Questions

• What is mandate and scope?
• What is working and what is not working?
• What research is needed to make better decisions?
• What are missed tech. transfer opportunities?
• What are collaboration opportunities?
• Policymaker recommendations
• Near term and long term (ten years)

• Increase affordability, reliability and accessibility of effective healthcare and assistive technology.
• Make technologies available to Medicare beneficiaries that are available to private sector (availability). Be inclusive of cultural diversity.
• Create a community based infrastructure for the development, support, delivery, and continuing availability (upgrade, maintenance, enhancement) of AT.
• Coordination and integration of federal agency support of healthcare and AT.
• Create healthcare policy for long-term care and nursing facilities Improving technologies for successful aging, access to the world, and enhancing support (upgrade, maintenance and repair) and utilization. (Consumer and care-giver)
  • Self-sufficiency, education (training)
• Universal design of consumer goods, information system, built environment, services, and transportation.
  • Technology transfer and market development
  • Incentives for entering markets n
  • Work-site accommodation and acceptance
• Research and development for new, improved or enhanced health-promotion and disease/injury prevention, healthcare and assistive technologies.
  • Home healthcare (high-tech house call)
  • Dissemination of information (create informed consumers and clinicians)
  • Including clinical trials with regard for ethical issues
  • Consumer participation at all levels including training consumers to become scientists/engineers (and vice-versa).
• Ethical delivery of healthcare and assistive technology
  • Healthcare rationing
  • Aging and retirement plan?
  • Impact of technology
  • Intergenerational equity and distribution of resources
• Increase availability of engagement across the life-span. Change social perception.
  • Prevention and behavioral goals
  • Change habits and life-style
  • Include people in long-term

What does successful aging mean?

• "Living on your own terms"
• "Adding value to society, family or friends"
• "Have a personal aging plan"
• Maintenance of cognitive function, maximize mobility, retain function, and reduce the impact of chronic disease/dysfunction.

Measurable Objectives (10 years)

• Research Objectives
• Reduce the incidence of chronic diseases, injuries, and functional impairments by 50% through technological intervention (e.g., incontinence, injurious falls, dementia, hearing loss, mobility, vision)
• Determine the proper balance between technological and care-giver intervention for support of people with impairments with the goal of reducing wage-earning hours spent and stress on the care-giver by 50%.


• Personal Functional
  • Reduce the number of people with ADL's and IADL's by 50% through the use of AT.
  • Everyone will have control with protections/safe-guards of a personal "electronic health portfolio" (e.g., credit card). Enhance communication and service.


• Healthcare Policy
  • Universal access to healthcare and health information.
  • Access to appropriate AT any time and anywhere
  • "Electronic House Call" and "Electronic Consult"
  • Develop a coordinated federal policy for healthcare technology transfer to increase technology transfer and viable commercialization of technologies for people with disabilities and aging.
  
  
• Capacity Building
  • Increase pool of qualified professionals and extenders in underserved areas. Improve cultural and trans-generational competency. Expand use of educational technologies.
  • Improve working conditions for healthcare professionals with an emphasis on application of technology.


• Environmental
• Make all new American Dwellings (including public facilities) sensitive to changing function. Allow people to live safely and comfortably. "Healthy and Happy at Home".

• Universal access to technology and supportive environments that maximizes participation by all people.
• Reduce chronic diseases, injuries, and functional impairments by 50% through technological intervention (e.g., incontinence, injurious falls, dementia, hearing loss, mobility, vision)
• Ensure that there are an adequate number of healthcare providers and extenders for all people.