The ageing phenomena requires the development in the near future of new systems and services that will provide healthcare quality with costs optimization.In this context the distinguished lecture will present a set of unobtrusive sensing solutions for health status and daily activity monitoring for regular elderly people and user under physical rehabilitation process.Will be highlighted vital signals acquisition and processing by sensing modules embedded in clothes and/or accessories and walking aid equipment.The strength and drawbacks of different solutions for cardiac and respiratory assessment will be discussed special attention will be granted to the ballistocardiography and radar ballistocardiography implementations but also to other cardiac assessment sensing solutions.