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Care app 98point6 announced a US$20m funding and a strategic partnership to power providers and patients with a digital system. MultiCare Health System will be the first health care system to license the 98point6 virtual care technology within its leading hybrid ambulatory care platform Indigo Health. Indigo Health is a division of MultiCare Health System, [...]
AgeTech World meets with Zeinab Ardeshir, pharmacist and founder of PillSorted, to discuss how digital pharmacies can help the older generation. With approximately 63,000 employees and a market value of around £21 billion, the UK pharmaceutical sector is expected to have an annual growth of 3.6 per cent. Like any other sector, pharmacies are moving [...]
A new report found that the average life expectancy of Americans fell at its lowest in nearly 100 years. How can technology help? In 2021, the average American could expect to live until the age of 76 which represents a loss of almost three years since 2019, when Americans could expect to live 79 years [...]
The Swedish company is currently working on a new workout programme with the help of the founders’ grandmother. Boxbollen is a sport that went viral on TikTok with over 50 million views and that helps combat sedentary lifestyles, gamifying physical activity. The tech startup is now working on a 30 days workout programme that aims [...]
AgeTech World meets Joe Miller, Pocketalk general manager, to explore how healthcare providers can overcome language barriers. Hospitals and other healthcare providers are facing a growing challenge to meet the changing communication needs of the UK’s increasingly diverse population. Around one in 10 people in the UK don’t speak English as their first language. This [...]
A new study has found that targeted electrical brain stimulation may improve short-term and long-term memory function in older adults. The research, conducted by Boston University, suggests that four 20-minute sessions of brain stimulation are enough to improve cognitive functions. Researchers analysed a group of 150 healthy volunteers aged between 65 and 88, finding improved [...]
A hallmark of serial age related neurodegenerative disorders, including dementia, is the intracellular accumulation of pathological tau protein in the brain. A new study carried out by researchers in Sweden, Hungary, Canada, Germany and France is using state-of-the-art volume immune-imaging technology. This is in combination with light sheet microscopy, in order to investigate a human [...]
Hit television drama series ‘This is Us’ has got it’s audience talking after displaying a compelling narrative about Alzheimer’s disease. According to new research led by the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health, viewers of the drama thought that it helped to reduce some stigma that surrounds dementia. Viewers also saw it as motivational, [...]
Excessive screen time with devices with blue light have already been linked with health problems such as obesity and psychological problems, however, a new study has revealed a new problem. The study in fruit flies suggest our basic cellular functions could potentially be impacted by the blue light emitted from gadgets we use daily. Senior [...]
Individuals with dementia will often lose their ability to verbally communicate with loved ones throughout the later stages of the disease. A new study, which is a collaboration between Northwestern Medicine and the Institute for Therapy through the arts (ITA), displays how music intervention could help with communication. The intervention called “Musical Bridges to Memory” [...]
