The Department of Health (DH), the Technology Strategy Board (TSB), the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) will be funding a number of new activities around technology and new business models for Assisted Living.

This initiative will enable industry, academia and health and care professionals to collaborate in order to significantly advance the technology. Also, more generically, to advance the ability of industry and the health and care professions to meet the demand for independent living from people suffering from chronic long term conditions, noting the likely growth in those with such conditions as numbers of elderly people increase.

More information can be found here.