SOPHIA is not only a girl's name, it is also a short form for an innovative technology for elderly and handicapped: Social Personal Care - Help In All (SOPHIA) situations. It enables senior citizens to stay as long as possible in their homes. Facing the demographic development, especially in the western world, of a more senior population there could be increasing demand in the future for such a concept. 

There is an increasing interest in European countries in such a tool. It is more humane to respect the wishes of the great majority of the elderly who wish to stay as long as possible in their home and this method could be used for cooperative housing as well. Members of housing cooperatives, for example, could be encouraged to form small solidarity groups with their senior neighbors.

In April this year Sophia could be presented to the European Parliament and on 18 July 2008 Sophia Consulting GmbH will receive an international award for innovative home-assisting technology from a British organization for innovative technologies, ACCESS-IT. This award recognizes organizations and individuals as innovators for providing technologies for a better life in the home.

Please click here to read a presentation about the SOPHIA project.