TRIL Newsletter April 2009
Welcome to the first TRIL newsletter. The TRIL newsletters will keep you informed of the latest news and developments at the TRIL Centre.
The TRIL Centre’s mission is to discover and deliver technology solutions which support independent living, ideally in a home environment. This will improve the quality of life of older citizens while reducing the burden on carers and on the healthcare system. Funded by Intel and the IDA Ireland, the $30 million project which has begun its third year, has succeeded in bringing together a multi-disciplinary team of approximately 70 researchers.
Ageing Statistics
Over the next 50 years the global population of older people will nearly quadruple. In Ireland, public health costs will rise from 6% of GDP to 9% in 2050. An opportunity to intervene and shift the burden of care from the institution to the home has become a reality. The TRIL Centre's objective is to assist older people to live longer from wherever they call home.
back to top  TRIL Expo 2009 showcases latest research
A very successful TRIL Expo 2009 took place on Thursday, 26 February 2009 at the Science Gallery in Trinity College Dublin. At the Expo, TRIL researchers showcased progress on the TRIL Programme over the last two years from the Centre's core areas of Ethnography, Falls Prevention, Cognitive Function, Social Connection and Technology Platform. Over 60 TRIL Researchers showcased 30 research initiatives at the event including demos and prototypes.
The 200 strong audience included industry, government, academia and older people who took part in TRIL Home Deployments. The invited guest speakers included Barry O'Leary, CEO of IDA (Industrial Development Agency, Ireland); Gordon Graylish, Vice President Sales and Marketing Group, EMEA, Intel; and Professor Paddy Cunningham, Chief Science Advisor to the government.
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back to top TRIL on Irish TV
TRIL’s Building Bridges research project featured on Irish TV station, TV3 on Tuesday 10 February 2009. TRIL’s Co-Director Prof Paddy Nixon and one of TRIL’s Building Bridges participants were interviewed during the feature. The TRIL feature appeared on TV3's morning programme, Ireland AM.
The full feature can be seen on
http://www.tv3.ie/ireland_am.php?video=5483
back to top TRIL Brochure
A brochure on the TRIL Centre is now available. The brochure contains information on the TRIL Research Strands including Ethnography, Falls Prevention, Cognitive Function, Social Connection and the TRIL Technology Platform (TTP).
Click here for the TRIL Brochure
The 24 page booklet also contains information and images on the TRIL Clinic and an example of an older person's journey through the clinic. A description of TRIL's Home Deployments, where the Centre's research initiatives are moved from a clinical setting to an older person's home, is also given. TRIL research initiatives such as Building Bridges, Dear Diary, Engineering Alertness, MuSensor and Falls Biorhythm are also detailed in the brochure.
TRIL Video
The TRIL Video will give you a short, 5 minute introduction to the TRIL Centre.
Click here for the TRIL Video.
back to top Featured Story: Older Person's view of the TRIL Clinic
A detailed look at an older person's experience of going through the TRIL Clinic is described in the TRIL featured story entitled 'The TRIL Clinic - Supporting Healthy Ageing'.
TRIL FEATURED STORY: TRIL CLINIC
When Aidan arrived at the Emergency Department (ED) of St James’s Hospital in Dublin, Ireland, he was experiencing severe hip pain. In his early eighties, Aidan (not his real name) was living alone and had been self-sufficient until a recent fall brought him to the hospital, where the ED staff examined him and determined that no bones were broken. Another hospital might have sent him home with a prescription for painkillers. Instead, Aidan was referred to a unique clinic within St. James’s that focuses on helping older people to remain healthy and independent.
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back to top Visit TRIL exhibit at IAHSA
TRIL Researchers will be showcasing a number of TRIL Research initiatives at the IAHSA Conference in London, which takes place from 20 - 22 July 2009. Both academic and industry representatives will be there. Come and visit our exhibit at the Conference and meet TRIL researchers. The theme of this year's event is 'Leadership Beyond Borders'.
About IAHSA
IAHSA was founded in 1994 by an international group of leaders who realised that the global ageing crisis would have a profound impact on the world's older people. Their vision was to create a platform for policymakers, researchers, business and ageing services providers to collectively share their knowledge and best practices to enhance quality of care for the elderly. Over the years IAHSA has created an international forum for the exchange of research, services, products and training that make up the Global Ageing Network.
