Affective Lives of Rural Ageing

Tough Ageing: A Consequence of Population Ageing in Rural Areas (A Study of Rural Areas of Badreh County, Ilam, Iran)

Extended Abstract Introduction: As the United Nations has considered Population ageing as one of the most significant trends and social transformations in the 21st century, many countries, including Iran, are subject to experience the phenomenon due to the increasing share of older persons in the population. Therefore, the country must prepare to surmount the problems arising from the status q...

Tough Ageing: A Consequence of Population Ageing in Rural Areas (A Study of Rural Areas of Badreh County, Ilam, Iran)

Extended Abstract Introduction: As the United Nations has considered Population ageing as one of the most significant trends and social transformations in the 21st century, many countries, including Iran, are subject to experience the phenomenon due to the increasing share of older persons in the population. Therefore, the country must prepare to surmount the problems arising from the status q...

Saving mother's lives in rural Indonesia.

Supporting rural ageing well: how important is the rural?

Policies and programs designed to support ‘ageing well’ represent a key plank in government and community responses to the challenges of population ageing (1-3). Supporting ageing well might be defined as “the process of optimizing opportunities for health, participation and security in order to enhance quality of life as people age” (3 p.12). This is a broad goal, touching on virtually all the...

Can Affective Computing Save Lives? Meet Mobile Health

More than a decade ago, my Imperial College colleague Robert Istepanian coined the term mHealth to represent mobile health sensing and advice. The decade before that, Rosalind Picard’s seminal book gave birth to affective computing. Both fields have since skyrocketed. Today, affective computing can enhance mHealth by, for example, encouraging mHealth technology adherence through emotionally int...