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Forward-looking Project: Independent Living

Global megatrends of globalization, urbanization and demographic change are transforming the fabric of modern society. The current world population of seven billion is expected to reach 9 billion by 2050. We are all getting older as populations in both the developed and developing worlds live longer lives. This has major repercussions for the societies we live in, be it in terms of its effects on the economy or our health and social security systems.

The advent of the Internet of Applications and Services and cyber-physical systems (CPS) are of crucial importance to independent living, playing as they do an important role in telemedicine and remote diagnostics, having been identified within the Agenda CPS as one of four major fields of application up to the year 2025.

Telemedicine (the term given to remote diagnostic and therapy measures using telecommunications to bridge distances between doctors and patients), for example, allows individuals with chronic conditions to be remotely monitored and treated from the comfort of their own homes (e.g. ambient assisted living). Cyber-physical systems will enable an aging population to live more active and independent lives, improving not only quality of life but also contributing significantly to necessary reductions in medical care and treatment costs.

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