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Report on SHAFE policies, strategies and funding
(SHINE2Europe, 2021) van Staalduinen, Willeke; Dantas, Carina; Illario, Maddalena; Paul, Cosmina; Cieśla, Agnieszka; Seifert, Alexander; Chikalanow, Alexandre; Haj Taieb, Amine; Perandres, Ana; Jaksić Stojanović, Andjela; Ferenczi, Andrea; Grgurić, Andrej; Klimczuk, Andrzej; Moen, Anne; Efthymiou, Areti; Poli, Arianna; Blazeviciene, Aurelija; Rexhepi, Avni; Garcia-Zapirain, Begonya; Benli, Berrin; Huesbp, Bettina; Berry, Damon; Pavlovski, Daniel; Lambotte, Deborah; Guardado, Diana; Todoroi, Dumitru; Shcherbakova, Ekateryna; Voropaev, Evgeny; Naselli, Fabio; Rotaru, Flaviana; Melero, Francisco; Matteo Apuzzo, Gian; Mijatović, Gorana; Marston, Hannah; Kelly, Helen; Belani, Hrvoje; Ljubi, Igor; Modlane Gorgenyi, Ildikó; Baraković Husić, Jasmina; Lumetzberger, Jennifer; Apóstolo, Joao; Deepu, John; Dinsmore, John; van Hoof, Joost; Lubi, Kadi; Valkama, Katja; Yamada, Kazumasa; Martin, Kirstin; Fulgerud, Kristin S.; Lebar, Lea; Lhotska, Lenka; Angelini, Leonardo; Colonna, Liane; Gonzalez López, Lucia; Vidovićova, Lucie; Spiru, Luiza; Diaconu, Mara; Lyubenova, Mariyana; Cimbaljević, Marija; Dzida, Marija; Gosović, Marko; Fernandez, Marta; Kampel, Martin; Nagode, Mateja; Solarević, Milica; Zechner, Minna; Dmitrieva, Natali; Gapanovich-Kaidalov, Nikolai; Ovayolu, Nimet; Joransson, Nina; Durmishi Manahasa, Odeta; Ovayolu, Ozlem; Boland, Pauline; Roseiro, Pedro; Silva, Rosa; Cziker, Roxana Elena; Baraković, Sabina; Tomsone, Signe; Santana, Silvina; Hvalic-Touzery, Simona; Hansen, Sonja; Muller, Sonja; Danschutter, Stefan; Sharshakova, Tamara; Loncar-Turukalo, Tatjana; Vasiljev, Vanja; Lethola, Ville; Alexin, Zoltan
The objective of Working Group (WG) 4 of the COST Action NET4Age-Friendly is to examine existing policies, advocacy, and funding opportunities and to build up relations with policy makers and funding organisations. Also, to synthesize and improve existing knowledge and models to develop from effective business and evaluation models, as well as to guarantee quality and education, proper dissemination and ensure the future of the Action. The Working Group further aims to enable capacity building to improve interdisciplinary participation, to promote knowledge exchange and to foster a cross-European interdisciplinary research capacity, to improve cooperation and co-creation with cross-sectors stakeholders and to introduce and educate students SHAFE implementation and sustainability (CB01, CB03, CB04, CB05). To enable the achievement of the objectives of Working Group 4, the Leader of the Working Group, the Chair and Vice-Chair, in close cooperation with the Science Communication Coordinator, developed a template (see annex 1) to map the current state of SHAFE policies, funding opportunities and networking in the COST member countries of the Action. On invitation, the Working Group lead received contributions from 37 countries, in a total of 85 Action members. The contributions provide an overview of the diversity of SHAFE policies and opportunities in Europe and beyond. These were not edited or revised and are a result of the main areas of expertise and knowledge of the contributors; thus, gaps in areas or content are possible and these shall be further explored in the following works and reports of this WG. But this preliminary mapping is of huge importance to proceed with the WG activities. In the following chapters, an introduction on the need of SHAFE policies is presented, followed by a summary of the main approaches to be pursued for the next period of work. The deliverable finishes with the opportunities of capacity building, networking and funding that will be relevant to undertake within the frame of Working Group 4 and the total COST Action. The total of country contributions is presented in the annex of this deliverable.
