Context
Rapidly aging European population poses significant challenges to both society and the economy. As individuals age, rates of chronic illness, mental health conditions, disability, and frailty increase, leading to substantial individual and societal costs.
Recent studies highlight a concerning rise in dementia prevalence across the EU, with evidence suggesting that dementia pathology begins years before clinical symptoms appear.
Adressing the gap
Timely diagnosis is crucial in dementia care, yet there exists a gap in integrated knowledge and fragmented healthcare data, hindering comprehensive risk factor analysis and personalized interventions. Current healthcare approaches often adopt a generalized strategy, failing to account for individual differences in genetics, lifestyle, and environmental factors.
COMFORTage endeavors to drive meaningful change in dementia and frailty care across Europe through the development of holistic and integrated healthcare models tailored to age-related mental and physical diseases and disorders individuals’ needs.
COMFORTage’s innovative framework
Key pillars
1
Digital Health Europe
Integrating and positioning the project into the Digital Health Europe (DHE)
2
European Health Data Space
Integrating the project’s Ageing-EHDS with the European Health Data Space
3
European Communities
Integrating COMFORTage outcomes and tools within Europeans communities
4
Stakeholders
Engaging with relevant stakeholders within the pilots and attracting stakeholders from their sectors
5
Empowered and improved health & digital literacy
Establishment of a hybrid user-centric training and educational toolkit to raise the awareness and engagement of the patients with their HCPs and care providers
6
Engaging data providers spaces and marketing
Engaging data providers, data spaces and data marketplaces towards expanding the COMFORTage tools and training marketplace
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Socioeconomical impact assessment
Showcasing socioeconomical benefits of the digitally enabled community-based care plans
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General public
Enhancing trust of the general public, healthcare organizations and SMEs
What COMFORTage offers?
COMFORTage is a four-year project funded through the European Unión´s Horizon Europe Programme involving 39 organisations from 12 countries. The project will conclude in December 2027, and it will be expected to involved:
COMFORTage represents a pioneering effort to address the complex challenges of aging populations, dementia and frailty. By combining clinical expertise, technological innovation and community engagement, ComfortAge aims to improve the quality of life for individuals while advancing the field of personalized healthcare intervention and prevention and establish a pan-European framework for community-based prevention and intervention strategies to facilitate effective lifestyle changes.
The innovative approach of COMFORTage is based on:
- Development of a Virtualized AI-Based Healthcare Platform (VHP) to centralize AI resources for risk factor analysis, early diagnosis, and personalized decision-making.
- Combination of person-centred & evidence based innovations and personalized solutions:
- Medical/clinical innovative interventions.
- AI (serious games, Patient Digital Twins, Virtual Assistive Technologies).
- Digital Innovation Hubs (Smart Homes, robotics and Living Labs).
- Prevention at younger age groups (will reduce future dementia risk).
- Digital expertise among medical devices, analyses, etc.
- Personalized plans based on support healthy and active lives.
- Social innovations for promoting innovative views and co-creating new or improved solutions for assistance.