Web: www.iahsa.net/london
back to top Version 2 of BioMOBIUS™ Research Platform
Version 2 of the BioMOBIUS™ Research Platform (www.biomobius.org) will be launched by TRIL shortly. TRIL is currently working on an enhanced version of the original Research Platform which will be available in a few months.
The BioMOBIUS™ Research Platform is a combination of hardware, sensors, software, services and a graphical development environment. This platform helps researchers to reduce the time spent on developing foundational technologies, allowing them to focus on their actual research. Ultimately the platform will enable therapists, clinicians and engineers to rapidly develop and deploy technology solutions for biomedical research
A number of Workshops on BioMoBIOUS™ have taken place where TRIL has demonstrated and presented on the platform. These include the Intel Amberglen Oregon and the EMBC Worskhop in Vancouver both in August 2008. more>>
back to top TRIL Research Paper accepted to CHI 2009 Workshop
Dr Julie Doyle from the TRIL Technology Platform (TTP) has been invited to present a paper at the CHI 2009 Workshop in Boston on 4 April 2009. The paper, “Do Pattern Languages help us Structure Evaluations in Healthcare Technologies?”, written by Dr. Julie Doyle, Dr. Aaron Quigley and Prof. Paddy Nixon from TRIL, will be presented at the CHI (Computer Human Interaction) 2009 workshop on ‘Evaluating New Interactions in Healthcare: Challenges and Approaches’.
The paper examines how 'as healthcare technologies are becoming increasingly pervasive, moving from controlled clinical and laboratory settings to large numbers of home deployments, new challenges arise in evaluating the impact of healthcare technologies and interactions in their context of use'. The paper looks at the potential benefits of using pattern languages to help structure such evaluations. Pattern languages can capture experience, guidelines and methods for evaluation of new healthcare technologies and ultimately help healthcare professionals and researchers to design effective evaluations.
The workshop will provide an opportunity for participants to share experiences and ideas on how to conduct evaluations that will allow assessment of the overall impact of technology in its context of use.
back to top TRIL Clinic wins prestigious Healthcare award
The TRIL Clinic won a prestigious Irish Healthcare Award 2008 for the Best Use of Information Technology at a ceremony in Dublin on Thursday, 16 October, 2008.
The Irish Healthcare Awards 2008, co-ordinated by the Irish Medical Times, have been developed to recognise and reward people and projects that have made a difference and demonstrate excellence, originality and innovation in the healthcare or pharmaceutical industry over the past year.
The awards ceremony took place at a black-tie ceremony in the Shelbourne Hotel, Dublin. The Irish Minister for Health, Mary Harney was a guest speaker on the night.
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back to top TRIL Centre’s Dr Romero-Ortuno wins Best Presentation at Irish Gerontological Society Meeting.
The TRIL Centre is delighted to announce that Dr Roman Romero-Ortuno from the TRIL Centre won the Best Presentation at the 56th Annual General and Scientific Meeting of the Irish Gerontological Society.
The presentation was entitled "Do Older Pedestrians Have Enough Time to Cross Roads in Dublin? A critique of the DTO Traffic Management Guidelines based on empirical research findings" and was compiled by Dr Roman Romero-Ortuno, Dr Lisa Cogan, Dr Mimi Fan, Clodagh Cunningham, and Prof Rose Anne Kenny.
The event, which took place in Kilkenny in Ireland on 3 and 4 October 2008 was hosted by St. Lukes General Hospital, South Tipperary General Hospital, Wexford General Hospital & Waterford Regional Hospital.
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back to top Intel Chairman and TRIL Clinical Director address key American Ageing Conference
TRIL Clinical Director, Dr Mimi Fan joined Chairman of the Board of Intel, Dr Craig Barrett to address the AAHSA Conference in Philadelphia on the 14 October 2008. Dr Barrett gave a keynote speech at the Conference on ‘Why I care’ and invited Dr Fan to join him on stage to discuss the TRIL Centre and to demonstrate the technology developed within TRIL.
The American Association for Homes and Services for the Ageing’s (AAHSA) (www.aahsa.org) 2008 Meeting and Exposition was held in the Philadelphia Convention Centre. The number of participants at the conference, from exhibitors to service providers, exceeded 8,000.
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back to top TRIL Contact Details
Email: info@trilcentre.org
Phone: +353-1-7165306
Web: www.trilcentre.org
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