Global Assistive Technology Expo and Conference (GATEC) is a dedicated platform for the promotion of Assistive Technology (AT), Disability, Healthy Ageing & Home Healthcare. It will provide an opportunity for the exchange of ideas and networking on all aspects of the science, practice, and education associated with the Assistive Technology, Medical Sciences, Rehabilitation Engineering, Clinical Engineering, and related areas.
iCONEX has launched and managed recognised national and international events with success. One of the events with the highest customer satisfaction globally was GATEC. With its prior success, iCONEX is launching the second edition of GATEC with fresh and creative concepts on Assistive Technology, Healthy Ageing , Rehabilitation, Home Health Care and Infrastructure.
Assistive Technology (AT) is any item, piece of equipment, software program, or product system that is used to increase, maintain, or improve the functional capabilities of persons with disabilities.
Assistive Technology helps people who have difficulty in speaking, typing, writing, remembering, pointing, seeing, hearing, learning, walking, and many other things. Different disabilities require different Assistive Technologies.
At the biological level, ageing results from the impact of the accumulation of a wide variety of molecular and cellular damage over time. This leads to a gradual decrease in physical and mental capacity, a growing risk of disease and ultimately death. These changes are neither linear nor consistent, and they are only loosely associated with a person’s age in years. The diversity seen in older age is not random. Beyond biological changes, ageing is often associated with other life transitions such as retirement, relocation to more appropriate housing and the death of friends and partners.
Common conditions in older age include hearing loss, cataracts, and refractive errors, back and neck pain and osteoarthritis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes, depression, and dementia. As people age, they are more likely to experience several conditions at the same time. Older age is also characterized by the emergence of several complex health states commonly called geriatric syndromes. They are often the consequence of multiple underlying factors and include frailty, urinary incontinence, falls, delirium and pressure ulcers.
Old age need not be burdensome to individuals or society. Assistive technology can enable older people to continue to live at home and delay or prevent the need for long-term care. Increased choice, safety, independence, and sense of control for service users.Improved quality of life. Assistive devices help make daily activities easier and safer. Assistive devices are a wide variety of tools, devices, and technologies that are designed to help old age people perform a specific function.
Healthy ageing is defined as ‘the process of developing and maintaining functional ability that enables wellbeing in older age’ The promotion of healthy ageing focuses on sociocultural and physical factors. Functional status is a major independent risk factor for dependency, institutionalisation, and mortality in older populations. Old age is not usually devoid of ill health, age-related impairment, limitation, and restrictions that contribute to frailty can be modified. The main goal of assistive technologies for elderly people is to reduce reliance on other people and care systems and to help them to stay at homes in safety and comfort.
Viveka Nand
Project Head
US Priyadarshi
Manager Sales
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