posted on 2022-04-04, 08:00authored byLeonardo Angelini, Mira El Kamali, Elena Mugellini, Omar Abou Khaled, Christina Röcke, Simone Porcelli, Alfonso Mastropietro, Giovanna Rizzo, Noemi Boqué, Josep Maria del Bas, Filippo Palumbo, Michele Girolami, Antonino Crivello, Canan Ziylan, Paula Subías-Beltrán, Silvia Orte, Carlo Emilio Standoli, Laura Fernandez Maldonado, Maurizio Caon, Martin SykoraMartin Sykora, Suzanne ElayanSuzanne Elayan, Sabrina Guye, Giuseppe Andreoni
This article describes the coaching strategies of the NESTORE e-coach, a virtual coach for promoting healthier lifestyles in older age. The novelty of the NESTORE project is the definition of a multi-domain personalized pathway where the e-coach accompanies the user throughout different structured and non-structured coaching activities and recommendations. The article also presents the design process of the coaching strategies, carried out including older adults from four European countries and experts from the different health domains, and the results of the tests carried out with 60 older adults in Italy, Spain and The Netherlands.
Funding
European Commission under the Horizon 2020 programme, SC1-PM-15-2017—Personalised Medicine topic, through the project grant No. 76964
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