Analysis Responses

Technology trends in the medical devices industry and related healthcare

Category: Other

It analyses trends in the generation and uptake of advanced technologies, entrepreneurial activities and skills supply and demand in the medical devices industry, and secondly, it also explores trends in the related healthcare sector from a demand-side perspective.

Ten questions concerning age-friendly cities and communities and the built environment

Category: User Experience

Journal paper: Abstract: The development of ?ge-friendly cities' has become a major area of work in the field of ageing and the built environment. This movement is driven by the observation that cities are home to an ever-increasing ageing population. Over the past decade, a multitude of age-friendly initiatives have been developed with the aim of making physical and social environments more favourable for older people's well-being, health and ability to live in the community. This article explores ten key questions associated with the age-friendly cities and communities' movement, with a particular focus on the built environment. It provides an overview of the history of the age-friendly cities' movement and the underlying models, the aspects of the built environment that are relevant for age-friendly cities, the ways age-friendliness can be evaluated, and the interactions between age-friendly cities initiatives and other strategic agendas such as smart cities. The paper concludes by discussing future perspectives and possible directions for further development of the age-friendly movement.

The deployment of the Pharaon Large Scale pilots, assess, among other parameters, the usability level of the devices by the main users: Older Adults, Caregivers and Professionals.

Category: User Experience

The overall objective of the PHArA-ON project is to provide support for Europe's ageing population by integrating digital services, devices, and tools into open platforms that can be readily deployed while maintaining the dignity of older adults and enhancing their independence, safety, and capabilities. The project will utilise a range of digital tools including connected devices (e.g., the Internet of Things, IoT), artificial intelligence, robotics, cloud and edge computing, smart wearables, big data, and intelligent analytics that will be integrated to provide personalised and optimised health care delivery.

The free

Category: User Experience

Kobo hosts and maintains KoboToolbox, a data collection, management, and visualization platform used globally for research and social good. Our mission is to support open source data systems and technology for humanitarian action, development, environmental protection, peacebuilding, and human rights.

Unified Listing

Category: Other

A list of commercial and research accessibility services and products enabling access to communication, computers and digital devices. It brings together information from 12 different databases in Europe, the US and Australia.

W3C Accessibility Guidelines

Category: Standards

W3C First Public Working Draft of Accessibility Guidelines (21 January 2021)

What makes a community age-friendly: A review of international literature

Category: User Experience

The paper reviews the international literature on age-friendly communities and identifies key attributes associated with creating a sustainable environment for seniors. It critically evaluates emerging policy trends and models and suggests directions for future research attention.

Who Doesn't Think about Technology When Designing Urban Environments for Older People??A Case Study Approach to a Proposed Extension of the WHO's Age-Friendly Cities Model

Category: User Experience

Journal paper: Abstract: The World Health Organization (WHO) strives to assist and inspire cities to become more ?ge-friendly? and the fundamentals are included in the Global Age-Friendly Cities Guide. An age-friendly city enables residents to grow older actively within their families, neighbourhoods and civil society, and offers extensive opportunities for the participation of older people in the community. Over the decades, technology has become essential for contemporary and future societies, and even more imperative as the decades move on, given we are nearly in our third decade of the twenty-first century. Yet, technology is not explicitly considered in the 8-domain model by the WHO, which describes an age-friendly city. This paper discusses the gaps in the WHO's age-friendly cities model in the field of technology and provides insights and recommendations for expansion of the model for application in the context of countries with a high human development index that wish to be fully age-friendly. This work is distinctive because of the proposed new age-friendly framework, and the work presented in this paper contributes to the fields of gerontology, geography urban and development, computer science, and gerontechnology.