An increasing elderly population is a particular issue in India, where figures from the World Bank show that there are now in excess of 73 million people aged over 65, a figure growing year-on-year. About 20% of the over 65s either live alone or with their spouse and want to maintain their independence as long as possible.  

Our UK-India collaboration is leveraging opportunities in both countries to build the evidence for using IoT and analytics to drive business transformation.

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The demographic and healthcare pressures include:

• Families are often more mobile and move away from the original area

• Elderly parents have greater wealth, a desire to live independently and to stay out of institutional care

• There is a rapidly growing elderly and vulnerable population and current care services and resources are not scalable – either insufficient qualified staff or the scale of cost to public purse

• There is a need to virtualise mobile and remote healthcare services supported by technology due to the topography of remote locations and lengthy travel times in rural and urban areas.