Wim Baanen

6 years ago, I, Wim Baanen, was asked to discuss setting up a home with technologies that help the elderly to live at home longer. If the elderly can live longer, more pleasantly and more safely at home, and so can I, then I would of course like to contribute to that. That's why I started as a volunteer and later became an ambassador and I still enjoy doing this.

I myself live in an elderly home from Haag Wonen, where I once came to live with my wife. She died in 2015, a pain that will never go away. I used to work as a manager at a car dealer and nowadays you can often find me in my lovely allotment garden or at my kitchen table where I build historic wooden model boats. I hope that I can do all this for many years to come, perhaps supported by the technology that I was introduced to through iZi.