Orientation

Automation and comfort solutions play a crucial role for people with reduced mobility. Our quality of life in old age depends on how practical and forward-looking we have planned our household. This also relieves the burden on family structures.

Denmark is often cited as a positive example how a care reform could look like. The country has initiated fundamental changes. What makes it different in terms of care - and what can we learn? Anja Herberth was on site.

Places in care homes are scarce due to the shortage of skilled workers, so care will increasingly be provided at home. In this interview, Prof. Dr. Sabine Ludwig explains how we can stay fit and healthy for as long as...

Digital solutions help to manage home care together with relatives. HerzensApp co-founder Oliver Wimmer in an SBC interview.

Rapid advances in technology will transform social life. The focus lies on humanoid robots.

Günther Ohland is an expert and journalist for SmartHome, as well as a founding member of the SmartHome Initiative Germany. In our interview he addresses the social aspects of smart technologies and the development toward a customer market.

In view of the shortage of nursing staff, AI-supported assistance systems for the home are becoming increasingly urgent. In Germany alone, there will be a shortage of over 3 million homes suitable for the elderly and over 600,000 care workers...

Cornelia Kilin helps older people and people with physical and mental impairments to develop new movement patterns. This is essential after accidents, for example, or when the musculoskeletal system becomes increasingly restricted in old age. An interview about maintaining mobility...

An IHS study commissioned by the WHO revealed that individual households in Austria are sometimes heavily burdened by private healthcare expenditure. Aids such as wheelchairs or prostheses are not affected by any upper limit.