Leader: Stefania Bandini (UNIMIB)
Care needs vary across different territorial contexts: demographic trends, access to healthcare, social network composition, social services provision differ at regional and local level. Scarcity of important care infrastructures characterizes inner areas and requires innovative perspectives of development, from territorial care services to new roles of digital technologies (as monitoring activities at distances). Urban areas require the design of age-friendly environments by the adoption of a framework encouraging a healthy ageing of the population through the development of policy actions to secure the accessibility to many services, and mitigating stress to alleviate the care burden. Environmental aspects, which vary significanlty across different areas and regions, may trigger care needs in the older population. Innovative technological facilities (wearable sensors, GIS for territorial analysis, personal digital tools) will mark the transition to new care systems through the synergic activation of new generations of computer-based solutions. A cross-disciplinary approach in the design of innovative care systems for both urban and inner areas allows the development of inclusive tools to converge different knowledge sources towards a sustainable design of person-centered care provision models.