The main aim of OLDES project is to allow older persons to live as much as possible in their own ambient, with or without the members of their family, when clinical state and family consent that. It addresses to self- or not-sufficient patients suffering with chronic diseases as diabetes. Over three-quarters of the patients that utilize the home health care service are over 75 years old. The OLDES service is assured by a team of various operators: doctors, nurses, social workers, that collaborate with the general practitioner. Sometimes it involves voluntary associations. Below describes particular stakeholder situation in diabetes care. OLDES home health care service is carried out according to a personalized treatment plan, based on the assessment of the functional state of the patient and care plan.

OLDES promotes healthy life style by providing audio-visual content, or trough the constant monitoring of vital parameters and health state, that allows a more adequate and well-timed treatment of possible diseases. Moreover opportunity of extending the service to a wider number of users and having a great number of available data, relevant to monitor and analyse the patient behaviour and clinical state, is not negligible.