  As the worldwide population gets increasingly aged, in-home telemedicine and
mobile-health solutions represent promising services to promote active and
independent aging and to contribute to a paradigm shift towards patient-centric
healthcare. In this work, we present ACTA (Advanced Cognitive Training for
Aging), a prototype mobile-health solution to provide advanced cognitive
training for senior citizens with mild cognitive impairments. We disclose here
the conceptualization of ACTA as the integration of two promising
rehabilitation strategies: the "Nudge theory", from the cognitive domain, and
the neurofeedback, from the neuroscience domain. Moreover, in ACTA we exploit
the most advanced machine learning techniques to deliver customized and fully
adaptive support to the elderly, while training in an ecological environment.
ACTA represents the next-step beyond SENIOR, an earlier mobile-health project
for cognitive training based on Nudge theory, currently ongoing in Lombardy
Region. Beyond SENIOR, ACTA represents a highly-usable, accessible, low-cost,
new-generation mobile-health solution to promote independent aging and
effective motor-cognitive training support, while empowering the elderly in
their own aging.
