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Business opportunity service rolls-out to new market
A membership service run and supported by MedilinkWM for private companies working in the life sciences sectors has been expanded to include products and services for manufacturers and suppliers to the assisted living market.
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Collaboration the future for assisted living market
The debate over the future of health and social care provided to the elderly and those living with long-term conditions gathered pace last week with Gordon Brown promising a 'personalised revolution' in his major pre-election speech, and the Personal Care Bill getting its third reading in the House of Commons.... more
i-DEAL
'The Intelligent Design Engine for Assisted Living Technology (i-DEAL)' project, which incorporates a range of schemes to support Assisted Living, is funded by The Technology Strategy Board.
The TSB grant provides valuable R&D funding to industry partners developing innovative new products for the Assisted Living sector. The EPSRC grant provides funding for Coventry University through the new Health Design Technology Institute (HDTI), to develop an industry-focused user-evaluation methodology.
The i-Deal consortium seeks to develop a range of new products in close consultation with end-users. One of the biggest challenges facing industry today, is the development of Assisted Living products which meet the full range of user needs. This consortium brings together industry, academia and end-users to support current product development and devise an effective user-centred design methodology which will ensure products are "Fit for Purpose".
The consortium aims to bring a collection of new products to market, ranging from telemedicine through to environmental control in the context of home and community-based assisted living.
