Wednesday 17 February 2016

Edmonton healers and hackers join forces

Seniors are perhaps less in love with technology than Millennials, which presents a challenge to health care professionals.

To bridge it, health care experts and young developers are hunkering down this weekend to create new apps workable for even the most wifi-wary senior.

Hacking Health is a national program that works to find technological solutions for health problems, and Edmonton’s event Feb. 19-21 is turning that focus to older adults.

Event organizer Lili Liu, also the chair of Occupational Therapy at the University of Alberta, uses phones as an example. When your old one breaks, most of the options to replace it will have wifi capability and a camera — meaning seniors have more access to technology than ever before.   For the full article click here 



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