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Assisted Living SIG workshop

Start Date: 16 March 2010 10:00
Location: Lancaster Room, Carters Green Business Centre, West Bromwich

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Assisted Living SIG workshop with the Modern Built Environment and Digital Communications KTN
Integrating Assisted Living into the Modern Built Environment

Tuesday 16 March - 10.00am – 14.00pm
Lancaster Room, Carters Green Business Centre, West Bromwich

With an aging population comes the challenge of designing new build housing stock and improving existing properties to enable residents to stay in their own home or a residential care home for longer and ease the pressure on hospital wards and doctors surgeries.

This workshop will bring together industry representatives from the healthcare, digital communications and building sectors. The current demand for good quality housing and a model for implementing assisted living design will be discussed, as well as the need for cross-sector collaborations and the benefit this can bring to industry. The Assisted Living Special interest group is funded by the Health Tech and Medicines KTN.

Programme
10.00am - Registration, tea & coffee
10.15am - Introduction from Alvolution (a division of MedilinkWM) - Rob Chesters, MedilinkWM
The role of Alvolution as the lead of the KTN Assisted Living Special Interest Group and the benefits of collaboration
10.30am - Integration of assisted living into the built environment - Mike Perry, BRE
The digital infrastructure in the built environment - the transmission medium for delivery of digital services, including Assistive Living
11.00am - Sandwell Housing & Health - Malhotra, Sandwell PCT
An overview of the research being carried out around the role of good quality housing and the links to healthcare Neeraj
11.30am - Future aspects of assisted living - Kevin Doughty, Centre for Usable Home Technology, University of York
Looking at the Blue Sky ideas of today and how they will form the assisted living technologies of tomorrow.
12.00pm - Roundup / Q&A
12.30pm - Lunch
13.00pm - Optional tour of the demonstrator house
14.00pm - Depart

To register for FREE: Please contact Lucy Watkins by:
Email: Lucy@applied-eventology.co.uk
Phone: 0121 452 5630
Book Online: www.MedilinkWM.co.uk