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From: "Leon Gilbert" <BlindNews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 5:22 AM
Subject: BlindNews: Aid devices for elderly and disabled


> MCOT News, Thailand
> Thursday, March 17, 2005
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> Aid devices for elderly and disabled
>
> BANGKOK, Mar 17 (TNA) - Extensive use of technology to develop devices for
senior citizens and disabled people will play a vital role in improving
their quality of life, the director of the National Electronics and Computer
Technology Centre (NECTEC), Taweesak Koanantakool, said on Wednesday.
>
> Senior citizens will make up more than 10 percent of the Thai population
by the end of this year, while the disabled will be about10 percent, he
said.
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> One in four of the elderly will suffer from some form of disability, he
noted.
>
> Another six percent of them will be dependent on other people, said Mr.
Taweesak, during a seminar at the Public Health Ministry.
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> The government is currently working on three projects -- a reading aid for
blind people, a hearing aid using solar energy and a robotic machine for
remote eye surgery, Dr Pannate Pangwuthiphong, Director of Metta Pracharak
Hospital, or known as Wat Rai Khing Hospital, in the central province of
Nakhon Pathom, told the seminar.
>
> Dr Daranee Suwaphan, Director of the Sirindhorn National Medical
Rehabilitation Centre, urged inventors and researchers to produce medical
equipment that would help lower the cost of treatment for the elderly and
the disabled in Thailand, and reduce the import of expensive equipment.
>
> She said the production of artificial knee joints, wheelchairs and walkers
could potentially be made in Thailand.
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> (TNA)--E009, E002
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