Research and Inno­va­tion in tech­nol­o­gy for active and healthy age­ing. What’s next?

12/11/2020 @9:30 – 12:00

Under this COVID-19 pan­dem­ic, new approach for inde­pen­dent liv­ing is required. Gov­ern­ments need to address the long-term sus­tain­abil­i­ty of social care. COVID19 has thrown into high relief the long-stand­ing chal­lenges fac­ing social care and the pre­car­i­ous­ness of a sec­tor that has been under-val­ued and under-fund­ed for too long. It has also giv­en it promi­nence and a place in the pub­lic psy­che which means we have the basis for address­ing these chal­lenges and build­ing a con­sen­sus not just around fund­ing but around the future role of social care. New mod­el for Social Care must look beyond the actu­al res­i­den­tial care approach, fos­ter­ing new mod­els for inde­pen­dent liv­ing in seniors. This work­shop will tack­le this debate.

Please note that the reg­is­tra­tion dead­line for this work­shop is 1/11!

 

How to upscale the imple­men­ta­tion of dig­i­tal health solu­tions for the elder­ly

13/11/2020 @13:00 – 15:00

Coun­tries world­wide are fac­ing the same demo­graph­ic changes. Glob­al­ly, the num­ber of old­er per­sons is grow­ing faster than the num­ber of peo­ple in all younger age groups. This in turn puts a strain on health care sys­tems and has cre­at­ed a greater need for smart, dig­i­tal health solu­tions that can reduce the relat­ed costs attached to this devel­op­ment. The dig­i­tal tech com­pa­nies have since long tak­en up this chal­lenge, cre­at­ing a large vari­ety of prod­ucts and ser­vices that can help hos­pi­tals. How­ev­er, many of these smart health ser­vices and prod­ucts could be upscaled fur­ther. The aim of this work­shop is to shed light on and iden­ti­fy the “bot­tle­necks” and show­case solu­tions for the fur­ther upscal­ing and imple­men­ta­tion of dig­i­tal health solu­tions for the elder­ly.

 

e‑Health and Telemed­i­cine solu­tions empow­er­ing per­son-cen­tred care: What’s been going on?

17/11/2020 @10:00 – 12:30

There is a gap in the appli­ca­tion of tech­nol­o­gy in Europe. After the coro­n­avirus cri­sis, this gap has become even more evi­dent. While rur­al areas and the age­ing pop­u­la­tion were already pri­or­i­ty areas of atten­tion, these months have high­light­ed the weak areas that cur­rent­ly exist the sys­tem, leav­ing many groups in vul­ner­a­ble sit­u­a­tions. Telemed­i­cine is based on the con­cept of improv­ing and facil­i­tat­ing per­son­al­ized patient care, as well as improv­ing the patient’s qual­i­ty of life. How­ev­er… is it enough to respond to the cur­rent chal­lenge?

In this work­shop, experts will explain the progress and efforts of dif­fer­ent Euro­pean and nation­al projects to answer to these chal­lenges. In addi­tion, the need to pro­mote exchange in col­lab­o­ra­tive net­works will be empha­sised.

 

Reg­is­tra­tion is now open for all work­shops.