The research carried out within the framework of the CREARED project focuses on the analysis of unwanted loneliness in elderly people residing in rural areas of the Community of Madrid with less than 20,000 inhabitants. Through a mixed and participatory methodology, the study allows the identification of risk factors, social barriers and technological opportunities.
With the aim of reducing social isolation and unwanted loneliness among people and providing information and tools to improve their situation, in 2022 the Spanish Red Cross is introducing the Multichannel Service "Te Acompaña".
PIDA (Points of Digital Inclusion), a project developed by AlfabeTICs60, aims at "bringing" digital inclusion to a greater number of older people. To achieve this, a network of digital inclusion points is being implemented to facilitate access, offer training and provide ongoing support in the use of technologies to this segment of the population.
To combat digitally exclusion the French Red Cross has launched the Territoires Zéro Exclusion Numérique (TZEN) - Zero Digital Exclusion Territories - project to enable its regional delegations to develop a strategy that takes into account all the factors of digital exclusion (equipment, connection, skills and uses) in order to help people who are far from digital and make it a vehicle for participation in society.
Bonjour Henry is the first voice assistant dedicated specifically to the elderly who are losing their independence. The solution was designed and developed in Montpellier, France, within the BIC incubator and accelerated by 21, the accelerator of the French Red Cross.
