In the Indian 2011 census, the elderly population age 60 and above accounted for 8.6% of the total population (103 million). This is projected to rise to 19.5% (319 million) by 2050. The proportion of the people aged 75 and above is expected to increase by 340% between 2011 and 2050. The demographic/ epidemiological shift will further overburden our health care systems. The need of the hour is to promote'Healthy ageing' as per WHO (decade commitment 2021-2030) to decrease the burden of chronic health conditions and improve quality of life of the older persons.

Welcome to the Intelligent Assistive Technology and Systems Lab (IATSL), located in the Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy at the University of Toronto. We are a multi-disciplinary group of researchers with backgrounds in engineering, computer science, occupational therapy, speech-language pathology, and gerontology. Our goal is to develop zero-effort technologies that are adaptive, flexible, and intelligent, to enable users to participate fully in their daily lives. We have an opening for an enthusiastic post-doctoral fellow to work on computer vision, signal processing, and video analysis algorithms for applications in sleep monitoring and medical diagnosis. Please read more about this position here at http://www.cs.toronto.edu/