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The Assistive and Healthcare Technologies blog
Personal Alarm Service | Astraline
Emergence Project Vision The network will facilitate the creation of a sustainable healthcare robotics eco-system connecting researchers, industry and healthcare providers, in order to build the infrastructure and systems to drive world-class advances in healthcare robotics research and development to support people living with frailty within communities in the UK.
Why Frailty? Individuals with frailty have different needs but, commonly, assistance is needed in activities related to mobility, self-care and domestic life, social activites and relationships. Healthcare robots are increasingly recognised as solutions in helping people improve independent living, by having the ability to offer physical assistance as well as supporting complex self-management and healthcare tasks when integrated with patient data.
Why Robotics? Individuals with frailty experience changes in their conditions over time, both in the longer term and the shorter term. Traditional assistive technologies struggle to adapt to these changes and are typically abandoned by their users as a result. Robotic solutions can be more easily personalised and developed to sense changes in behaviour and environment, draw inferences and make decisions in order to be able to adapt how support is delivered.
Personal Alarm Service | Astraline
The Assistive and Healthcare Technologies blog
Personal Alarm Service | Astraline