Wearables, portable gadgets for health monitoring, self-diagnostic medical devices, elderly monitoring and alert systems, robot butlers, and data-driven smart care were identified as focus areas for product innovations.
Sacramento Bee: Wisdom Travels: North Natomas’ elderly community will be the faces of a new art project
North Natomas resident Audrey Melendez, 55, is one several elderly participants set to be featured in Wisdom Travels, an oral history project funded by the City of Sacramento Office of Arts and ...
Wisdom Travels: North Natomas’ elderly community will be the faces of a new art project
Longer lives are one of our most remarkable collective achievements. Advances in social and economic development as well as in health have lowered mortality rates, particularly among older people, meaning most people can now expect to live into their sixties and beyond. At the same time, factors such as urbanization, higher education and access to family planning have led to smaller family ...
The National Programme for Health Care of Elderly and Health and Wellness Centres under the Ayushman Bharat programme provide dedicated healthcare to elderly at primary health care settings. In the last few years, medical science has identified a new group within the senior citizen category, namely that of super-agers.
Thailand is among the fastest ageing countries in the world. Of its 67 million population, 12 million Thais, are elderly according to the latest national statistics report. Since 2005, the country has been classified as an ‘aged society’ as people aged 60 years and above accounted for 10% of the population. It is expected that the country’s elderly population will increase to 28% and ...