PERSSILAA platform: ICT architecture and semantic interoperability for older adults frailty prevention

The "PERsonalised ICT Supported Services for Independent Living and Active Ageing" project, also called PERSSILAA, is a FP7 funded European project that develops and validates a new service model, to screen for and prevent frailty in community dwelling older adults, integrating nutrition, physical and cognitive functioning. PERSSILA develops remote service modules for screening (easy to use tools to get an overall picture of person?s health status), monitoring (unobtrusive monitoring of everyday functioning) and training (remotely available health promotion programs). This paper describes the procedures and technical specifications for providing to the platform with semantic interoperability, by defining a set of archetypes based on an ontology, according to selected SNOMED-CT terms and being compliant with the CEN/ISO13606 European standard. Furthermore, a description of the defined ICT architecture is presented, in order to set the proper environment for the provision of the services defined in the project