Digital Avatars for Older People’s Care ⋆ Manuel F. Bertoa [0000-0002-0950-5019] , Nathalie Moreno [0000-0001-9470-0283] , Alejandro Perez-Vereda [0000-0002-0195-0062] , David Bandera [0000-0002-8548-7940] , Jos´ e M. ´ Alvarez-Palomo [0000-0002-3489-196X] , and Carlos Canal [0000-0002-8002-0372] Departament of Computer Science, University of Malaga (Spain) http://atenea.lcc.uma.es/ - http://scenic.uma.es/ Abstract. The continuous increase in life expectancy poses a challenge for health systems in modern societies, especially with respect to older people living in rural low-populated areas, both in terms of isolation and difficulty to access and communicate with health services. In this paper, we address these issues by applying the Digital Avatars framework to Gerontechnology. Building on our previous work on mobile and social computing, in particular the People as a Service model, Digital Avatars make intensive use of the capabilities of current smartphones to collect information about their owners, and applies techniques of Complex Event Processing extended with uncertainty for inferring the habits and pref- erences of the user of the phone and building with them a virtual profile. These virtual profiles allow to monitor the well-being and quality of life of older adults, reminding pharmacological treatments and home health testings, and raising alerts when an anomalous situation is detected. Keywords: Gerontechnology · Social Computing · People as a Service · Digital Avatar · Complex Event Processing 1 Introduction The progressive growth in life expectancy comes together with increasing pop- ulation aging, in particular in Western societies. Despite elder adults are nowa- days more active and in better health and physical conditions than anytime in the past, their health requires assiduous supervision and care: regular medi- cal revisions and tests, pharmacological treatments, and many other therapies. This poses a challenge for the health systems in those aging societies, especially with respect to older people living in rural and low population areas. Geron- technology [13] is an interdisciplinary field that brings together gerontology and technology for creating technological environments for inclusive, innovative, and independent living and social participation of older adults. Its concerns deal with matching technological environments to health, housing, mobility, communica- tion, leisure and work of elder people [8]. ⋆ This work has been funded by the Spanish Government under grant PGC2018- 094905-B-100.