Dubai to host the 7th edition of AccessAbilities Expo (AAE) in October

Three-day accumulation to diagnostic 270 exhibitors, brands, and rehabilitation centers

Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed: “We are committed to empowering People of Determination and enhancing the UAE's estimation arsenic a planetary person successful improving their prime of life”

WHO projects 2 cardinal radical with disabilities by 2050

Over 2 cardinal radical volition necessitate astatine slightest 1 assistive merchandise by 2030

Several aged radical whitethorn request 2 oregon much assistive products by 2030

Day-to-day life, attraction and rehabilitation is acceptable to amended further this twelvemonth for People of Determination whose planetary numbers present stands astatine 1.3 cardinal and is projected to emergence to 2 cardinal by 2050. This increase, according to statistic and forecasts by the World Health Organization (WHO), is to aggregate factors including ageing, diseases, wars, and illiteracy.

In the Middle East portion which has implicit 50 cardinal People of Determination, enactment remains successful advancement towards bettering their lives done inclusion utilizing precocious technologies and innovative rehabilitation initiatives to amended their independency and guarantee wider levels of prime of life.

The AccessAbilities Expo, hosted annually successful Dubai, has been helping their empowerment, addressing their needs, and helping recognize the UAE’s larger imaginativeness of ensuring dignity and prime of beingness for these members of the community.

The Arab world’s astir vibrant system aspires to beryllium the satellite person successful supporting and empowering People of Determination done the unwavering enactment of its authorities entities and the relentless efforts of the backstage assemblage successful providing top-notch services for this conception of nine and visitors with disabilities from astir the world.

The 7^th variation of AccessAbilities Expo (AAE) volition instrumentality spot from October 6 to 8 astatine the Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC), spanning 12,000 quadrate meters successful Halls 6, 7, and 8. This year’s lawsuit is expected to big astir 270 planetary exhibitors, brands, and rehabilitation centers from 50 countries, for implicit 15,000 visitors from much than 70 nations. Additionally, respective organizations volition enactment to showcase their contributions and enactment successful respective domains.

Local and International Government Organizations Benefiting from Technologies Showcase astatine Expo to Enhance Services for People of Determination

His Highness Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, President of the Dubai Civil Aviation Authority, Chairman of Dubai Airports, Chairman and Chief Executive of Emirates Airline and Group and AAE Patron, said:  “Driven by our unwavering committedness to realizing the imaginativeness of our omniscient leadership, which aims to marque Dubai and the UAE the astir inclusive and empowering destination for People of Determination, I americium pleased to denote that Dubai volition big the 7^th  edition of the AccessAbilities Expo from October 6 to 8.

He added: “In 2024, the 6^th variation of the Expo has been a singular success, featuring information from implicit 250 exhibitors, brands, and rehabilitation centers from much than 50 countries. The lawsuit attracted diplomatic representatives based successful the UAE and delegates from ministries, authorities, and authorities departments from assorted nations, including the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Oman, and India.”

These participants gathered nether 1 extortion to speech ideas, physique collaborative relationships, and research the latest technologies designed to service millions of People of Determination worldwide. Sheikh Ahmed said: “AccessAbilities Expo besides addressed captious issues, specified arsenic the expanding prevalence of autism, presenting important challenges to societies globally. It reinforced the value of inclusive acquisition and accessible question and tourism, and showcased innovations successful rehabilitation.”

The accent connected innovation successful assistive technologies is important for improving the prime of beingness for much than 50 cardinal People of Determination surviving successful the Middle East. “By hosting this one-of-a-kind lawsuit successful the region, helium said, Dubai has solidified its presumption arsenic a planetary hub for assistive technologies and rehabilitation services, portion reaffirming its committedness arsenic a metropolis that prioritizes humanity and ensures nary 1 is near behind.”

Innovative Products to Support All Disabilities

The event, organized by Nadd Al Shiba PR and Event Management, volition showcase cutting-edge products, including respective technologies being presented for the archetypal clip successful the Middle East, aimed astatine empowering People of Determination and enhancing their abilities. As the archetypal and largest lawsuit of its benignant successful the Middle East, AccessAbilities Expo serves arsenic a salient level for manufacturers and distributors of assistive products and brings precocious technologies and rehabilitation initiatives for People of Determination.

4,500 Global Assistive Technologies

AccessAbilities Expo volition diagnostic implicit 4,500 precocious technologies designed to enactment individuals with mobility, visual, auditory, intelligence disabilities, and autism spectrum disorder. These innovations play a important relation successful empowering People of Determination, who represent 10-15 percent of the colonisation successful each country.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), lone 1 successful 10 individuals who necessitate assistive exertion has entree to it, owed to precocious costs, deficiency of awareness, unavailability, insufficient trained staff, and ineffective policies. Assistive exertion encompasses systems and services for delivering enactment products that assistance individuals support oregon heighten their functionality and independence, thereby improving wide well-being. Assistive products see proceeding aids, wheelchairs, connection aids, eyeglasses, prosthetics, and regular surviving immunodeficiency for tasks specified arsenic medicine absorption and representation improvement.

Currently, much than 1 cardinal radical worldwide necessitate 1 oregon much of these assistive products. Experts successful disablement enactment foretell that over 2 cardinal people volition request astatine slightest 1 assistive merchandise by 2030, with galore aged individuals requiring 2 oregon more. A caller WHO study connected assistive technology revealed that 90% of those successful request globally are incapable to entree it. The report, which surveyed 70 countries, highlighted important gaps successful work proviso and workforce training, peculiarly successful areas specified arsenic cognition, communication, and self-care.

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