Taiwan is entering an aged society, and the senior popularity percentage is already over 14%. It will be a heavy burden for young people since by average every 1.2 of them have to raise 1 senior person in 2060 according to the statistic. In order to lift some pressure from future generation, Taipei Tech put a lot of effort into long-term care market and some R&D products are ready for mass production. Reporters from Formosa TV are on campus for interviewing two of our wonderful products.

Dr. Yi-Hung Liu and his research team at the Department of Mechanical Engineering took 1 year and a half to develop a device that can read brain waves in order to help patients suffering from motorneuron diseases to communicate. Wearing the head-mounted device, patients can think their request and a magnifier will amplify their brain waves and transmit it into computer to be calculated with a special algorithm. This way, caregiver can know what exactly patients need whether it is a bit to eat or a desire of watching news. Another device that was also developed by Dr. Liu’s team is one can tell whether people have the inclination of Depression or Dementia through reading their brain waves.

Dr. Meng-Cong Zheng and his research team at the Department of Industrial Design found that it took five people in average to assist one senior in wheel chair to engage in gardening activity. But with their refined flower-stand called ElderGreen, it only requires 1 teacher and 1 person to make 6-student class work. 6 trapezoidal-shaped stands can form a circle enables teacher to stand in the center giving instructions.

Both designs intend to make long-term care easier. In addition to this, Taipei Tech expects to make more differences by cooperating with medical institutions such as Tri-Service General Hospital Beitou Branch, MacKay Memorial Hospital, Taipei Venteran General Hospital Su-Ao & Yanshan Branch, National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Science, and so on.