IBM expands AI research to support an aging population
From: SD Times - 11/07/2017
By: Ian C. Schafer

IBM's research will be able to predict trends and eventually help the elderly
live better lives says IBM's Susann Keohane

Late September, IBM and the University of California San Diego announced
their partnership with the opening of the Artificial Intelligence for Healthy
Living Center on UCSD's campus, the latest piece of IBM's Cognitive Horizons
Network, a research collective focused on the emerging fields of Internet of
Things, artificial intelligence and machine learning.

UCSD’s team of researchers are tasked with tackling what Susann Keohane,
founder of IBM's Aging-in-Place Research Lab, wrote "will have unprecedented
effects on health care, the economy, and individual quality of life," - 
society's demographic shift towards an older population.

By combining IBM's IoT and health care research with their Watson machine
learning, Keohane says that the effect this shift will have can be broken
down in such a way that it will benefit everyone from the elderly in need of
improved care to businesses, now more aware of their customer base.

Read the entire article at:
https://sdtimes.com/ibm-expands-ai-research-support-aging-population

Links:
Capturing the Heartbeats of Daily Living to Improve Eldercare
https://www.ibm.com/blogs/age-and-ability/2017/09/27/capturing-heartbeats-daily-living-improve-eldercare

Susann Keohane
https://www.ibm.com/blogs/age-and-ability/author/skeohane

Accessible Design for an Aging Population
https://www.ibm.com/blogs/age-and-ability/2017/06/06/accessible-design-aging-population

Toward the Necessary Universalizing of a Disability Policy
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2690291

Using Artificial Intelligence for Healthy Living (with video 2:16)
http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/feature/using_artificial_intelligence_for_healthy_living

IBM Research and UC San Diego Collaborate to Advance the Use of Artificial
  Intelligence for Healthy Living
https://www.insurance-canada.ca/2017/10/06/ibm-san-diego-artificial-intelligence
http://research.ucsd.edu/AIHL