Presentation by Mr .Silas Olsson, “Health Access”, Sweden at the OECD LEED conference on "Demographic transition and ageing society - Implications for local labour markets" (Lodz, Poland), 21/-22 March 2013.

1. Demographic Change
Innovation, Products, Services and Growth
”Local Scenarios of Demographic Change: Policies and
Strategies for Sustainable Development, Skills and Employment”
Conference organised by:
Ministry of Regional Development in Poland, Lodzkie Voivodship
Self-Government in cooperation with the OECD
21-22 March 2013, Lodz, Poland
Silas Olsson
HealthAccess
Sweden
References: European Commission, The Swedish Institute of Assistive Technology (SIAT); Swedish Family Care
Competence Centre; Västerås municipality; Industries from Sweden/Europe; and others referred to in the
presentation

2. Some Main Characteristics of
Regional Development in Sweden
• Innovation
• Entrepreneurship
• Infrastucture (Communication, Broadband, etc.)
• Competence boost for industry and public sector
• The Regions are in the lead (”decentralisation”)
• Government and Gov. Agencies give support
• Intensive on-going work right now to develop
Regional Policies and Strategies for 2014-2020 in
the context of EU Cohesion Structural Funds

3. Some Main Characteristics of
Regional Development in Sweden
- EU Context (preliminary)
• Position Paper from EC – November 2012
• Eight Regions – Eight Programmes
• April – View of the Govenment
• Views from external resources like OECD
• June – Draft from the Regions
• September – Documents from the Regions
• Challenge: synergies with other programmes
• October/November – ”Partnershipagreement”
• January/February – Respons from EC
• Mid 2014 – Launch and First Calls

4. Demographic Trends
Distribution of the population (EU25) per age group (1950 – 2050)
Source: UN World Population Prospects (2002 Revision) and Eurostat 2004 Demographic Projections (Baseline scenario)

5. Technology and ICT enabled
Innovations and Solutions
(products and services) will play
a substantial role to shape the
consequences of Demographic
Ageing

6. Same characteristics related to informal
carers (family carers) in Sweden
• Population 9.500.000 inhabitants
• 1.300.000 informal carers (family carers)
• 900.000 of the informal carers are within the working
age population
• A majority of the informal carers are between 45 and 64
years old and are mostly taking care of their parents
(age group 30-44 mostly care of children, and age group
65+ mostly care of spouse/partner)
• Children are, sometimes, informal carers
Ref: The National Board of Health and Welfare. Report ”Anhöriga som ger omsorg
till närstående”, August 2012.

7. ACTION is an acronym for
Assisting Carers using Telematics Interventions
to meet Older People’s Needs.
The service was developed in 1997 by the University of Borås
together with universities and care providers in England, Northern
Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and Portugal.

8. ”Gapet” - ICT - Bridging the gap – Linking health
care in regions with social care in municipalities
and integrate informal carers
• Started 2009
• Carers: 16-89 years, 100 different diagnosis
• More than 2000 users

9. Karin 83 years old Halland
”I receive messages from children and grandchildren, it’s very
pleasant, the ippi is my computer”
Social
interactions:
Communication
via smart
phones, PC,
webcams on one
end to the
normal TV set at
home on the
other end, and
vice versa.

10. Sten’s vision: Independence for
everyone, free to eat by yourself!
• Controlled by the user
through finger, foot, mouth
or head control.
• Advanced movements to
reduce spilling
• Small and portable to
bring to restaurants or
outdoor
• Quite and discreet design
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11. Social Alarms – a sector under strategic development
Digital tools & systems open up for new services and
new integration with homecare and healthcare
Photo:
Jesper Lindström
Hjälpmedelsinstitutet

12. Social Alarms with GPS
Localizing and to support a person who lost his/her orientation
Posifon

13. European
Innovation Partnership:
pilot on
Active & Healthy Ageing
Steering key documents:
Europe 2020, Innovation Union, Strategic Implementation Plan
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14. Current State of Play of the EIP on AHA
• 500 commitments
• 300 leading organisations
• 1000 regions & municipalities
• 30 million citizens & 2 million of patients involved
• Marketplace more than 30000 visits and more than
650 registered users
• 1 billion euro mobilised
• 39 innovative good practices (reference sites)

15. Results of the Second Invitation for Commitments
• Received 310 commitments
• All 27 EU MS are more actively involved than in the first call
• In almost all new commitm. health providers are involved (circa 271)
• Public authorities (national, regional, local) are involved in 170
commitments
• SME's are involved in 130 commitments
• Large industry is involved in 79 commitments

16. The commitments per action group
120
100 107
80
60 68
40
37 39
34
20 25
0
A1: A2: A3: Action for B3: C2: D4:
Prescription Personalised prevention of Replicating Development Innovation for
and health functional and tutoring of Age-friendly
adherence management, decline and integrated interoperable buildings,
action at starting with frailty care for independent cities &
regional level a Falls chronic living environments
Prevention diseases, solutions,
Initiative including including
remote guidelines for
monitoring at business
regional level models

17. Main Message:
” See the challenges of
demographic ageing (also) from
the innovation and the economic
growth perspective ”

18. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION
Silas Olsson
HealthAccess
Sweden
Email: silas.olsson@healthaccess.eu
Mobile: 0046-70-5800901