Ms. Lena Karjaluoto is the Executive Vice President for HUR (Helsinki University Research) and has experience worldwide of helping develop exercise-as-medicine projects for older adults, and witnessing the increasing role of healthcare technology within these.With a focus on strength training and balance development in particular – whether as part of falls prevention strategies, or more general health-improvement initiatives – for programs to optimise their potential, initial baseline and ongoing testing, recording, and evaluation of strength and functional abilities is of paramount importance…automation, to provide an efficient evidence base, is the platform for further investment.Lena’s presentation will focus on the practical solutions developed for older adults within Finland, with help of individual case study’s…but which are now expanding worldwide, and particularly in the direction of Asia…Lena will also therefore touch on exciting developments in Japan and Singapore, where multi-site projects are now underway using HUR SmartTouch technology.Life-changing strength-improvements in the several hundreds-of-percent are regularly reported…enhancing independence and the performance of activities for daily living, improving mood, and providing (enormous) cost-savings…individually, and to the healthcare sector.The people helped most are those that previously assumed their physical (and often mental) decline to be a ‘natural’ part of ageing…now that we know different, wouldn’t it be a good idea to prevent the decline in the first place?
