TUM-AgeTech: A New Framework for Pervasive Medical Devices

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Author(s): Tim C. Lueth (Technical University Munich, Germany), Lorenzo T. D’Angelo (Technical University Munich, Germany)and Axel Czabke (Technical University Munich, Germany)
Copyright: 2010
Pages: 27
Source title: Pervasive and Smart Technologies for Healthcare: Ubiquitous Methodologies and Tools
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Antonio Coronato (CNR, Italy)and Giuseppe De Pietro (CNR, Italy)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-765-7.ch014

Keywords: Health Information Systems / Medical Information Science Reference / Medicine & Healthcare

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In this chapter, the program of the Technical University Munich regarding implementation of technologies for an aging society is introduced. Various departments from the faculties of both technology and medicine are working jointly to actualize a technological basis for the development of assistance devices. Industrialized countries such as Japan and Germany will be facing an extreme demographic shift over the next 15 years. More than half of the population will be over 50 years of age. Belief in technological progress – initiated by the innovations of computer and the Internet – harbors the risk that the time required for necessary technological advancements is being significantly underestimated. This chapter describes the motivation and the concept of hardware architecture for implementation of assistance devices and for integration of pre-existing (or concurrently developed) sensors and concepts.

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