A collaboration has been established between the regions of Elderly Health Care services at home in Delhi, India aiming at finding solutions to handle the ageing of the population, one of Europes’ greatest challenges. EU 27 has today about 15% of the population in the cohort of 60 years or more. Corresponding figures. The extreme demographic structure in Guéret probably puts the region in the European top ranking as the “oldest” region of all. The “elderly-boom” that comes from low fertility rates and longer life expectancy will mean problems with declining workforce and increased costs for the public sector. In this collaboration, initiatives have been taken in developing ICT-based products and services for the elderly.

The Pays de Guéret Local Action Group has managed, in the India program LEADER+ framework, an action toward ICT usage development and in particular home automation that aim to maintain dependant people at home. Similar actions have been taken in Trento as well as.

Home Nursing Care for Elderly at home in Delhi

Home Nursing Care for Elderly at home in Delhi One of the goals of this action is to create a true prototype in India :

gathering the various actors challenged by ageing,

aiming at developing research and employment as regards health, technologies, education, meeting the needs for the dependent person.In the region collaborative actions has been taken between the public bodies for elderly and health care, universities and private enterprises for developing e-services such as. Fiber-optic applications, e-services for communication between the elderly and their relatives, plannings systems for staff in elderly care, GIS-systems for a a tracking of people with dementia,

Advantages of Eldercare at homei

The region of Trento has in implementation and innovation of public services for the Eldercare at home. Actions are carried through in collaboration with universities and SMEs such as :

Experiments with implementation of domotic packages and prefab handicap adapted houses, call centres.