Smart Homes
Integration of home automation under open standards, including Matter, to support mobility, comfort and environmental safety.
Villa LONGENIA: the future of housing for independent living
A pilot project that turns housing into the backbone of health, autonomy and community inclusion.
What is Villa LONGENIA?
Villa LONGENIA is a residential innovation programme and Living Lab promoted by Fundación LONGENIA. The project proposes an alternative to traditional residential models, allowing older people, people with disabilities and vulnerable groups to live in integrated, adapted community environments equipped with non-invasive technology.
Person-Centred Model
Respect for each person’s wishes, life history and decisions.
Health-Social Prevention
Coordinated home support designed to prevent avoidable situations and enable autonomous living for longer.
Sustainability and Health
Accessible design, energy efficiency, healthy environments and a One Health perspective.
Smart technology for a more autonomous life
Villa LONGENIA’s technological architecture is conceived to integrate non-invasive sensors, environmental automation and interoperable systems that enable safer, more comfortable and more autonomous daily life.
- 01 Housing
- 02 Non-invasive sensors
- 03 Connectivity and interoperability
- 04 Intelligence and automation
- 05 Support and prevention
One Health and community living
Villa LONGENIA starts from a broad vision of health: living well depends not only on healthcare, but also on the environment, social relationships, everyday autonomy and the quality of the space in which we live.
Person
- Autonomy
- Prevention
- Physical activity
- Nutrition
- Emotional wellbeing
Community
- Social relationships
- Participation
- Mutual support
- Intergenerational living
Environment
- Nature
- Environmental quality
- Accessibility
- Energy efficiency
- Integrated technology
From institutional care to community living
Villa LONGENIA explores a model in which support is organised around the person, their home and their community, rather than requiring the person to adapt their life to an institutional structure.
Starting logic
Need for support institution
Villa LONGENIA explores
Person home community technology personalised support
The project is inspired by the transition towards personalised, community-based care models centred on autonomy, in line with Spain’s State Strategy for a new community-care model: a deinstitutionalisation process 2024-2030.
A connected support ecosystem
Villa LONGENIA proposes a support network that can accompany each person over time, from daily life and prevention through to more complex health-social care needs.
- 01 Independent living
- 02 Everyday support
- 03 Prevention
- 04 Community support
- 05 Coordinated health-social care
- 06 Specialised services when needed
The aim is to help people maintain their autonomy and remain integrated in their environment for as long as possible.
Make Villa LONGENIA possible
Advance Villa LONGENIA
Collaborate in the development of a Living Lab for new models of housing, autonomy, technology and community care.
Sponsor Villa LONGENIAContribute to the project
Help advance an environment designed to promote a more autonomous, healthy and connected life.
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