1. Co-creating IoT Ecosystems for
Active and Healthy Ageing
AAL-FORUM 2018, Bilbao, Wednesday,
September 26th
AAL-JP: AAL-2015-2-115 H2020: IOT-LSP #732679
Itziar Álvarez-Lombardía | R+D+I Manager | Grupo SSI

2. • Cooperative group created in Bilbao in 1986
• Integrated by non-profit organisations, formed by nearly 500 female workers
• Committed to the social needs of the elderly and their families in the Basque Country
• With 4 departments:
• Social services offered to over 2.200 beneficiaries in 17 municipalities
• Home Care Lab, R&D unit, created in 2011, with a living lab (ENoLL), 21 projects, strategic
line the technological based social and health assistance
Grupo SSI
Social intervention Innovation Training Employment
www.grupossi.es @grupo_ssi

3. Demand of
health & social
services
Basque Country
Global population ≥65 years old
2.2. M 21,7% in 2017
(INE, 2017)
29,2% in 2031
(INE, 2017)
80% at least one chronic disease
(Encuesta de Salud de la Comunidad Autónoma del País Vasco, 2013)
48,3% limitations in the IADL
(Informe Anual del Sistema Nacional de Salud, 2016)
74,5% of old women lives alone
(Gobierno Vasco, 2018)
Sustainability?

4. User case 1
Who I am?
• Edurne
• 75 years old
• Living alone
• Rheumatoid arthritis
• Cognitively preserved
• Still independent but some
difficulties with IADL
• Two sons, but they live far
• Feeling of lonely

5. User case 1
What I need?
• Support with IADL (supply of
daily products, heavy cleanings
& repairs)
• Strength social network
How can technology help me?
• Provide information
• Increase contact with her sons
• Expand social network
• Activate agents in her community
• Prevent dependency

6. User case 2
Who am I?
• Ignacio
• 81 years old
• Living alone
• Diabetes & heart failure
• Cognitively preserved
• Limited mobility
• Two daughters

7. User case 2
What I need?
‒ Empowerment
‒ Coordinated professionals
‒ Home centred care
‒ Prevention of complications
and detection of new or
progressive symptoms
How can technology help me?
‒ Accessible educational and self-care
material
‒ Shared information & remote
communication
‒ Providing multiple channels for access to
the systems, e-prescription
‒ Gathering health and social data with
alerts and warnings

8. Basque Country
Thank you!
Eskerrik asko!