Combining ICT-standards essential-patents and medical-managerial Guidelines towards sustainable assisted-living and home-care

The continuously prolonged life-expectancy and the increased demand for accessibility of various prematurely disabled groups of fellow-citizens worldwide, intensifies the need for action, towards the creation of a global home-care technology platform. This should combine first, common ICT-standards and medical-managerial Guidelines and second, it should regulate fairly enough the Essential Patents involved, in order to facilitate globally, assisted-living and home-care. However, this proper sustainable milieu should be adapted to the local economic, social and medico-technical conditions. It is the purpose of this paper: First, to review and present, in a usable form, the home-care “state of the art”, as depicted on searched, retrieved and evaluated relevant Industrial Property documents. Second, to summarize the most relevant ICT-standards and medical-managerial Guidelines involved, enabling, thus, interoperability in contemporary home-care and assisted-living. Finally, to create various home-care related ≪patent-maps≫, attempting, thus, to use their early disclosing potential of published IP-documents, to reduce intentional obscuring of IP-portfolios.