Population aging is a phenomenon affecting many countries around the world. For example in Europe the life expectancy increased from 45 years in the early twentieth century, to 80 years now.  Significantly longer life leads to age-related problems and diseases. In parallel, the cost of hospital care is increasing and additionally, a lack of the qualified caregivers is observed. Development of ubiquitous healthcare technologies can improve the quality of life of assisted citizens and can curtail growth in healthcare spending fueled by aging populations, and the prevalence of obesity, diabetes, cancer and chronic heart and lung diseases. In particular, information systems integrated with wearable, mobile devices and sensor networks at home can continuously assist persons while moving out or staying at home.  Ubiquitous healthcare systems used as assisted living solutions will not only help to prevent, detect and monitor health conditions of a person but will also support of elderly, sick and disabled people in their independent living.

The goal of the UHH 2016 workshop is to gather researchers and engineers working in the field of ubiquitous healthcare to present and discuss new ideas, methods, and applications of assisted living IT technologies.