that the COVID-19 pandemic has brought…