The project is a 9-month feasability study within the AAL research area entitled:

A Feasibility Study on Using Ambient Assisted Living Technology to Support Toothbrushing Adherence in Elderly with Cognitive Impairments in the Homecare Setting

The project is funded by the AAL Programme as part of Call 2020.

Overview

The overall theme of ORASTAR is an investigation of the relevance and potential of context-aware oral-care support for the home-care sector as envisioned by the participating end-users. Specifically, ORASTAR will investigate the relevance and feasibility of the following new features and services: 1) user interfaces for homecare use,  2) context-aware sensors for creating an enhanced digital model of the users’ activities and status needed for homecare use, 3) an artificial intelligence (AI)-based decision support algorithm for combining sensor data with context data to automatically detect sub-optimal oral care patterns and sending information to caregivers and the elderly themselves, 4) the use of either manually or automatically captured images of the mouth cavity for remote tele-dentistry support which is deemed useful by both Danish and Norwegian dentists.

Objectives

The ORASTAR project is planned as a short collaborative feasibility study aiming at creating a shared agenda between business and end-user partners for investigating the potential of extending the existing CARIOT BRUSH oral-care product for use in the homecare sector with the added features and services required for this sector.

Expected results and impact

Expected outcome of will be the ORASTAR product which will be ready for market introduction within 1 year following the end of the ORASTAR project, depending on the added features requested by the participating end-users. The ORASTAR product will have an impact on several levels, both on the elderly themselves, on their families and friends, on formal and informal caregivers, on the municipal care services, and dentistry services, as well as on the national level, by reducing the occurrence of preventable diseases and conditions, leading to less hospitalizations and visits to family doctor and the dentist. The ORASTAR project itself and the resulting dissemination activities will increase awareness of the challenges related to oral care, and point to new solutions.

Partners

News

31.12.2021
Project succesfully completed. 16.11.2021
ORASTAR is participating in the Health and Rehab Scandinavia 2021 event from November 16-18. Health & Rehab Scandinavia 2021 focuses on professional knowledge sharing, inspiration and networking in the industry for assistive technology and welfare technology. More than 5,900 industry professionals, decision-makers, and users from Denmark and all of Scandinavia visited the exhibition halls, where more than 200 exhibitors, including MEDICA representing the ORASTAR project, were ready to showcase the latest and greatest solutions. During the fair, more than 200 professional mini-seminars, events, and workshops were held by exhibitors and partners. Here visitors could gather new knowledge and inspiration.

19.11.2021
A presentation was provided of ORASTAR on „doctors days“ on November 19th 2021 by Stefan Wagner. This is an annual event for general practitioners and their staff, and the purpose was to provide insights and training in existing and upcoming apps for care. 8.11.2021
ORASTAR was preseneted at the scientific conference: ICT for Health, Accessibility and Wellbeing (IC-IHAW 2021) on November 8-9th 2021 – which featured a special track on AAL technologies and services. Here, the paper „CARIOT+ Care Coach – An Ambient Assisted Living Ecosystem for Supporting Open Data and Open Science Projects (30 minutes)“ was preseneted, which included a presentation of the ORASTAR project incl. project partners and results, and the AAL programme. The presenation was performed by prof. Stefan Wagner. The conference was supposed to be „in person“ – but ended up being online due to rising covid numbers.

24.9.2021
Invited presentation at Nordic Association for Disability and Oral. On September 24th 2021 - Stefan Wagner (AU) presented the ORASTAR project for around 200 dentists and dentist assistans at the annual event. A 45 presentation with an ensuing disucssion.

1.4.2021
Project started. We are looking very much forward to getting the show on the road.