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State of the art on ethical, legal, and social issues linked to audio- and video-based AAL solutions
(University of Alicante, 2021) Ake-Kob, Alin; Blazeviciene, Aurelija; Colonna, Liane; Cartolovni, Anto; Dantas, Carina; Fedosov, Anton; Florez-Revuelta, Francisco; Fosch-Villaronga, Eduard; He, Zhicheng; Klimczuk, Andrzej; Kuźmicz, Maksymilian; Lukacs, Adrienn; Lutz, Christoph; Mekovec, Renata; Miguel, Cristina; Mordini, Emilio; Pajalic, Zada; Pierscionek, Barbara Krystyna; Jose Santofimia Romero, Maria; AliSalah, Albert; Sobecki, Andrzej; Solanas, Agusti; Tamo-Larrieux, Aurelia; Nord University, Norway; Lithuanian University of Health Sciences; Swedish Law and Informatics Research Institute, Stockholm University, Sweden; Digital healthcare ethics laboratory (Digit-HeaL), Catholic University of Croatia; SHINE 2Europe; University of Zurich, Switzerland; University of Alicante, Spain; eLaw Center for Law and Digital Technologies, Leiden University, The Netherlands; SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Poland; University of Szeged, Hungary; Nordic Centre for Internet and Society, BI Norwegian Business School, Norway; Faculty of organization and informatics, University of Zagreb, Croatia; Department of Applied Information Technology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden; NORIA, France; Faculty of Health Studies, VID Specialized University, Oslo, Norway; Faculty of Health, Education, Medicine and Social Care, Anglia Ruskin University, Chelmsford, United Kingdom; University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain; Utrecht University, The Netherlands; Boğaziçi University, Turkey; Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland; Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain; University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Ambient assisted living (AAL) technologies are increasingly presented and sold as essential smart additions to daily life and home environments that will radically transform the healthcare and wellness markets of the future. An ethical approach and a thorough understanding of all ethics in surveillance/monitoring architectures are therefore pressing. AAL poses many ethical challenges raising questions that will affect immediate acceptance and long-term usage. Furthermore, ethical issues emerge from social inequalities and their potential exacerbation by AAL, accentuating the existing access gap between high-income countries (HIC) and low and middle-income countries (LMIC). Legal aspects mainly refer to the adherence to existing legal frameworks and cover issues related to product safety, data protection, cybersecurity, intellectual property, and access to data by public, private, and government bodies. Successful privacy-friendly AAL applications are needed, as the pressure to bring Internet of Things (IoT) devices and ones equipped with artificial intelligence (AI) quickly to market cannot overlook the fact that the environments in which AAL will operate are mostly private (e.g., the home). The social issues focus on the impact of AAL technologies before and after their adoption. Future AAL technologies need to consider all aspects of equality such as gender, race, age and social disadvantages and avoid increasing loneliness and isolation among, e.g. older and frail people. Finally, the current power asymmetries between the target and general populations should not be underestimated nor should the discrepant needs and motivations of the target group and those developing and deploying AAL systems. Whilst AAL technologies provide promising solutions for the health and social care challenges, they are not exempt from ethical, legal and social issues (ELSI). A set of ELSI guidelines is needed to integrate these factors at the research and development stage.
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Building Smart Healthy Inclusive Environments for All Ages with Citizens
(Springer International Publishing, 2021) van Staalduinen, Willeke; Dantas, Carina; van Hoof, Joost; Klimczuk, Andrzej; AFEdemy, Academy on Age-Friendly Environments in Europe BV, Gouda, The Netherlands; SHINE 2Europe Lda, Coimbra, Portugal; Hague University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands; Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Poland; SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Poland
The paper provides an introduction to the public discourse around the notion of smart healthy inclusive environments. First, the basic ideas are explained and related to citizen participation in the context of implementation of a “society for all ages” concept disseminated by the United Nations. Next, the text discusses selected initiatives of the European Commission in the field of intergenerational programming and policies as well as features of the COST Action NET4Age-Friendly: Smart Healthy Age-Friendly Environments (SHAFE). The following sections are focused on studying and discussing examples of projects and methodologies that have been aimed at: empowering facilitators of smart healthy inclusive environments, empowering citizens to deal with health emergencies, and supporting older people’s voices. The conclusion covers selected recommendations for entities of public policy on ageing (ageing policy) as well as potential directions for further research.
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Introductory Chapter: Demographic Analysis
(IntechOpen, 2021) Klimczuk, Andrzej; SGH Warsaw School of Economics
Demography is typically defined as the study of human populations and the changes in their quantity associated with migration, fertility, and mortality. The term demography comes from Greek word and means “describing people.” Thus, this discipline deals with the characteristics of the population, taking into account features such as, sex ratio, age structure, composition, spatial distribution, and population density. In addition, sometimes a distinction is made between “formal demography” or “demographic analysis,” which includes the statistical analysis of population parameters and their dynamics, and “population studies,” that is, the analysis of the causes and effects of changes in the structure of the population in a broader context and in connection with other phenomena and processes.
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Pandemia COVID-19 z perspektywy teorii ryzyka
(Dom Wydawniczy Elipsa, 2021) Klimczuk, Andrzej; Szkoła Główna Handlowa w Warszawie
Artykuł przedstawia przegląd wybranych powiązań pandemii COVID-19 z teoriami ryzyka. Opracowanie w pierwszej kolejności omawia podstawowe pojęcia dotyczące przygotowania i mobilizowania sieci podmiotów polityki publicznej do wspólnych działań w warunkach niepewności. W dalszej części omówiono zagadnienie gotowości na ryzyko wystąpienia pandemii i jej zwalczania. Następnie przedstawiono wybrane możliwe efekty społeczne, gospodarcze i polityczne pandemii COVID-19. W podsumowaniu wskazane zostały rekomendacje dotyczące zarządzania podmiotami publicznymi na dalszych etapach rozwoju pandemii i w okresie po pandemii oraz propozycje dalszych kierunków badań.