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Workshop Overview

There is great potential for technology to enhance the safety and independence of frail older people, enable access to quality care services and to extend their ability to remain in their own homes. Intelligent monitors can keep a continuous watch on patients' vital signs, activity patterns, their safety and security. The technology can monitor indicators of their state of health, provide alerts to events such as falls, give early warnings of potential problems, reduce risks and improve safety and security.

This workshop will present the latest in current developments and a vision for the future of technology in aged care.  This includes the shared vision, local and international strategies, for active, independent ageing enabled through intelligent systems; as well as reports on leading-edge projects in home automation and digital technologies to benefit the frail aged, chronic illness sufferers and people with disabilities.

The workshop has a mix of both international and Australian speakers to provide a clear context for the application of international innovations in the Australian environment.

SIG Aims and Objectives
The aim of the SIG is to provide a genuine multidisciplinary forum for clinicians, health and aged care providers, software vendors, researchers, policy makers and consumers to identify the methods and benefits of information management and technology applicable to problem solving and decision-making relevant to quality care of the frail aged and of ageing populations in any setting.

"Our immediate task is to develop our vision for how informatics can improve outcomes for consumers and then to support and initiate the debates on how to achieve this vision," says Isobel Frean, SIG Convenor. "We will do this by recruiting members who can contribute towards shaping the vision for an ageing informatics' and by supporting other initiatives in this area." HISA President, Prof Michael Legg comments "Through the work of this special interest group, HISA is optimistic of informatics, relevant to the health and community care of older persons, will become part of the mainstream of national and international informatics agendas - something at present it is not."

To read more about the planned activities of the SIG download a copy of the SIG's one page plan.