From “Medical News Today”
Article Date: 16 May 2007 – 1:00 PDT
By the year 2026, 21.6 per cent of the world’s population will be older than 65, 32 per cent of which will have some kind of disability. Official data confirm that the percentage of elderly people will increase dramatically within the next years: by 2050 there will be 180 per cent more people older than 80 than today.
Guided by these figures, the Spanish Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade – through its CENIT programme, targeted at fostering cooperation between the private and the public sectors for the development of technological innovations, has granted a 20 million euro subsidy to the research and development project “AmIVital: digital personal environment for health and wellbeing”.
The above article is a couple of years old but I found some points of interest in it. One is the high percentage of elderly projected in the next 40 years and second is how communication devices for elderly and disabled individuals can be at the forefront of communication technology. What do you think? How will telephones, television and “telecomputing” evolve during the next generation?
