Gerontechnology aims at improving the functioning of older people and their carers in their daily lives as well as improving gerontological practices. To promote gerontechnology innovation in the hospital and bridge the gap between gerontechnology developers and hospitalized frail older patients, our objective was to create and implement a hospital-based geriatric living lab. We designed a hospital-based living lab, providing reflexive workshops bringing around the table gerontechnology users and developers, supplemented with an experimental hospital room receiving both the users and the devices to be tested. Three different types of users were distinguished: seriously ill older inpatients, professional hospital caregivers, and informal carers. Three different kinds of devices were also distinguished: prototypes under development, new services and/or care organizations, and new uses. Finally, we were able to open in 2018 the Angers Living Lab En GéRiatrie hOspitalière (ALLEGRO) hospital-based geriatric living lab. ALLEGRO offers the organization of "idea incubator workshops" for users and developers, together with one "experimental hospital room" equipped with validated devices to provide reference measures used as a standard to test the diagnostic efficacy of prototypes. The room is intended to accommodate one older inpatient with severe acute organic failures. No patient selection is planned at admission, apart from consent to research. Until now, no refusal to participate in a study was noted. In conclusion, we offer a new and unprecedented hospital-based geriatric living lab to improve hospital care for older inpatients and to promote successful aging through gerontechnology.

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使老年技术发展适应住院的虚弱老年人：基于 ALLEGRO 医院的老年生活实验室的实施

Gerontechnology 旨在改善老年人及其照顾者在日常生活中的功能，以及改善老年学实践。为了促进医院的老年技术创新并弥合老年技术开发人员与住院虚弱老年患者之间的差距，我们的目标是创建和实施以医院为基础的老年生活实验室。我们设计了一个以医院为基础的生活实验室，提供反思性的研讨会，让老年技术用户和开发人员围绕在桌子上，并辅以一个接受用户和要测试的设备的实验病房。区分了三种不同类型的用户：重病老年住院患者、专业医院护理人员和非正式护理人员。还区分了三种不同类型的设备：正在开发的原型，新的服务和/或护理组织，以及新的用途。最后，我们能够在 2018 年开设昂热生活实验室 En GéRiatrie hOspitalière (ALLEGRO) 医院老年生活实验室。ALLEGRO 为用户和开发人员提供“创意孵化器研讨会”的组织，以及一个配备经过验证的设备的“实验病房”，以提供用作测试原型诊断功效的标准的参考措施。该房间旨在容纳一名患有严重急性器质性衰竭的老年住院患者。除了同意研究外，在入院时没有计划选择患者。到目前为止，还没有发现拒绝参与一项研究。综上所述，