How do we understand the needs of elderly patients? What role does design play in relation to technology? Should we incentivize entrepreneurs to develop for the elderly? On Sunday Nov 17th, Maneesh Juneja, Digital Health Futurist and Health 2.0 London Chapter Leader will be moderating a special pre-conference workshop: Health 2.0 Tools for the Elderly. Maneesh is a conversation leader and has run several Health 2.0 London meetings on Parkinsons, Dementia, End of Life Care, and Care homes. His focus is on how technology might be able to help some of the biggest users of health and social care – the elderly! On 1st Oct 2013, Silvia Stefanoni, Chief Executive of HelpAge International, said: “The world is rapidly ageing: people over 60 years of age already exceed children under 5, and by 2050 they will outnumber children under 15. However, the continual exclusion of ageing from national and global agendas is one of the biggest obstacles to meeting the needs of the world’s aging population.” Elder care is gaining momentum… On 11th December 2013, the UK is to host the first G8 Dementia summit to lead international action on tackling the condition. Germany is training geriatric nurses in Vietnam to help fill care gaps at home. It’s not just Europe that is facing this challenge… China’s national legislature amended its law on the elderly recently to require that adult children visit their aged parents “often” – or risk being sued by them.

1. Health 2.0 Tools for the elderly
Maneesh Juneja
Digital Health Futurist
Maneeshjuneja.com
Sunday 17th November 2013

2. The challenge & opportunity
“The world is rapidly ageing: people
over 60 years of age already exceed
children under 5, and by 2050 they
will outnumber children under 15.
However, the continual exclusion of
aging from national and global
agendas is one of the biggest
obstacles to meeting the needs of
the world’s aging population.”
Silvia Stefanoni, Chief Executive
of HelpAge International
Source: CRUCIBLE Centre for Lifelong Health & Wellbeing

3. Europe – what’s happening?
• Life expectancy in UK
• In 1948 – Men 66 years, Women 71 years
• In 2013 – Men 79 years, Women 83 years
• Between 2008 and 2011, 17 out of the EU’s 28 member states have slashed
their public spending on healthcare due to austerity policies (Source: European Public
Health Alliance (EPHA) – 5TH September 2013)
• UK – £108.9bn budget for 2012-13. Increase for 2015-6 set at 0.1% and £30bn
funding gap by 2020 predicted
• Two countries with the world’s oldest populations, Japan and Germany, are
training geriatric nurses in Vietnam to help fill critical health care gaps at home

4. Loneliness of elderly as
national shame!

5. Not everyone has used the
internet!
• 80% of care homes in UK have no internet access
for residents
[Source: http://www.carehome.co.uk/news/article.cfm/id/1560123/care-homes-urged-to-get-residents-online-and-stop-the-digital-divide-becoming-a-digital-gulf]
• 15% of UK have never used the internet – many are
poor, disabled or elderly
[Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/28/national_audit_office_digital_by_default_them_and_us/]
• 100 million in the EU have never used the internet
• [Variations: 6% of Netherlands are in this category vs 65% of Greece]
• [Source: http://www.ibtimes.com/europeans-digital-world-how-european-commission-member-countries-use-internet-1307535]

6. Population growth
[Hint: Look at Germany vs UK]

7. Variations in %age of population aged 60+

8. Variations in %age of population aged 80+
Hint: Look at Germany vs UK in 2050

9. Buzzwords

11. Where do we look for
evidence?
Currently holds
4,400 records

12. Digital Health – here and now

13. Digital Health – the next 12
months

14. Digital Health – next 3-5 years

15. Globalisation
In 2014, China will replace Canada as 2nd largest market for
Starbucks

16. Physicians per 10,000
population
Which
countries
are
likely to
require
telehealth
products
and
services?
•
Source: WHO, World Health Statistics 2013

17. What can WE do?