Can Technology help with the Ageing Population crisis?
Source: UN, 23 June 2010 Submitted by Editor Digital TV software specialist, Ocean Blue Software, has released a white paper that explores the challenges facing health and social care providers, and looks at how assistive TV technology can benefit care communities, whilst reducing costs. The paper highlights some of the issues and problems surrounding an increasingly ageing population. It also outlines how the NHS, local councils and government are striving to manage the extra pressures of debilitating conditions such as dementia, cancer and heart disease that predominately accompany old age. Will technological advances help to reduce costs, whilst offering a better choice and a greater lifestyle to the elderly and impaired? Ocean Blue Software Ltd is developing set top box-based healthcare applications that are delivered through a digital TV and an enhanced remote control. Nearly half of older people (about 4.6 million) already consider the television their main form of company.* The
