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  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…

World Parkinson’s Day was first celebrated on April 11th, 1997. The date April 11th was chosen in honor of Dr. James Parkinson’s birthday, the first person to describe the disease that bears his name in 1817. Today, over 60 countries around the world participate to raise awareness of Parkinson’s disease. Check out how the user…

“Greetings to all people with Parkinson’s disease in Spain and to all the countries participating in this project.” E.G.V Monday 11th April 2021 marks World Parkinson’s Day– an annual coming together to raise awareness and funds to improve life with Parkinson’s. As part of the month’s awareness raising activities, project partners and Madrid Pilot site Parkinson…

March celebrated World Sleep Day! World Sleep Day is a global awareness act that celebrates sleep and aims to help those with serious sleep problems. Celebrated on the Friday before Spring Vernal Equinox of each year, this holiday has an annual 155 events held across the world and is participated by over 70 countries. The…

The 28th of January is Data Privacy Day. It is an educational initiative originally focused on raising awareness among both businesses and personal users about the importance of protecting the privacy of personal information online, particularly in the context of social networking. This educational focus has grown after some years to include other fields, like…

And suddenly 24 months have passed since PROCare4Life started. We are happy with what we have achieved. The project progressed positively, albeit more slowly than planned, given the added challenges brought by the COVID-19 pandemic that has accompanied the project almost from the beginning. Still, the PROCare4Life consortium has maintained a resilient and positive attitude…

Do you remember we told you we were creating an animation series for the project! The communications team, led by IFIC, have developed a compelling series of animated videos to successfully help in the dissemination of the PROCare4Life project. The objective of the animations is to outline the PROCare4Life project in a comprehensible means and…

How is PROCare4Life PILOT 1 doing? Preliminary results are in! The main objective of PROCare4Life pilots is to deploy the PROCare4Life platform and verify its technical use and acceptance. Currently our project is completing the first of three pilot phases with about 200 users already actively involved in testing the partially integrated solution in the…

SIMAVI team has recently finalised a report that demonstrates how users can work with the PROCare4Life platform in order to communicate with each other- patients, relatives, caregivers, social and health care professionals. The solution has incorporated a set of services that will enhance the user experience of the app. As patients need to stay in…

ASSIST: 1st International Workshop on AI and Sensor-Supported Integrated care Solutions will be held June 29-July 2nd! Advances in Artificial Intelligence and sensing technologies have made it possible to build intelligent solutions aimed at improving our daily life, at providing personalized recommendations in terms of physical and cognitive exercises, nutrition, and general activities promoting health…