Assistive AI Updates

Peter Kerly, VP of Global Sales, Everon Group There are just over 500 days to go before the UK’s telecoms infrastructure goes digital. It is difficult to recall a time when this deadline wasn’t looming, but the end of analogue is finally upon us, says Peter Kerly, VP of Global Sales at Everon Group.…

Lilli, a care technology specialist, has assisted Medway Council to support hundreds of people to live safely in their own homes for longer, avoiding care homes and higher needs care settings. Medway Council’s adult social care team adopted Lilli to support with evidence-based care assessments and reablement packages. In approximately one year, the council…

The Health and Social Care Select Committee has launched a new inquiry into the role of physical activity in improving the health and wellbeing of older people. While the Chief Medical Officer called for a focus on “maximising independence and minimising the time spent in ill health between reaching older age and the end…

Prominent figures from leading health and social care organisations have responded to the recently published NHS 10-year health plan, which details the government’s priorities and policies for the health service in England. The King’s Fund, Health Foundation, RCOT, BHTA, and SCIE, have all responded to the 10-year plan. Reactions from across the health and…

Visitors to Posture & Mobility Group Training, Conference and Exhibition (PMG2025), will have the opportunity to see and experience heavy-duty wheelchairs and accessories from RHealthcare. RHealthcare will be showcasing its Dash 200 HD and Dash Super HD wheelchairs on stand 46, from 14-16 July 2025, at The International Centre, Telford, alongside the Dash Lite…

The UK Government has published the long-awaited NHS 10-year plan, which sets out the government’s priorities and policies for the health service in England. Entitled ‘Fit for the future: 10 Year Health Plan for England’, the policy paper is centred around three big shifts: from hospital to community, from analogue to digital, and from…

A groundbreaking project aimed at boosting the use of e-scooters and e-bikes by disabled people will be hosted in Salford. The year-long initiative, to be delivered by Cycling UK, is being led by the UK’s shared transport charity, Collaborative Mobility UK (CoMoUK), and grant-funded by the Motability Foundation. It aims to support disabled people…

Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US have built and tested a mobile robot designed to physically support elderly people and prevent them from falling as they move around their homes. The Elderly Bodily Assistance Robot (E-BAR) was designed in a bid to address the challenges of an ageing population,…

Jenx’s Supine Stander 3 has helped 11-year-old Zain easily socialise at eye-level with his peers, give his mum a standing a cuddle for the first time, and go from a horizontal to standing position in seconds. Zain is a cheeky boy from Rochdale with a wonderful smile that instantly lights up the room. He…

A new study by the University of Chichester in collaboration with a range of universities and charities across the South coast highlights the critical gap between technological promise and lived reality for people with dementia. It found that innovation developed with the intention to help people, such as voice-assisted devices, can instead cause anxiety,…