Populations are rapidly ageing internationally, with the number of older people in the UK predicted to double in the next decade. Even before COVID-19, health and social care systems were already struggling to provide personalised care, and to effectively support people to live as independently as possible for as long as possible. This demographic transition is a major societal challenge, and new technologies and data-driven innovation are a key element of meeting the challenges posed.

The Advanced Care Research Centre is an interdisciplinary collaboration to research care in later life, and includes academics from seven schools in the University (Medicine, Informatics, Engineering, Health in Social Science, Literature Languages and Culture, Social and Political Science, and Art and Architecture).

The presentation will introduce the wider context of population ageing and care, and then discuss elements of the programme including (1) Analysis and prediction of later life joint trajectories of health, function, independence and death; and (2) New technologies of care such as passive and active sensing and other supportive tools to support independence and safety.

·        Advanced Care Research Centre website

Speakers:

Bruce Guthrie, Professor of General Practice at Usher Institute and Director of Advanced Care Research Centre

Sohan Seth, Senior Data Scientist, School of Informatics

Jacques Fleuriot, Director of AIAI institute, School of Informatics