Senior Citizens

Forget millennials, what about tech for older folk?
Silverline is using technology to give older adults the freedom to live their lives as they will, while allaying their adult children’s fears and worries about their parents' health and wellbeing.
SAP in networked care pilot in Singapore
SAP and Sierra Solutions have announced a partnership with ACE Seniors to pilot a project to improve the quality of care provided to geriatric patients in Singapore.
Users under pressure to protect both kids and parents online: Report
30% of parents feel they have no control over what their children see or do online, while many adults worry that their own, digitally-active parents and grandparents could be equally vulnerable, according to a Kaspersky Lab study.
MediaTek to provide 'surfboards' for the IoT wave
Having just developed a wearable solution for elderly patients, Taiwan’s MediaTek believes it has a development platform that can enable the innovation of the thousands of IoT third-party companies out there.
Asia’s senior citizens being left behind by mobile revolution
While the mobile Internet continues to explode across Asia, recent research by the Telenor Group in four of its regional markets suggests that not all citizens in these societies are receiving access to the benefits of connectivity.
Singapore IT bootcamp for seniors and their grandkids
More than 420 seniors are riding the digital wave at the Intergenerational IT Bootcamp in Singapore. The six-day bootcamp kicked off on March 16 at 13 schools, where seniors are guided through a basic lesson by their grandchildren or student volunteers, aged between 10 and 16 years.
Mobility is more than a game-changer
Mark Micallef of Citrix Asean discusses the evolution of work in Asia over recent years, and how work will work in 2030.
TCS-SMU extend iCity Lab partnership, gets grant for senior citizen project
Singapore Management University (SMU) and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) said they have agreed to extend their SMU-TCS iCity Lab (iCity Lab) partnership for another three years to undertake a number of research initiatives and projects.
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