Article The SI4CARE project: using wearable devices for assisting people with dementia in Calabria Alessandro Gallo 1,16 , Salvatore Fregola 16 , Margherita Menon 3 , Filomena Talarico 16 , Stella Fragkiadaki 6 , Dionysia Kontaxopolou 6 , Katarina Vukojevic 5 , Danira Matijaca 5 , Miodrag Miljkovic 7 , Srdjan Kojaetinac 7 , Alessio Merola 1 , Vlado Dimovski 8 , Anamarija Kejar 8 , Ivan Radevic 11 , Danica Stevovic 12 , Vlatka Martinovic 13 , Katjia Matesan 14 , Roberta Matkovic 14 , Guido Piccoli 3 , Elena Sodano 9 , Amanda Gigliotti 9 , Nicola Mayera 10 , Elisabetta Pedace 4 , Darja Semrov 15 , Pietro Hiram Guzzi 1,2, * and the SI4CARE Partners Members † 1 University of Catanzaro, viale Europa, Catanzaro, 88100 Italy; a.gallo@unicz.it (A.G.); merola@unicz.it (A.M.), hguzzi@unicz.it (P.H.G.) 2 Municipality of Miglierina, Miglierina (CZ), Street B. Telesio 88040 Italy ; sindaco@comunemiglierina.it 3 ALOT; SI4CARE-TEAM street Cipro, 16 I-25124 Brescia - Italy;margherita.menon@alot.it (M.M.); guido.piccoli@alot.it (G.P.) 4 Soverato Hospital ASP Catanzaro, Soverato, Italy;epedace84@gmail.com 5 University of Split School of Medicine, 21000 Split, Croatia; katarina.vukojevic@mefst.hr (K.V.); danira.matijaca@mefst.hr (D.M.) 6 1st Department of Neurology, Aiginition University Hospital, Vasilissis Sofias Street 72-74 Athens, Greece; st.fragkiadaki@gmail.com (S.F.); d.kontaxopoulou@hotmail.com (D.K.) 7 Special Hospital Merkur, Cara Du´ sana 3, Vrnjaka Banja 36210, Serbia ; miljkovicdzoni@gmail.com (M.M.); srdjan@vrnjcispa.rs (S.K.) 8 University of Ljubljana, Topniaka ulica 31, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia; vlado.dimovski@ef.uni-lj.si (V.D.); anamarija.kejzar@fsd.uni-lj.si (A.K.) 9 Ra.Gi. Onlus, Viale Magna Graecia, Catanzaro, Italy.; sodanoelena@gmail.com, E.S. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 10 Regione Calabria, Road Europa, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy; nicola.mayera@regione.calabria.it 11 Faculty of Economics Podgorica, University of Montenegro, Jovana Toma´ sevica 37, 81000 Podgorica, Montenegro Podgorica, Montenegro; radevic@ucg.ac.me 12 Public Health Center Tivat, 85320 Tivat, Montenegrodanica.stevovic76@gmail.com 13 Health Insureance and Reinsurance Fund of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Trg Heroja 14, Sarajevo.; vlatkamartinovicsi4care@gmail.com 14 Teaching Institute for Public Health of Split-Dalmatian County; katja.matesan@nzjz-split.hr (K.M.); roberta.matkovic@nzjz-split.hr (R.M.); darja.semrov@fgg.uni-lj.si (D.S.) 15 Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering, University of Lubjiana; Darja.Semrov@fgg.uni-lj.sj 16 EthosLab, Catanzaro, 88100, Italy Italy; s.fregola@ethoslab.com (S.F.); f.talarico@ethoslab.com (F.T.) * Correspondence: hguzzi@unicz.it † Current address: Affiliation 3. ‡ These authors contributed equally to this work. Abstract: The improvement of health and social care needs the introduction of shared solution at transnational level. The SI4CARE (Social Innovation for Integrated Health Care) project is a transnational initiative within the Adriatic-Ionian regions aiming to develop strategies to improve the current status of health and social care. The Municipality of Miglierina, a small rural town in Calabria, which is a member the project, is developing a pilot action related to the use of wearable device for monitoring people affected by dementia with the project partner Ra.Gi.. Ra.Gi. is a non-profit organization dedicated to assisting people with dementia in day care centers and so-called dementia-friendly communities. The pilot is based on the use of smart wearable devices to monitor these patients during their daily lifetime. This paper focuses on the design and implementation of the system discussing the proposed application, the strengths and weaknesses. Finally, the possibility of extending the experiment to the other Adriatic-Ionian region is presented. Keywords: Wearable Device; Dementia 12 Disclaimer/Publisher’s Note: The statements, opinions, and data contained in all publications are solely those of the individual author(s) and contributor(s) and not of MDPI and/or the editor(s). MDPI and/or the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to people or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions, or products referred to in the content. Preprints (www.preprints.org) | NOT PEER-REVIEWED | Posted: 24 January 2023 doi:10.20944/preprints202301.0427.v1 © 2023 by the author(s). Distributed under a Creative Commons CC BY license.