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Technological innovations in elderly care: challenges for science and economy

Explore the challenges faced by elderly care and the potential of technology to address them. Learn about the gaps in research, the need for care-driven science, and examples of cutting-edge projects in the field. Discover the future of elderly care and the importance of developing and implementing technology for improving care practices.

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Technological innovations in elderly care: challenges for science and economy

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  1. Technological innovations in elderly care: challenges for science and economy Luc de Witte

  2. Outline • Elderly care is facing enormous challenges; new directions are needed • Technology offers many (potential) possibilities, but also threats • Much research is needed to ‘guide’ the careful use of technology • This offers great challenges and opportunities for CAPHRI • And, if done properly, also for industry and economy

  3. Challenges for elderly care • The demand for elderly care will grow substantially • Available resources (personnel and money) will not grow at the same pace: shortage will become the standard  much more needs to be done with less • Care will be delivered at home as much as possible (and more than today), with the professional in a more distant role • Selfmanagement and informal care will develop further • In intramural settings care will be more complex

  4. Challenges for CAPHRI • New approaches are needed: building on selfmanagement, informal care and support, multidisciplinary approaches • Technology offers many potential solutions that may help meeting these challenges • But: there is a huge gap between technology development and needs in care practice • And there is only very little scientifically sound knowledge about how technology can be implemented, what the effects are, etc…

  5. …. • There is a strong need for care-driven research in this field; that is why we initiated the CCTR: centre for care technology research)

  6. Some examples: what can we expect?

  7. Care at a distance

  8. Monitoring: Quiet Care

  9. Care Robotics

  10. Robotics

  11. Robotics

  12. Servicerobots

  13. Socially assistive robots

  14. A fearsome future…?

  15. Or just great fun…?

  16. This is no science fiction CAPHRI projects today: • Care robotics • The socially assistive robot PARO (started 1-9-2008) • Arm support: McArm (started 1-4-2011) • Home service robot ACCOMPANY (starts 1-10-2011?) • (The play robot IROMEC (finished 1-5-2011)) • Monitoring technology: care at a distance • Monitoring frailty (started 1-1-2010) • Teletechnological support for elderly (started 1-9-2011)

  17. What is needed • Research to support development of care applications: user requirements (patient and caregiver), ethical issues, how can technology be embedded in care practice, etc… • User evaluations: usability, safety issues, acceptance, etc… • (Cost-)Effectiveness research • Implementation research • Educational and training programmes • ……

  18. Conclusion • The future is today • This field has great scientific, practical and economic potential • We are making initial but substantial steps towards a research programme in this field • If we succeed to establisch CCTR (centre for care technology research) we can really ‘make a difference’

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