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This paper presents the project Social Cooperation for Integrated Assisted Living (SOCIAL), which aims at the development of a platform of ehealth applications to support the care networks of community-dwelling older adults. First the requirements of the SOCIAL platform are discussed, and then the high level system architecture is presented.

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This work was supported by Sistema de Incentivos à Investigação e Desenvolvimento Tecnológico (SI I&DT) of the Programa Portugal 2020, through Programa Operacional Competitividade e Internacionalização and/or Programa Operacional do Centro do FEDER - Fundo Europeu de Desenvolvimento Regional, under Social Cooperation for Integrated Assisted Living (SOCIAL), project number 017861.

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Sousa, M. et al. (2018). SOCIAL Platform. In: Rocha, Á., Adeli, H., Reis, L., Costanzo, S. (eds) Trends and Advances in Information Systems and Technologies. WorldCIST'18 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 746. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77712-2_111

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