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Author: Future Agenda | https://www.futureagenda.org
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New perspectives on the future are gained from multiple expert discussions around the world. Our ten year foresights offer rich, insightful views on some of the most important changes shifts – and challenges - that lie ahead.
Medical tourism goes mainstream as low-cost cardiac surgery and broader healthcare provision join dentistry and cosmetic surgery to have global impact. Switzerland has long been a centre for medical holidays – a place where the rich have gone for relaxation and treatment. Over the past few decades, it also became a centre for more surgical vacations, often focused on providing cosmetic enhancement for its customers. In a similar vein, both South Africa and Brazil are also well known as places to go to get good quality cosmetic surgery. London, LA and Miami are also renowned as centres of cosmetic excellence.…
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Stopping mental degradation from Alzheimer’s makes quality ageing more possible by improving cognition and slowing the rate of decline. In our discussions, one of the big bets for the future in the health arena that many are focused on is being able to halt the rise of Alzheimer’s disease. This disease is a physical condition affecting the brain and is the most common cause of dementia. Today, worldwide, 35 million people have Alzheimer’s and, as the ageing demographic shift has greater impact, this is projected to rise to 115 million by 2050. There is currently no cure for Alzheimer’s disease.…
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We are likely to see two to three major pandemics start in regions with limited public healthcare and rapidly spread globally and so demand fast response. Since the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918, which killed over 50 million people and infected 500 million others, national governments have had an eye on the risks from widespread pandemics. With the advent of SARS a decade ago, the avian flu pandemic in Asia in 2007 and the swine flu (H1N1) pandemic that started in Mexico in 2009, the incidence and impacts of such events are causing more and more concern at international levels.…
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Enhanced functionality will shift from an external add-on to an integrated capability to provide the option for superhuman performance. A potentially controversial topic raised when looking at the future relates to the advances being made in replacement organs and limbs. Different people have varied perspectives on where this is going and what the mass impacts will be. Some point to the high-tech developments that have taken place in prosthetics over the past few years, which have allowed people to regain near full limb movement. Some take this further in a military context and mix in the topic of exoskeletons as…
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Robotic assisted care and remote monitoring provide economically viable support for the sick and elderly so people can stay home for longer. One of the key challenges for healthcare providers is to provide ongoing medical support of the elderly and the chronically sick at home. Given that people are living longer and the costs of hospital-based care are so great, or, as in the case of many emerging economies, simply not available, many countries are increasingly focused on providing solutions that help people within their own space. The traditional approach to this has been through using carers who either live…
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