At the Instituto de Biomécanica (IBV) we have a solid scientific basis as regards ageing, which enables us to carry out projects concerning the elderly and people in a situation of dependency, fragility or disability. We have the necessary knowledge to help companies, associations, users and institutions to develop products and services and to continue improving such people’s quality of life.
Based on our knowledge acquired about the elderly population, we accompany companies in the process of designing and validating their solutions, putting forward improvements to them in order to fully satisfy the end client.
We analyse elderly people’s interaction with the devices by applying people-centred innovation methods so as to identify possible improvements in them from the point of view of usability and functionality.
IBV has the SIMPLIT certification by which companies can accredit that a device or service is easy to use, comfortable and intuitive for elderly people.
To obtain the SIMPLIT seal, the product or service must pass an evaluation process that includes verification that it meets regulations and usability tests with the users themselves.
One of the WHO’s five priority objectives in its global strategy and action plan on ageing and health is to improve measurements, monitoring and research on healthy ageing. All of this implies a need for new measurement mechanisms and analytical methods to evaluate aspects related to the ageing process.
At the Instituto de Biomecánica (IBV) we have technologies such as Fallskip, the biomechanical application that evaluates a person’s risk of falling, as well as assessing their locomotor system’s functional state. This helps to address the problem of elderly people falling, which affects 30% of people over 65 years of age at least once a year, and 50% of people over 80.
Fallskip. Innovation and precision
to assess elderly adults’ risk of falling
A biomechanical application that evaluates the risk of a person falling due to their functional state.
