77 percent do not believe the NHS is prepared to meet the needs of an ageing population
New polling data from Ipsos and the Health Foundation has revealed that the majority of the public believe the NHS is not prepared to meet…
Call for more clinical engineers in healthcare to meet shifting technological & demographic trends
As the NHS faces a huge influx of new technology and rising patient numbers in the coming years, a new report by the Institution of…
Shielding of older people ‘must not come at the expense of their health & wellbeing’ warns experts
With research revealing that physical activity among older people has steeply declined since the COVID-19 lockdown, the British Geriatrics Society has warned that lower levels…
Patients in NI dying in hospital while waiting to be discharged due to lack of community care packages, national charity unveils
More than 200 patients died in Northern Ireland’s hospitals in 2017-18 while waiting to be discharged, Marie Curie has revealed. The terminal illness charity has…
University to develop assistive robots to help reduce anxiety in children and allow people to ‘visit’ their relatives
Researchers at the University of Sheffield are helping create intelligent assistive robots that can reduce anxiety in children and enable family to ‘visit’ their elderly…
Charity urges radical rethink of health, work and housing to avoid looming crisis for poorest older people
A landmark report on the state of ageing in Britain shows that a significant proportion of the population is at risk of suffering poverty, ill-health…
Pioneering research to deliver person-centred care for people with progressive conditions
Researchers at the University of East Anglia and the University of Cambridge have developed a way to help people with progressive conditions receive better person-centred…
Patent-awaiting wheelchair handrim alternative to offer ‘most suitable solution for the upper body’
In a project financed by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, a research group from Vienna set out to find the optimal drive for wheelchairs; the…
New global study unveils different attitudes and concerns towards ageing
Ipsos MORI has carried out a new global study, in partnership with the Centre for Ageing Better, to highlight the varying attitudes towards ageing across…
Multi-million-dollar grant to help university develop innovative device for children with cerebral palsy
The University of Delaware (UD) in the USA has received almost $200,000 in start-up funding to develop a motorised ankle foot device for children with…