TeleCARE Time Bank: A Virtual Community supported by Mobile Agents
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The virtual community concept, when supported by adequate ICT and organizational infrastructures, represents a very promising approach for a new philosophy in elderly care and active aging. A mobile agents based approach to implement services to support a Time Bank virtual community in elderly care is introduced and a prototype system developed in the context of the TeleCARE project is presented.
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