2018 Johns Hopkins Research Symposium on Engineering in Healthcare

Description

The annual Johns Hopkins Research Symposium on Engineering in Healthcare brings together experts who advocate for leveraging new and emerging technologies to deliver better health care.

The 2018 theme will focus on "Engineering for an Aging Society." The symposium will explore challenges and opportunities faced by aging adults and their care networks as they seek to live independently while maintaining their physical, mental, and emotional health. The goal is to jumpstart a conversation to identify areas where systematic deployment of appropriately designed and targeted technologies that augment social, cognitive, and physical activities can "shift the curve" of age-related decline of life quality, support wellness, and reduce reliance on external support for older adults.