Archive: Technology for Long-Term Care: Scaling Elder Care to the Next Billion
1,328 views · Published 29 April 2009 · 58:27 · Indexed 5 October 2026
Channel: UW Video · 2009 · Education
Long-term care helps the elderly perform key day-to-day tasks such as eating, personal care and medication. Today, such care is overwhelmingly manual. However, the cost of manual care is unsustainable in the face of demographic trends. Without dramatic breakthroughs in the cost of care, over half of all elders are expected to be without adequate care within a generation. This talk describes a series of studies performed at Intel (in collaboration with several major partner organizations including the University of Washington) over the past six years towards understanding how technology may substantially reduce the manual burden of care. To see more videos from the University of Washington visit https://uw.edu/video. The University of Washington is committed to ensuring digital accessibility in our services, programs, and activities. If you encounter accessibility barriers using videos found on this channel, please contact UW Video at uwvideo [at] uw [dot] edu.
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