Webinar on UK Innovations in Healthy Ageing: 24 March 2021
Time: 17.00 - 18.30 hrs Singapore Time
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One in four Singaporeans will be over the age of 65 by 2030, compared to one in seven today. Singaporeans are also living longer and staying healthy for longer.
The UK has over 70 years of experience in providing health and care services to an ageing population, leading the way in innovative design, equipment and technology solutions in monitoring, early detection, and enabling independence and mobility.
Singapore and the UK have similar ambitions to help our rapidly ageing populations remain healthy and active, and add quality and purpose to their lives. In this webinar, explore collaborations with Healthy Ageing delegation from the UK in the realms of:
Sam Myers
Her Majesty's Trade Commissioner, Asia Pacific
Sam is responsible for the UK’s trade and investment relationships across the Asia Pacific region, based in Singapore and covering Natalie Black’s maternity leave. He leads a team of over 200 staff working in British Embassies and High Commissions to support UK businesses. He joined the UK’s Department for International Trade in April 2019, where he was Deputy HM Trade Commissioner for Southeast Asia.
Before joining Department for International Trade (DIT), Sam worked for the pharmaceutical company, AstraZeneca, where he was head of UK Science Policy and Relations. Sam’s Civil Service career began in 2001 as a graduate FastStreamer in the Department for Trade and Industry, where he ran a Minister’s Private Office before becoming the Head of External Relations for the Department. He spent 6 years in Asia with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, boosting science and technology partnerships with Southeast Asia and China. Sam’s structural biology research at Mount Sinai, New York, was published in the journal Science and he has a Masters in Biochemistry from the University of Bath.
Julie Taylor
Moderator
Healthy Ageing Specialist
Department for International Trade
In this role, Julie works to promote UK innovation that helps meets the need of the Ageing Society. Working with colleagues across Europe to support UK companies to export their products and services and supporting European healthy ageing companies to invest in the UK.
Julie is a qualified scientist who has worked as a senior executive in international business in the medical and technology sectors for over 25 years.
Explore Collaborations with Healthy Ageing Delegation From the UK:
Age Care Technologies® sets evidence-based global standards in the care of older people. ACT™ Assessment helps older people receive care and support to extend a healthy active life. ACT™ Training helps caregivers deliver compassionate person-centred care. ACT™ Analytics informs policy makers, commissioners and providers of products and services about what really matters to older people.
Anomaly Group Holdings Pte Ltd
Anomaly Group Limited is a UK-based technology company with 20 years’ experience delivering innovative products to the health and wellbeing market. Anomaly developed ActivAll, a fully inclusive hi-impact reaction wall, which turns physical exercise into active play, to get everyone, regardless of ability, age or fitness, involved in exercise. It has worked extensively with the NHS, Department of Health, Public Health England and the Department of Education.
Guys’ and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust is a centre of excellence for clinical services, education and research, that it can offer international partners. The Trust comprises two of London’s best known teaching hospitals, Guy's Hospital and St Thomas' Hospital. The Department of Ageing and Health is a dynamic department that has researched and developed many new service delivery models in Geriatric medicine, with a consultant led service delivering care 365 days a year.
ARMED is a certified medical device that utilises wearable technology and AI to help keep people independent for longer. By identifying risks, including the risk of falling, earlier in the care cycle, ARMED enables prevention, early intervention and self-management. This empowers people to live independently in their own homes for longer. Find out more about their award-winning falls prevention software.
H4C is a social enterprise that provides evidence-based tools for people to manage their health and well-being and to flourish in their working and personal lives. H4C works with people living with long-term conditions (cancer, autism, multiple sclerosis, depression) and their carers. H4C builds their knowledge, skills, and confidence to take an active role in their own care thus improving their quality of life and reducing the burden on health services.
Konnect addresses social isolation and maintains independence for older adults through TV-video calling, and well-being monitoring sensors. Kraydel’s Konnect system enables video-calls through the TV to engage Users who may not be comfortable using smartscreen devices. Konnect can make and accept video calls from mobiles, tablets or PCs, from a closed network of supporters (family, friends, healthcare professionals, carers, etc) who use the Konnect app (iOS and Android) to reach the older person.
LiveSmart is a digital health service provider that is based in the UK, France and Malaysia, delivering a holistic platform that incorporates health screening, prevention, and intervention. Designed by doctors, LiveSmart's health plans combine the best of digital technology with blood analysis, lifestyle data and one-to-one health coaching to provide health insights users can act on to improve their health.
OM Interactive have been designing and manufacturing motion-activated interactive projections since 2005. Their Mobii Magic Table won numerous care industry awards for its ability to deliver engaging activities for the elderly including those at all stages of dementia, using its versatile suite of content. This technology is all about movement and joy, designed to stimulate users in a social setting.
Optasia Medical is the leading global health technology company focused on next-generation solutions for osteoporosis management. Optasia’s integrated solutions enable new models of care and dramatic improvement in patient identification, end-to-end care path management, and patient engagement.
Philips is a health technology company focused on improving people’s lives through meaningful innovation across the health continuum – from healthy living and prevention to diagnosis, treatment and home Care. Applying advanced technologies and deep clinical and consumer insights, Philips partners with customers to deliver integrated solutions that address the Quadruple Aim: improved patient experience, better health outcomes, improved staff experience, and lower cost of care.
Tekihealth solutions is a medical technology company led by clinicians with over 30 years experience of working in the National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom. They provide state-of-the-art Tele-diagnostic solutions to healthcare organisations, enabling them to provide remote care to their patients.
TestCard is an at-home UTI testing solution that provides immediate results at a low cost. TestCard is a combination of a non-invasive urine test kit embedded into a postcard, with an accompanying mobile application that turns a mobile phone’s camera into a clinical grade scanner.
The University of Dundee is ranked amongst the top 20 universities in the UK. The School of Health Sciences have faculty members with vast clinical, teaching, learning and research expertise in the area of ageing as well as significant expertise in curriculum development, programme development, and CPD development both at national and international level. This allows the development and delivery of appropriate and relevant teaching and learning material which is evidence-based and meets the specific needs of the intended audiences.
Workforce Optimizer is a leading provider of AI-based workforce management software solutions, that allows enterprises to improve workforce productivity, operation efficiency and business responsiveness. Workforce Optimizer employs award winning AI and mathematical optimization techniques that predicts labour demand, automatically generate optimized schedules and dynamically redeploy workforce based on unplanned events.
