Abstract
Older adults want to live independently as long as possible in their own homes. At the same time, they need to feel safe and secure. Technical assistance systems can be used to achieve these goals. However, technological innovations are not always developed in correspondence with specific needs and aims of their end-users, in our case older adults. To meet the needs of the end-users and to ascertain that end-users fully accept products, it is essential to adapt the products to older adults’ requirements and to reduce elderly people's fears of using technology. To ensure this we suggest long-term testing of innovations in real-world experimental environments called Living Labs (usually the older adults’ homes)