The future of Happy and Healthy Ageing

This podcast episode is the last of the series of the IDIH project. We’ll start telling you the story of IDIH with the project coordinator - Dr. Kristin Dallinger – who will provide you also with an overview of the IDIH outcomes and products. To know more about the future of IDIH and how the Consortium has designed its path towards the sustainability of the key-exploitable asset of the project, stay tuned with Dr. Svetlana Klessova, President of ENRICH GLOBAL association, the international network under which we are going to keep engaged the IDIH Community of Stakeholders. Finally, don’t miss the interview with Dr. Emily Lee, expert in the “Integrated Care” Expert Group of the IDIH Digital Health Transformation Forum, who will help us trace the R&I landscape around Digital Health & Ageing in South Korea.

So, we hope you enjoyed this series! Keep being engaged for a “Future where Ageing Actively and Happily”.

This episode will explore the R&I landscape in Japan around Digital Health and Ageing, especially thanks to the testimonies of Mr. Sakon Yamamoto, CEO of Sawarabi Group, a group of medical - welfare integrated and comprehensive care service providers for the older persons in Japan, and Dr. Lorenz Granrath, interviewed on the perspectives of EU-Japan collaboration in R&I, with a focus on the eVita project, “EU-Japan Virtual coach for smart ageing”. Interesting insights on the uptake of the open platforms for the development of innovative solutions in the Active and Healthy Ageing (AHA) and Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) domains are also presented, thanks to participation of Alexander Nikolov, from the project PlatformUptake.eu.

This episode will explore the R&I landscape in China around Digital Health and Ageing, especially thanks to the testimonies of Dr. Huiyao Huang, from the Clinical Trial Center, National Cancer Centre of China, and Dr. Timo Strohäker, coordinator of the SENET project, enhancing EU-China collaboration on Health. Moreover, this episode will dedicate a special session to the analysis of the gender dimension in Research and the ageing population, thanks to our special guest, Dr. Peggy Maguire, Political Scientist and the Director General of the European Institute of Women’s Health (EIWH). A final outlook on R&I on digital health and ageing will be provided by Dr. Francesco Giuliani, involved in the Eu project GATEKEEPER.

This episode will explore the policies, programmes and initiatives supporting Ageing through Digital Health in the United States. Moreover, a specific focus will be on Integrated Care through digital solutions for the older people, starting from the findings of the IDIH Expert Group on Integrated Care. As a special guest, Giovanna Ferrari, Project Lead representing Pfizer for the project Gravitate Health, a Public-Private Partnership, funded under the Innovative Medicines Initiative, that equips and empowers citizens with digital information tools making them confident, active, and responsive in their patient journey, specifically encouraging safe use of medicines for better health outcomes and quality of life.

Starting from the findings of the IDIH Expert Group, this episode will first focus on the area of Preventive Care through digital solutions for Active and Healthy Ageing (AHA). Then, we'll bring your attention on Canada, as a strategic country in the framework of Digital Health for AHA, exploring Canadian policies, programmes and initiatives in the field.  

Experts, researchers, policy makers and advocacy organizations have contributed as special guests in this episode, enjoy! 

This month, we will focus on Health, Wellness, Wellbeing & Happiness having a look at how Happiness has become a metrics for measuring wellbeing.

And on the opportunities for global researchers and innovators to get funded in Europe.

We will also present some interesting events on Active and Healthy ageing where you will all be invited to participate.