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CAPSIL EU Support Action

International Support of a Common Awareness and Knowledge Platform for Studying and Enabling Independent Living

The aging of society is the single most important aspect of health care in the 21st century. Many intriguing ICT solutions are being developed within the EU, USA, and Japan for helping older people remain independent longer. However, these solutions tend to be fragmented and heterogeneous. The CAPSIL Coordinating Support Action (CSA) team is a strategic international coalition of University and Industrial partners that already have extensive teams developing hardware/software/knowledge solutions to independent living based on user requirements. All partners of CAPSIL are already members of regional and national centres on aging engaged in the process of helping to establish public policy and international standards. This support action is to launch initiatives, coordinated and disseminated by a series of workshops in the US, EU, and Japan (two per year for two years), with three fundamental goals:

  • to develop a detailed CAPSIL Roadmap for EU research to achieve effective and sustainable solutions to independent living based on an in-depth analysis of independent living requirements and the ICT scenarios developed or under development in the EU, as well as the US and Japan (societies where the aging of the population are currently on par or exceeding the challenges that will be found within the EU).
  • to support aging research by proposing procedures to incorporate all of these diverse solutions into WiKi entries (CAPSIL WiKi). These CAPSILs will enable researchers and the ICT industry to get the information they need to quickly and easily test solutions for prolonging independent living within the many and various heterogeneous communities. Only with this knowledge will the relevance and efficacy of technological solutions be maintained and be empowered with the capability to be adapted for various cultures.
  • to use the CAPSIL Roadmap and the CAPSIL Workshops to help policy makers in the US and Japan coordinate research agendas and funding efforts across the three continents.



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CAPSIL Coordinator News

  • The National Institute on Aging (NIA) USA 6 Aug 2008 | 2:26 am

    NIANIA, one of the 27 Institutes and Centers of NIH, leads a broad scientific effort to understand the nature of aging and to extend the healthy, active years of life. NIA’s mission is to improve the health and well-being of older Americans through research, and specifically, to support and conduct high-quality research on, Aging processes, Age-related diseases, Special problems and needs of the aged.

  • Involving Older People in Research: A Guide for Researchers and Community Groups 31 Jul 2008 | 7:45 am

    The Network and the Australasian Centre on Ageing (ACA) at the University of Queensland have produced a guide for involving older people in research. The Guide is a product of an ongoing program of work within the Network in Ageing Well and builds on a series of workshops held in 2006-2007. The Guide is intended to assist researchers, older people, community and peak organisations to work together to achieve positive outcomes from research on ageing. It provides some practical tips on how working together can help make a difference to the lives of older people. A copy of is available here.

  • 2nd CAPSIL Meeting Tokyo 29 Jul 2008 | 3:55 am

    The CAPSIL consortium members are currently gathering in Tokyo for our second CAPSIL Workshop to be held in Waseda University on July 30/31. Each CAPSIL meeting will have an increasingly expansive set of objectives in order to involve the entire independent living community from all three regions (US, Japan, and EU), in the process of developing our roadmap and instantiating CAPSILs.

    Professor Hashimoto has been instrumental in the planning and coordination for this event. Included we have a visit to the Waseda University Joint Institution for Advanced Biomedical Sciences along with policy, funding and independant living research presentations from, Prof. Toshiyo Tamura (Chiba University), Mr. Dai Hiyama (Yamatake Co.), Mr. Tatsuya Yamazaki (NICT), Mr. Kunihiko Niwa (JST/CRDS). During this two day workshop the members of the consortium will also update each other on their progress with instantiating CAPSILs, knowledge dissimination and general roadmap work.