Digital Methods and Tools to Support Healthy Ageing

Pradeep Kumar Ray is the Director of the Centre for Entrepreneurship, University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute, China, and an Honorary Professor in the School of Population Health, UNSW-Australia where he co-founded the WHO Collaborating Centre for eHealth. Pradeep has been working on multi-disciplinary projects (across engineering, medicine, business and environment) on digital health (jointly with industry, governments, and global bodies like WHO, EU and IEEE) across the Asia Pacific region.Siaw-Teng Liaw is a clinical informatician and directs the WHO Collaborating Centre on eHealth. Teng educates information, computer and health science students. His research focuses on telehealth/virtual care, digital health maturity and quality and utility of real-world data from information systems, apps and sensors. He chairs the IMIA Primary Care Informatics Working Group and RACGP Ethics Committee. He is Fellow of the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics and American College of Medical Informatics.J. Artur Serrano is a professor in Care Technology and Well-being at the Department of Neuromedicine and Movement Science (INB), Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, NTNU/Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Scientific coordinator of several EU projects, such as SENSE-GARDEN (www.sense-garden.eu) and VictoryaHome (www.victoryahome.eu). Prof. Serrano was co-editor of the Journal for Telemedicine and Telecare and guest editor of the International Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications. He is interested in e-Health, dementia care, immersive technologies, and social robotics.

• Chapter 1: Book overview: digital health for ageing populationPart I: Underpinning principles of Digital HealthChapter 2: Digital health maturity - a foundational principleChapter 3: Global demographic changes and ageing population: an overviewChapter 4: Digital health and elderly care in low- and middle-income countries: opportunities and challengesChapter 5: Health co-benefits in climate action policies for healthy ageingChapter 6: Health data privacy for aged population in Australia Part II: Digital Health Services for Healthy AgeingChapter 7: Silvercare: a model for supporting healthy ageing servicesChapter 8: Safeguarding the elderly in a pandemic: role of lockdown policies and digital health technologiesChapter 9: Digital mental health in Bangladesh “MonerDaktar”: caring seniors during COVID-19Chapter 10: Digital health for aged care from a service perspectiveChapter 11: Role of digital technology in aged care in China Part III: Digital Tools for Healthy AgeingChapter 12: Using powered exoskeletons for rehabilitation in healthy ageing - a societal perspectiveChapter 13: SENSE-GARDEN - A concept and technology for care and well-being in dementia treatmentChapter 14: Challenges and opportunities in the adoption of IoT for the elderly's health and well-being: a systematic reviewChapter 15: Designing mobile healthcare applications for elderly usersChapter 16: Telepresence robots for healthy ageingChapter 17: Conclusion and future work