Senior Living

The requirements for residential construction change over time. Anyone who has not yet heard of the term "Ambient Assisted Living" (AAL) will be increasingly confronted with it in the coming years. Because with demographic change and the impending shortage of...

With the demographic challenges, more and more strategies are emerging to offer older people guidance and support and to make their life in cities easier.

Being able to live healthily and independently at home for as long as possible is not only the wish of many people. Places in care homes are scarce due to the shortage of skilled workers, so care will increasingly take...

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

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...

Fear of poverty: The concern of no longer being able to afford the cost of living and standard of living remains by far the biggest - ahead of issues such as climate change, unemployment and personal security. What does that...

Our society is ageing and there are not enough care places. Care will increasingly (have to) take place at home. What we should be aware of in order to be able to live within our own four walls despite 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.

Smart building technologies have been available for more than two decades - the sector is now just starting to develop slowly. We take a look at the reasons: Why developments in the building sector have taken so long?