Healthy Lifestyle Habits Promotion to Improve Elderly People Health

The GATEKEEPER project, funded by the European Commission's HORIZON 2020 innovation framework, aims to ensure healthier independent living for ageing populations. To this end, GATEKEEPER aims to develop an open, European-wide, standards-based, interoperable and secure platform, available to all stakeholders (healthcare professionals, technology companies and users), offering digital solutions on the Internet of Things, Big Data or Artificial Intelligence, or new techniques, for early detection and personalised interventions to ensure healthier independent living for ageing populations. GATEKEEPER will demonstrate its value by scaling up innovative solutions, during a 48-month work plan that will involve 40.000 elderly citizens, as well as authorities, institutions, companies, associations and academic centres from 8 pilot regions in 7 EU Member States. The pilots sites will deploy and demonstrate the effect, benefit, value and scalability of GATEKEEPER solutions around reference use cases covering primary, secondary and terciary prevention in the Basque Country (Spain), Aragon (Spain), Attica and Central Greece (Greece), Cyprus (Cyprus), Lodz (Poland), Milton Keynes (UK), Puglia (Italy) and Saxony (Germany). The Basque Country pilot site is involved in the Reference Use Cases focused to "Lifestyle-related early detection". The intervention aims to encourage active and healthy ageing by the use of a self-managed mobile application, thereby to enhance independence, autonomy and improve the well-being of older people, promoting their physical, cognitive and mental activity and social participation. This quasi-experimental and longitudinal study is target to 10,000 older people and/or their caregivers from the Basque Country region. A multi-channel and community-based recruitment strategy at Basque regional level has been designed that involves 39 community-based organizations from the Basque Health Ecosystem.