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Business Development Manager – Etac – South Central England. 8th October 2024. Area Sales Manager – Etac – East Anglia & North M25. 7th October 2024. AT Today brings all the latest Assistive Technology news, research & innovations from around the …
Disability Action Plan aims to ensure more disabled people ... - AT …
Jul 19, 2023 · New plans to improve the lives of disabled people were set out by the UK Government yesterday (18 July 2023), which includes raising the profile of assistive technology to ensure more disabled people have access to life-changing technology.
Findings reveal just five percent of adults with a learning disability ...
1 day ago · Centre for Ageing Better Images – Pictures Peter Kindersley. Councils are calling for the needs of hundreds of thousands of working-age adults and lifelong disabled people requiring social care not to be overlooked in UK Government plans for a National Care Service.
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Powerchair users urged to complete important survey about the …
1 day ago · The Wheelchair Alliance, a community interest company which champions the needs of wheelchair users across England, is urgently calling on all powerchair users to complete a vital survey to help it raise concerns over a recent change in class.. The call to action follows concerns on the categorisation of wheelchairs following the UK Government’s updated guidance surrounding the use of ...
30 years of alarm call data delivers new early warning system …
Oct 7, 2024 · Taking Care, a UK personal alarm provider, has unveiled ActiveAlert, an assistive technology service that provides proactive alerts to family members about potential health concerns among elderly adults.. ActiveAlert acts as an early warning system and combines AI and big data to shift care from being reactive to proactive. It is designed to help older adults remain independent at home for ...
Telecare services could save the UK more than £14bn over the …
Feb 16, 2022 · Extending telecare services to more people could save the UK’s care providers £14.5 billion by the end of the decade, new analysis has found.
New docuseries will highlight the pivotal role of assistive tech in ...
Nov 21, 2023 · The British Assistive Technology Association (BATA) has launched a three-part docuseries that explores the “pivotal” role of assistive technology in education.. Entitled ‘The Power of AT’, the docuseries was born from the concern of the countless disabled children left underserved in the UK’s educational system, according to BATA.
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8 in 10 adult social care leaders say building a case for TEC ...
Mar 25, 2024 · A new report, published by the TEC Services Association (TSA) and PA Consulting, has found that around half of councils in the UK believe there is little or almost no understanding of technology-enabled care (TEC) across the health and social care workforce.. While 97 percent of adult social care leaders agree that TEC is an important way to respond to “the tidal wave of demand and ...