How will Accenture's vision of Intelligent Home Services improve the quality of life for the elderly in the future and impact the performance of industries who serve them? In with the old and in with the new. Or so recent trends have twisted a
traditional phrase. According to the World Health Organization, the worldwide
elderly population will double to more than one billion by 2020. By 2050,
one-third of the world's population will be 65 or older. Before you know it, a
whole new era for demographics is born.
So what does this mean? Twice the elderly and half the support? Accenture
believes the impact won't simply be a shift in societal thinking.
Organizations, too, will need to fundamentally reshape the ways in which they
operate. Industries will be expected to cater for this new breed of clients,
adapting products, services and operational processes to suit. How? By
utilizing technology innovation. At the heart of the solution to such demands,
technology can open up new channels of communication and interaction. Bringing
sci-fi-styled benefits to the bathroom and boardroom alike.
Accenture Technology Labs has built a series of prototypes to showcase how
technology can turn the home into a safe and actively nurturing environment, as
well as a channel for new services. Intelligent Home Services demonstrate a new
breed of assistive care, where:
- Sensing intelligence monitors well-being.
- Communications intelligence enhances interactions with the outside world.
- Emotional intelligence understands and reacts to emotions.
Find out, too, how technology innovation can drive the
industries serving the elderly to become high-performance businesses.
See it in Action
Accenture Technology Labs is
finding out how technology can turn the home into a safe and actively nurturing
environment. See what a
room of the future may look like using prototypes at the heart of our vision for
Intelligent Home Services.
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It's not just
demographics that are changing, technology is too.
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