Reactive telecare
Responds mainly after an incident has already occurred.
Usually depends on direct action by the person to request help.
Focuses especially on emergency management.
LONGENIA Care
Better care means caring earlier. LONGENIA Care proposes a preventive-support model combining telehealth, non-invasive monitoring and health-social care coordination to help people live with greater safety and autonomy in their own environment.
What is LONGENIA Care?
LONGENIA Care is a Fundación LONGENIA initiative focused on preventive health monitoring and home-care coordination. Its approach extends the traditional reactive telecare model through continuous support capable of identifying relevant changes in health, mobility and daily routines.
The aim is not to replace carers or healthcare professionals, but to enable earlier intervention, better coordination and greater peace of mind for individuals and their families.
From reactive telecare to preventive support
LONGENIA Care starts from a simple idea: care should not begin only when an emergency occurs. Preventive monitoring makes it possible to recognise relevant changes earlier and facilitate a more coordinated response.
Preventive support
Observes relevant changes before they can become a crisis.
Integrates information on health, mobility and daily routines.
Facilitates a coordinated response between the person, their family and professionals.
From reacting to an emergency to accompanying people before it happens.
An integrated support model
LONGENIA Care integrates preventive monitoring, health-social care coordination and family support within a single accompaniment model.
Non-invasive monitoring
Monitoring of relevant indicators of health, rest, mobility and everyday activity through technologies designed to blend discreetly into daily life.
Alerts and preventive support
Identification of significant changes in usual patterns to facilitate early intervention when necessary.
Health-social care coordination
Connection between the person, their family, health-social care professionals and home-care services to support a coordinated response.
Support for families and carers
Guidance on dependency, benefits, care resources and the everyday organisation of care.
How does LONGENIA Care work?
An integrated view of LONGENIA Care’s preventive monitoring model, monitored areas, technological ecosystem and framework for action.
Priority groups and scope of application
LONGENIA Care starts from a fundamental ethical principle: technology capable of protecting the most vulnerable people is ready to protect everyone.
The priority groups in the initial phase of the project are:
- Older people living with dependency or chronic age-related diseases who wish to maintain their autonomy and safety in their own home.
- People with intellectual and developmental disabilities, for whom conventional telecare systems are inadequate because they require initiative or an understanding of complex interfaces.
- Older people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, who accumulate the needs of both groups and are especially vulnerable to technological neglect.
The initial scope of the project is Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, in collaboration with Third Sector organisations specialised in supporting these groups.
The system architecture is designed to be extensible to other high-vulnerability contexts: isolated rural environments, facilities in remote areas and, as a long-range application, space-exploration environments, where autonomy in the care system is a condition of survival.
Technology in service of people
The use of data in LONGENIA Care starts from a simple principle: technology must support better care decisions without replacing human judgement.
Privacy by design
The processing of personal and health information must follow criteria of minimisation, security and access control, in accordance with the applicable European framework for data protection and digital health.
Human supervision
Signals generated by technological systems serve as support for professional assessment and coordination, not as an automatic replacement for human decisions.
Transparency and consent
People must be able to know what information is collected, for what purpose it is used and who can access it.
Request information about LONGENIA Care
This form allows preliminary enquiries about LONGENIA Care and its Predictive Telecare and Care Management model.