Telecare LIN Newsletter

February 27, 2015 | by

The Telecare LIN Newsletter for this month is out now and contains 44 pages of news, views [grow_thumb image=”https://telecareaware.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/ALIP.jpg” thumb_width=”150″ /]and updates on various projects related to care for the elderly and telecare, mainly from the UK.

A short article in the NHS England website announcing a meeting in London in March entitled “Older People’s Care Summit” is highlighted and some of the statistics there caught my eye. It says that there are 3 million people over the age of 80 in the UK and by 2030 the number is expected to double with the figure reaching 8 million by 2050. I’ve worked with the demographic change graphs for some time now but this is a particularly stark statistic to bring home the need for new approaches to care for the elderly. (The summit still had spaces available if anyone is interested and registration is at this page).

There is a link to Roy Lilley’s new website “The Academy of Fabulous NHS Stuff”  and pointers to some article on telemedicine in China.

On the technology side there is an item on mental health apps and a pointer to a good article on why Australia (could be any country really) isn’t further ahead than it is with Assistive Tech for the elderly living at home.

A good read to catch up on things you may have missed over the month.

April Telecare LIN newsletter out (UK)

May 2, 2014 | by

The Telecare Learning and Improvement Network (LIN) newsletter for April is out now to download and read at your leisure and as usual contains a host of items from the last month.

There is a good roundup of UK care news in the face of the creation of the Clinical Commissioning Groups as well as news from further afield.

The LIN comes from the Health Tech and Medicines Knowledge Transfer Network which was, until April, one of the many KTNs funded by the UK Technology Strategy Board (TSB). There has now been a major reorganisation of KTNs at the TSB and the various KTNs have been consolidated into one KTN with communities within this KTN specialising in different areas. There is no mention of what impact, if any, this will have on ALIP and the the Telecare LIN – perhaps something for next month?