Insight
Agetech World meets Joop Tanis, director of MedTech Consulting, to discuss the considerations that innovators need to keep in mind when creating technology for the elderly. How can technology improve the delivery of healthcare? The ambition for the NHS, and other healthcare systems, to collaborate with the technology sector has always existed. Many of the technology [...]
AgeTech World meets sector experts to predict the trends we are likely to see in 2023, as pressure on the healthcare sector rises. Our world is going through an unprecedented demographic shift as we’ve never seen so many people reaching old age. According to the annual State of Ageing report by the Centre for Ageing [...]
Agetech World explores how effective bed alarms are for preventing falls in elderly people. While there is no proof that bed alarms prevent falls, they are an important part of digital tools used in home-care services. People aged 65 and older have the highest risk of falling with around a third of people aged 65 [...]
Andrew Davies, CEO of RWG Mobile, discusses how preventing long-term conditions through technology-enabled care is essential to reducing the care gap. The COVID-19 pandemic changed not only the way we live our day-to-day lives, but the way we view and use healthcare. The belief that the best care was provided face-to-face and involved a mandatory [...]
AgeTech World explores the Yamanaka factors and their relation to healthy ageing. The Yamanaka factors are a group of protein transcription factors that play a vital role in the creation of induced pluripotent stem cells. Induced pluripotent stem cells are a type of pluripotent stem cell that can be generated directly from a somatic cell. [...]
Paul Berney, CMO at Anthropos, explores how connected care technology can improve older people's lives. Within Connected Care, we are all working towards the same goal; enabling older people to maintain their independence for longer. One way of achieving this is by pioneering new technologies that support better understanding of the needs of older people. [...]
AgeTech World sat down with Nadim Yared, CEO of CVRx, to explore how the brain can play a major part in treating heart failures. In the UK, heart failure affects about 900,000 people with 60,000 new cases annually and is predominantly a disease of older people, according to NHS England. Heart failure is condition that [...]
AgeTech World sat down with Dr Sanjeev Kanoria, owner of Advinia Healthcare, to discuss how technology could revolutionise the care home sector. Advinia Healthcare is one of the biggest private care providers in the UK with 38 care homes around the country. According to the 2019 ONS figures on internet users, there were four million [...]
What will the next steps of Alzheimer’s research be after the recent allegations? A recent investigation by Science suggested that images from a 2006 study may have been doctored. The alleged compromised study set the stage for years’ and millions of dollars’ worth of Alzheimer’s research. The findings were checked by multiple experts who agreed [...]
The influence of digital technology on everyday life accelerates at lightening pace and younger generations are keeping pace; but all-too-often, older people living in isolation can be left behind. Could gerontechnology solve the problem? Gerontechnology is defined as an interdisciplinary field linking existing and developing technologies to the aspirations and needs of ageing and aged [...]
