Towards integrated and personalised dementia and frailty care in Europe

ComfortAge represents a pioneering effort to address the challenges of population ageing, dementia and frailty. Through the combination of clinical experience, technological innovation and the involvement of the community, the project aims to improve people’s quality of life and advance in the field of intervention and personalized prevention in the field of socio-health care, putting in place a pan-European framework with community prevention and intervention strategies that facilitate positive and effective lifestyle changes.

In the field of clinical innovation, the project will conduct research studies to determine risk factors and be able to make personalised prediction, analyse AI-based medical devices and integrated data sources of age-related clinical evidence, and perform tests based on sanitary technology assessment. It will also have working groups focused on cutting edge innovation, which will focus on explainable artificial intelligence projects, serious games, digital twins of patients and virtual assistance technologies. All to be able to facilitate the making of reliable, precise, safe and personalised clinical decisions.

To facilitate and promote research activities in the field of health and well-being, the project will also promote hubs of digital innovation, with home automation projects (smart men), robotics and Living Labs. Finally, it will foster social innovations to co-create solutions to assist and improve social integration and interaction.

The project is composed of 39 organisations coming from research centres, universities, entities in the field of health and social assistance, associations, non-profit foundations, and technological and legal companies from 12 European countries. The project has a duration of four years and a budget of €17 million of the Horizon Europe programme under the call HORIZON-HLTH-2023-STAYHLTH-01.