This project trials an innovative Digital Twin application scaled on 5G networks to enhance care by increasing agency, empathy and transparency for people living with dementia, their families and their carers. Our Digital Twin applications use the high bandwidth and rapid response times of the 5G network and mobile edge computing in a care facility context to deliver positive outcomes across the aged care ecosystem.

In 2015, one in every two people in aged care was living with dementia*.

This project's founders, Mark and Dan, have experienced the significant life changing effects of dementia in both of their Father's lives. They've seen and felt the flow-on of impacts from dementia to family and friends, and discovered the immense opportunity for the application of assistive technology in an industry in need of innovation and investment.

This project will demonstrate how 5G applications can bring value in the Health Care industry (specifically Dementia and Aged care) by increasing agency, trust and transparency at a critical time for this sector. It will introduce a range of Health Care facilities to the commercial and competitive advantages of 5G applications and encourage investment and create new jobs.

Our Digital Twin technology, combined with 5G capabilities, contributes to rights-based care, and higher standards of safety and quality in aged care. For the person living with dementia this project will give them more agency (by proxy) in daily decisions even as their cognitive abilities decline. For the family and friends, this project will give them the confidence of seeing a timeline of care provided and allow them to maintain close connections even when not able to be physically present.

Sources, statistics and related information for dementia, aged care and disability sectors:

• A profile of people living in residential aged care in Australia [ABS]

• Disability, Ageing and Carers, Australia: Summary of Findings [ABS]

• The Population 65 Years and Older in the United States: 2016 [Census.gov]

• Nursing Home Care (US) [CDC]

• Disability Impacts All of Us [CDC]

• Facts and stats older people in the UK [MHA]

• Estimates of the population for the UK, England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland [ONS]

• Later Life in the United Kingdom 2019 [AGEUK]

• Disability Facts and figures (UK) [Scope]

• Disability statistics - prevalence and demographics (EU) [Europa]

• Disability (EU) [WHO]
  

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