home care

Dementia costs more than heart disease, and cancer. And it will balloon.

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Human brainDemen­tia Care Cost Is Pro­ject­ed to Dou­ble by 2040 (The New York Times):

“The most rig­or­ous study to date of how much it costs to care for Amer­i­cans with demen­tia found that the finan­cial bur­den is at least as high as that of heart dis­ease or can­cer, and is prob­a­bly high­er. And both the costs and the num­ber of peo­ple with demen­tia will more than dou­ble with­in 30 years, sky­rock­et­ing at a rate that rarely occurs with a chron­ic disease…The RAND results show that near­ly 15 per­cent of peo­ple aged 71 or old­er, about 3.8 mil­lion peo­ple, have demen­tia. By 2040, the authors said, that num­ber will bal­loon [Read more…] about Demen­tia costs more than heart dis­ease, and can­cer. And it will balloon.

Emerging digital technologies to maintain autonomy and health

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Quick heads-up: Inter­est­ing upcom­ing event (Oct. 25–26th) in Nice, France, orga­nized by the French Amer­i­can Biotech­nol­o­gy Sym­po­sium, focused on “Con­tri­bu­tion of dig­i­tal tech­nolo­gies to main­tain the auton­o­my of aging peo­ple,” and dis­cussing inno­va­tion around telemed­i­cine, med­ical devices in home care, bio­engi­neer­ing, neu­rostim­u­la­tion, neur­al implants.

The orga­niz­ers want to engage French and Amer­i­can aca­d­e­m­ic researchers, stu­dents, sci­en­tists involved in R&D projects, entre­pre­neurs and rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the ICT and phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal industries.

To Learn More, vis­it FABS 2012.

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