Helping seniors lead an active and healthy life
Although retired seniors have time resources and could become active supporters. Also seniors may not to be involved in active living because they feel insecure in the constantly changing urban environment, in the lack of easily accessible means of transport.
Technology-supported personal assistance with integration of EGNSS encourages seniors to start new endeavours, to reach a new destination and to engage in activities helping other people. It also increases seniors’ self-confidence and enjoying life by increasing social contacts. This is crucial for maintaining mental health and has also great influence on their body health. Additionally, the possibility of helping others creates opportunity to earn money to expand seniors’ limited retirement budgets what is a one of the goal of the SHOW service. The SHOW application also provides easy access to information on healthcare and rehabilitation centres, cultural and sport events as well as facilitates the organisation of groups.
The first user group targeted by SHOW are seniors who want to lead an active life and are familiar with in using technical equipment. The application is dedicated to elderly people who want to make new experience and have the desire and ability to provider their help to others. The targeted senior group are retired seniors between 55 and 65 year old who want to make use of their free time in an advantageous way, e.g. by devoting more time to help others.
The second user group are people in need. For this target group no age range is defined, but the users are persons which have specific needs that seniors could satisfy.
The third user group are entrepreneurs interested to reach the seniors as a “selling target”. The application provides information on places “friendly for seniors”, such as doctors, pharmacies, shops, cafes, and restaurants. This group of users includes entities that welcome seniors and advertise their businesses or locations as “friendly places/products for seniors”.
The SHOW application is relying on the integration and utilisation of EGNSS as space asset. On one side, it allows to determine the destination of a person requesting help, on the other side, it supports the person willing to provide help through advise on the optimum travel route to the destination, thereby providing information on possible means of transport, arrival time and environmental conditions.