Health tech can help reframe ageing as an opportunity, not a problem

Edinburgh’s new Global Research Institute in Health and Care Technologies is working on solutions that will enable many more people to age well, writes Professor Alan Gow

Imagine being able to live a healthy, active life for 25 or more years after retiring.

As one of the academic leads on healthy ageing at Heriot-Watt University’s new Global Research Institute in Health and Care Technologies, my role includes empowering older people to direct our research towards the things that are most important to them.

We have a team of more than 60 academics within the research institute focused on ageing, with projects that span the…