"This is the future," he said after seeing technology that has been developed in the top two age-related research centres based in Louth.
The county is one of 33 places locations around the world that meet the criteria of the World Health Organisation’s age-friendly cities network.
Mr Duffy is chairing the Age-Friendly Business Forum in Louth, which launches its action plan today.
"We are way ahead of the game here, and instead of cursing the darkness of the recession, here people are instead doing things," he added.
The Health Buddy technology, already in use in Dundalk, is credited with helping to save two lives.
It is now introducing the Home Sweet Home project, where 60 houses in the county will be fitted with interactive touchscreens and allow people with acute conditions to be monitored interactively in their own homes via Bluetooth technology.
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