What does TAFETA stand for?

There is fascinating, innovative technology, TAFETA (Technology-Assisted, Friendly Environment for the Third Age), being created and tested by a Canadian research partnership (Elisabeth Bruyere Research Institute, University of Ottawa and SCO Health Services, and Carleton University). This partnership created a "smart apartment" in an Ottawa hospital. The apartment, designed to help patients prepare to go home, contains several electronic sensors ("helpers").

Acuity Research Group is a partner in the TAFETA project, designed to identify and verify solutions to enable older adults and others to live independent lives with the help of an unobtrusive technological "safety net". TAFETA (Technology Assisted Friendly Environment for the Third Age, www. tafeta. ca) is headquartered at SCO Health Services, Ottawa.