Volume : IX, Issue : VII, July - 2020

Status of Assistive devices and technologies in India

Kirtan Rana, Priya Thappa

Abstract :

Assistive devices (AD) are the products build to help people to make their daily work accomplished and technologies are means by which they can use those devices to accomplish their routine work. AD is needed by a variety of people to overcome their disabilities which can happen due to senile change, accidents, congenital malformations, or an outcome of some chronic disease in the form of loss of limb or any other organ. With an increase in the non–communicable diseases, an increase in the proportion of the population in the geriatric age group, and an increase in the life expectancy of human beings the need for AD has increased many folds. With the advancement in technology, the imagination of developing prototype devices has reached far but the production of the same on large scale to suffice the needs of the needy is a major challenge till now. The unmet need of assistive devices for those who require them is very high (90% as per WHO in 2019) and most of those who get it stops using it in the future because of problems with its design, adaptability, flexibility, maintenance cost or other related issues. Developing assistive devices and technologies should involve the novelty of reaching to the needy at an affordable cost in purchasing and maintenance and easy use technology. The government of India has taken many measures (policies, assistance schemes, research for generating knowledge) to meet the need for assistive devices in the country but a lot more things need to be done to achieve Universal health coverage.

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STATUS OF ASSISTIVE DEVICES AND TECHNOLOGIES IN INDIA, Kirtan Rana, Priya Thappa PARIPEX-INDIAN JOURNAL OF RESEARCH : Volume-9 | Issue-7 | July-2020

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