The SEHTA InnoHub is a partnership bringing together experts on one hand from ambient assisted living and on the other hand from smart houses. Partners in the InnoHub already include Smart Homes and Buildings Association (SHBA), Housing Leaning and Improvement Network (HLIN),Built Environment Foresight Group, UCL and Habinteg Housing Association.
The aim is to strengthen the knowledge transfer activities between those sectors and to look for convergence of priorities to support the development of eco-innovation and smart homes for the elderly.
The first task of the InnoHub is to assemble evidence in the form of case studies of the integration of housing and care, to develop the business and benefits case for the convergence and to identify relevant policy links.
The SEHTA InnoHub will also operate transnationally in cooperation with the 14 other Hubs to be established on the same topics in Innovage Partner countries.
For more information on the other Hubs please click here
INNOVAge and CASA look at the complex issues that arise from demographic ageing and the many challenges that the future poses on European senior care. The projects aim at finding sustainable, innovative and practical solutions that enable longer independent living, an economically feasible care for seniors and totally new ways of thinking about the structuring of senior care by using innovative methodologies. The projects also give opportunities for innovative companies to develop new tools and services. In particular:
CASA is about the development of regional policy and the exchange of knowledge around the up scaling of innovative ICT and services for independent living. Demographic changes make it necessary to organise the care and housing of senior citizens and chronically ill in a smarter way including the use of ICT. This also gives opportunities for innovative companies to develop new tools and services.
UK INNOhub – Dr Richard Curry, e-health Development Director, SEHTA – 
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