Shaping a Person-Centric eHealth System for an Age-Friendly Community. A Case Study

AUTHOR(S):

Marilena Ianculescu, Alexandru Stanciu, Ovidiu Bica, Vladimir Florian, Gabriel Neagu

TITLE

Shaping a Person-Centric eHealth System for an Age-Friendly Community. A Case Study

ABSTRACT

Continuously global ageing of population puts higher pressure on social and health systems, so it is compulsory to develop improved services and technologies able to address chronic conditions associated with old age. eHealth provides facilities for helping elderly people to continue to live in their own homes for longer, new services that support some treatments or rehabilitation. In this context, the paper gives information about ProActive Ageing project which aims to build up an integrated platform for online services that support the active and independent living of ageing people. The case study presents the ”Centre for Active Ageing” module that implements innovative methods of personal development, knowledge sharing and learning, adapted to the needs, diversity, and understanding of ageing persons. Its implementation solution based on the WordPress content management system and specific integration issues at the ProActive Aging platform level are addressed. Finally an explored solution for identity management using the blockchain technology is put forward.

KEYWORDS

active and independent ageing, eHealth, integrated platform, WordPress, cloud computing, blockchain technology

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Cite this paper

Marilena Ianculescu, Alexandru Stanciu, Ovidiu Bica, Vladimir Florian, Gabriel Neagu. (2016) Shaping a Person-Centric eHealth System for an Age-Friendly Community. A Case Study. International Journal of Computers, 1, 252-258