LOSER, is an innovative Ambient Assisted Living product, enabling at-home care services at affordable costs for senior people. Its main features are Emergency Detection, Motion Aware Physical State Tracking & Rehabilitation and Social Connectivity. Closer is powered by a depth sensor at home and complex proprietary data analytical capabilities on the cloud. It brings elderly people Closer to life by improving their safety, health and connection to their beloved ones and society in general.
Closer directly targets the enhancement of senior people’s health, wellness and social life, assists them in their daily life without the continuous surveillance of a caretaker on site. Closer tunes itself to the specific individual traits of the elderly such as age, gender, health condition thanks to its dynamic nature and without compromising the elderly’s personal privacy
Closer is powered by a depth sensor at home and complex proprietary data analytical capabilities on the cloud. Closer directly targets the enhancement of senior people’s health, wellness and social life, assists them in their daily life without the continuous surveillance of a caretaker on site. Existing solutions on the market provide either simple monitoring through intrusive cameras or emergency detection through a basic emergency response button. The rehabilitation oriented products are mostly complicated devices that are beyond most seniors’ ability to use on their own.
Novelty of CLOSER is that it is the most comprehensive, all-in-one solution on the market to effectively combine:
Family members and caregivers can monitor their loved-one’s daily activity, such as how much time is spent where and doing what. At a specific time, what is he/she physically doing; walking, lying or standing etc.
Movement frequency, movement rate and heart beat is monitored and statistical information is kept to be analyzed and used for the preparation of the content of the telerehabilitation.
The data collected combined with daily activity patterns is processed through our algorithm to generate a recommended diagnostic output in real time. Smart algorithms allow individual planning of the trainings and exercises for each person, in addition to generating reports of the results of treatment.
Closer is a safety framework that provides a more complete view of a loved one’s well-being, and delivers automatic, real-time alerts. Unlike a PERS (Personal Emergency Response) button, Closer does not rely on the individual to take an action or remember to keep the button with them. Moreover, inactivity alerts or unusual activity patterns will cause an emergency alert.
Closer is designed to aid the rehabilitation process, and track patients’ progress at home. It improves coordination, balance, muscle strength and range of motion– the number of applications may get bigger with system updates.
The enriched information gathered by analyzing the physical data is passed to the physical therapist. Thus, the physical therapist can adjust the rehabilitation needs in real time and customize the therapy to the patient’s personal needs.
Physical therapist is able to connect to the patient through the internet and give regular check-in and guided exercise sessions. This ensures patient rehabilitation at home is supervised, monitored and documented by ease.
Closer always knows your heart rate through the depth sensor. Any problem about your heart rate and rhythm will be reported immediately
You can ask for help in case of an emergency situation just with a simple hand gesture.
Closer will be looking for your safety. If you fall down, your relatives / care-taker / health center will know about it.
Closer learn your daily behaviours and movement patterns. If it identifies any abnormal behaviour it will warn the relevant people.
Your health spacialist will assign daily exercises you need to do using Closer.
We will know if you are standing, sitting, lying or how much you have walked during the day. Your daily activity level will be determined each day.
Closer will know everything your movements. Your joints and muscles will be tracked while doing the exercises and also in your daily life.
All the data collected, from your activity level to joint angles, will be analyzed using complex techniques and algorithms. The valuable results will be reported to the experts.
You will be in touch with the society using Closer. It will also enable you and your friends to organize events that you will enjoy.
If you need to talk to your therapist about any problem you have, you can use Closer, it will bring home any help you need.
Thanks to Closer's extremely elder-friendly interface, you can connect to your relatives or friends.
Your pyhsio therapist or yourself can arrange group exercises. That enables you to connect with others and motivate yourself while doing the exercises.
There are 530.5 million people over 65s around the world; 174 million in Europe and North America. Care needs vary by country, but a conservative average is 20% of this group, i.e. 100 million in the whole World and 35 million only in Europe and North America needs care.
A number of qualitative trends are also observable: seniors are demanding more independence; they increasingly prefer to live at home, rather than in a facility; they are more tech savvy than their predecessors too. Children’s propensity to provide full-time care for their parents is reducing as well.
The global elder care services market is categorized based on various types of services. The market has been segmented into adult day care, home care and institutional care. Adult day care is a planned program of activities designed to promote elder care though social and health-related services. It provides services through adult day care centers. Home care services are provided by close family members.
Family members may include children, spouse, grandchildren and relatives. Institutional care is a type of treatment provided by institutes, which includes hospitals and government social care centers.
