Researchers from Makerere University College of Computing and Information Sciences (CoCIS), led by a second-year PhD student Paddy Junior Asiimwe have designed a device to monitor elderly people with dementia and cognitive impairment in rural Uganda. The device, wearable by the elderly (on the hand like a wrist watch or placed in the pocket), will […]
Jacob Mobolaji (Cohort Eight graduate, Obafemi Awolowo University) presented on ‘multidimensional deprivation among older persons in Nigeria: implication for poor health outcomes in later life’ at a workshop on Ageing and Health of Older Persons in Sub-Saharan Africa. The workshop was held between February 19 – 23, 2023 in Entebbe, Uganda, and sought to increase the […]
People worldwide are living longer. Today most people can expect to live into their sixties and beyond. Every country in the world is experiencing growth in both the size and the proportion of older persons in the population. The World Health Organization estimates that the world will have 1.4 billion old persons by 2030. Older […]