Rory’s Always On Newsletter is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Last week I visited Imperial College’s Living Lab and spent a fascinating day contributing data about my every move. It is one of a number of projects where academics are trying to develop technology to monitor people living with neurological conditions. What I did not realise until I got an email about my piece was that this is an idea already being deployed in the real world.
Interesting my Husband has MND for him it’s been a long slow determination unfortunately I don’t think this the answer it’s money being spent in research of the various strains of alll these neurological diseases is where the possible cures could be found people suffering don’t want their demise monitored they want a cure or something which slows down the disease progress👍Thankyou for your podcasts brilliant all the best
Great to see you covering this. Other local authorities are doing good work here too, including eg Suffolk. See https://adasseast.org.uk/videos/2528-how-suffolk-is-building-a-digital-platform-for-care-and-prevention. In most cases monitoring is being used to keep people safe in their own homes by alerting family and/or carers when patterns of behaviour deviate from the norm. But increasingly the same digital platfroms will be used to monitor health conditions and vital signs at home. The most important thing is that local authority social care provision (and the data platfoms) are joined up at a local level with NHS activity in this space. That's the key challenge, not the tech!
Interesting my Husband has MND for him it’s been a long slow determination unfortunately I don’t think this the answer it’s money being spent in research of the various strains of alll these neurological diseases is where the possible cures could be found people suffering don’t want their demise monitored they want a cure or something which slows down the disease progress👍Thankyou for your podcasts brilliant all the best
Great to see you covering this. Other local authorities are doing good work here too, including eg Suffolk. See https://adasseast.org.uk/videos/2528-how-suffolk-is-building-a-digital-platform-for-care-and-prevention. In most cases monitoring is being used to keep people safe in their own homes by alerting family and/or carers when patterns of behaviour deviate from the norm. But increasingly the same digital platfroms will be used to monitor health conditions and vital signs at home. The most important thing is that local authority social care provision (and the data platfoms) are joined up at a local level with NHS activity in this space. That's the key challenge, not the tech!