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The essence of active ageing is embracing a healthy lifestyle, a choice that reflects on many aspects of a citizen’s everyday life and routine, namely consumption and nutrition patterns, physical activity and stress management. Such a choice would effectuate a decrease in the risk of obesity, diabetes, dementia and other non-communicable diseases. Cardiovascular diseases and cancer are the dominant causes of avoidable deaths for people under 70 years old in Europe. Promoting and upkeeping health by integrating preventive practices in the daily lives of citizens is deemed a priority if not an urgency by policy makers. Modern technology and ICT tools are most valuable allies in this battle providing effective low-cost solutions. MeAct facilitates personalized and non-invasive guidance and encouragement in the direction of a healthier lifestyle. The approach introduced is a service-oriented, low-cost and easy-to-use integrated system, which, on the one hand, empowers and motivates citizens towards healthy and active living, while on the other hand, delineates the profile of their lives in terms of quality.
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This research has been co-financed by the European Union and Greek national funds, the Regional Operational Program “Western Greece 2014–2020”, under the Call “Financial Strengthening research development and innovation projects in the priority area of RIS3 –ICT” (project: 5038641 entitled “Integrated ICT” - based Active Living Support System “MeACT”).
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Gialelis, J., Tsakanikas, V., Tsafas, N., Stergiou, K., Triantafyllou, V. (2022). MeAct: A Non-obstructive Persuasive End-to-End Platform for Active and Healthy Ageing Support. In: Hara, T., Yamaguchi, H. (eds) Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services. MobiQuitous 2021. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 419. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94822-1_56
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