What CICAT does

CICAT des Pays de la Loire is a French non-profit association (Association loi 1901) founded in 1999 and headquartered at 1 rue des Maillets, 72000 Le Mans, in the Sarthe department. It operates as a Centre d'Information et de Conseil sur les Aides Techniques, providing free information, advice, evaluation, testing, and demonstration services on technical aids for elderly persons and people with disabilities, with the objective of supporting independence and autonomy at home. The organization also runs home-visit interventions across the entire Sarthe department through occupational therapists and a social worker, including support for funding research, and maintains a sub-brand resource center called the Technicothèque Sarthe.

CICAT's service portfolio comprises core advisory missions (informations et conseils, essais et démonstrations, visites à domicile, actions de sensibilisation), publications (bulletins d'information and downloadable plaquettes including a 2025 brochure), educational video content on technical aids, and participation in the national EqLAAT experimentation (Équipes Locales d'Accompagnement sur les Aides Techniques), which adds personalized evaluation, equipment trials, usage accompaniment, and follow-up. Distribution is direct to beneficiaries and to medical, paramedical, home-services, and building-adaptation professionals, with all services delivered free of charge to recipients and the organization explicitly neutral of any commercial interest in the sale or rental of aids.

The business model is grant-funded rather than revenue-generating: operating support comes from CNSA via the Commission des Financeurs de la Prévention de la Perte d'Autonomie de la Sarthe, with participating funders CARSAT, MSA, Groupama, and AG2R. The organization employs 28 staff, holds no disclosed patents, trademarks, or awards, and operates with a GDPR-compliant website built on Jimdo with Google reCAPTCHA and a basic analytics layer. There is no disclosed revenue, no parent company, no subsidiaries, no funding rounds, and no management team information available in the source data.

Name

CICAT

Legal name

CICAT des Pays de La Loire

Website

https://cicat-pdl.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

1999

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

CICAT des Pays de la Loire is a French non-profit association (loi 1901) founded in 1999, providing free information, advice, testing, demonstration, and home-visit services on technical aids for elderly and disabled persons across the Sarthe department, funded by CNSA and partner organizations.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Assistive Technology Advisory Services

NAICS

Services for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities (62412), Services for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities (624120), Social Assistance (624)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Independent Living Community Ancillary Services (Dining/Transportation/Wellness Programs) (HLADAAAI)

Keywords

• Technical aids advisory
• Assistive technology services
• Elderly care consultation
• Disability support services
• Home adaptation guidance

Headquarters

HQ city

Le Mans

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

CICAT des Pays de la Loire is a non-profit information and advisory center that provides free evaluation, testing, demonstration, and home-visit services related to technical aids for elderly people and people with disabilities. It helps individuals maintain independence and autonomy at home by offering personalized advice, raising awareness about technical aids, and supporting healthcare and social professionals. The center also develops publications, brochures, and educational videos to disseminate information about technical aids.

Product overview

CICAT des Pays de la Loire is a non-profit association (Association loi 1901) created in 1999 that serves as an information and advice center for technical aids for elderly persons and people with disabilities. The organization operates as a service-oriented entity rather than a technology product company. Its offerings include: (1) core advisory services including information and advice on technical aids, (2) home visits by occupational therapists in the Sarthe department, (3) EqLAAT - a national experimental program for local accompaniment on technical aids with personalized evaluation and follow-up, (4) Technicothèque Sarthe resource center, (5) educational videos on technical aids, (6) awareness actions and outreach programs, and (7) publications including bulletins and brochures. All services are free and provided neutrally without commercial interest in the sale or rental of technical aids. The organization works complementarily with medical-social teams in the Sarthe territory.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Technicothèque Sarthe: Resource center/library for technical aids in Sarthe
• EqLAAT

Products and services

• Information and Advice Service Free, personalized information and advice on technical aids (aides techniques) for elderly individuals and people with disabilities, delivered by a multidisciplinary team including occupational therapists, social workers, and specialized engineers.
• Testing and Demonstration Hands-on testing and demonstration of technical aids at the center in Le Mans, allowing users to try equipment before purchase decisions.
• Home Visits On-site home visits across the Sarthe department to assess technical aid needs in the individual's actual living environment and recommend appropriate solutions.
• Awareness Actions Awareness-raising actions and training programs for healthcare, medico-social, and social professionals about technical aids and their applications.
• EqLAAT Program Local accompaniment team program providing specialized technical-aid support to elderly and disabled individuals at the local level, as part of a national CNSA-coordinated initiative.
• Technicothèque Sarthe

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

Feature4 records

Scale indicators3 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• CCAS (Centre Communal d'Action Sociale): Municipal-level public social action centers providing information, advice, and support to elderly and disabled residents. Comparable in offering free, neutral advisory services on autonomy and aid-related topics at a local level, though covering a broader social-services mandate.
• AFM-Téléthon: French neuromuscular disease association operating support services including technical aids, home adaptation, and autonomy guidance for people with disabilities. Comparable in providing technical aids expertise and home-visit services for disabled beneficiaries.
• France Alzheimer: French national association supporting people affected by Alzheimer's and related diseases. Comparable in serving elderly populations and dependents with autonomy-support needs, with a similar associative non-profit operating model.
• APF France Handicap: Major French disability advocacy and services organization. Directly comparable to CICAT in serving the disabled population and addressing technical aids, accessibility, and home adaptation — though APF operates nationally and across all disability support areas, not solely technical aids advice.
• Other regional CICATs (e.g., CICAT Bretagne, CICAT Nouvelle-Aquitaine): Regional CICAT centers operating in other French regions with the same Association loi 1901 structure, technical-aids advisory mission, and CNSA-aligned funding model. The most direct peers to CICAT des Pays de la Loire, differentiated only by geographic territory.
• ADMR (Association du service à domicile): France's largest home-services association network, providing in-home support to elderly and disabled individuals. Highly comparable to CICAT in serving similar beneficiary populations through localized, in-home service delivery, though ADMR's scope is broader (household help, personal care) rather than technical aids specialization.

Regional players

• MDPH (Maisons Départementales des Personnes Handicapées): Department-level public agencies responsible for assessing disability needs and coordinating support, including technical aids. Directly comparable in being department-level institutions supporting elderly and disabled individuals' access to aids, but operating as a public agency rather than a non-profit.

Broad incumbents

• Croix-Rouge française: Large French humanitarian and social-services organization operating across elderly support, disability, and home-help missions. Comparable in mission overlap (autonomy, home support) and non-profit funding model, though much broader in scope and geographic reach.
• UNA (Union Nationale de l'Aide, des Soins et des Services aux Domiciles): National federation representing French home-care and personal-services providers. Comparable in mission (enabling autonomy at home for elderly and disabled) but operates as a national umbrella rather than a single regional resource center.
• Mutualité Française: National federation of French mutual insurance organizations with significant involvement in prevention, autonomy-support, and elderly services. Comparable in being a non-commercial-aligned actor in the elderly/prevention ecosystem, with some overlap in technical aids and home adaptation programs.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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