Dr John Boyle, MD, and Dr Reynold Greenlaw, Senior Project Manager are attending the CuPiD kick-off meeting in Bologna.
OCC is involved in a 3 year EU project to provide personalised rehabilitation exercises for people with Parkinson’s disease (PD) at home. The project is called “CuPiD” and is powered by an eight member consortium led by the University of Bologna. Cupid will develop and test a combination of services for at home rehabilitation and training of major motor impairments caused by Parkinson’s disease.
The results will be:
1. Clinical guidelines for developing tailored rehabilitation programmes
2. A home-based rehabilitation system (wearable sensors and local processing)
3. Telemedicine infrastructure for remote supervision of the rehabilitation
A large part of OCC’s role will be the technical development behind (3), so the project builds very closely on what OCC has done in PERFORM, ParkService and Parreha – Parkinson’s projects leading back to 1999! This project should also give us the scope to explore building telemedicine into our product range. Telemedicine is an increasing part of the business opportunities around social care provision and will be brokered and commissioned in the same way as other home services.
Please contact us if you are interested in this project and would like to learn more about a longstanding involvement in projects for Parkinson’s disease.