Projects

Dry mouth affects at least 10 million people in the UK, predominantly elders, adversely impacting their nutritional status and quality of life.

Developing an app based ‘transition service’ to help people prepare for and better navigate significant transitions in later life.

Connecting those in the community, especially those at high risk of poor physical and mental health with movement/physical activity opportunities in their local area. Helping the community, individuals and local economy by helping small businesses focused on physical activity to get online for free.

Led by Bronze Software Labs, the mission of the Tribe project is to address national care inequality at the local level.

Building desirable low cost, energy efficient, modular terraced housing for older residents of rural areas, creating capacity for older people to move into more appropriate accomodation.

FitBees: Combines AI home sensors and wearable technologies, motivational encouragement, and local community connections to support physical activity that engages ‘under-represented’ groups.

Lymphoedema (LE) is a debilitating and incurable disease that causes excessive swelling, with huge lifelong physical, psychological, and socioeconomic consequences. Lack of access to sustainable and cost-effective treatment results in their medical needs being neglected and disease progression. LymphMotion changes all this by providing LE patients with a more cost-effective and accessible device. It is the world’s first portable, lightweight, compression jacket, that will revolutionise the way lymphoedema is managed.

Challenging negative ageing stereotypes to encourage the physical activity industry to better cater for older adults and increase participation.  

Hospital to Home; an Extension into Intermediate Care and Universal Interoperability: Facilitating patient journeys from discharge to home assessment.

There are numerous reminiscence activities, apps and interventions available to support older people in recollecting the distant past, but memory for recent events has largely been neglected.

MOVE MORE LIVE MORE: Using a high-tech intervention to reduce the risk of falls and improve wellbeing for over 65s and deliver behaivour change techniques to create new habits of regular activity.

Democratising Access to Community Services (DACS): ALISS – A Local Information System for Scotland – uses AI to help people to search for and share information about services, groups, activities and resources locally and nationally that will help them answer the question, “What keeps you well?”

HeroRehab: An accessible and affordable at-home digital service, utilising live-body tracking, to improve preventative care, functional fitness and mobility of people as they age. Accurately reporting data to clinicians/physios.

Talk2Health Project: Providing an easy-to-use humanised digital assessment and triaging/self-management solution for those living with MSK conditions to reduce pain, maintain mobility and encourage physical activity in an ageing and technology challenged demographic.

Understanding the experiences of those in the workforce going through menopause to create patient-centred digital therapeutics (DTx) solutions to support them throughout their journey.

PhysioWizard: A digital self-assessment tool and software triage platform for people experiencing muscle or joint (MSK) problems, providing tailored advice and guidance to patients on how to self-manage their conditions.

Identify scalable and sustainable design improvements to homes that provide support for healthy cognitive ageing, allowing people to continue living in their homes for longer.

Home based preventative health product supporting the older population to remain in their homes independently and reducing the need for clinical intervention and helping to change outcomes before health deteriorates.

Co-developing a social exergaming platform to help older adults with mild memory problems maintain functional independence.

Smplicare Healthy Ageing as-a-service Platform (HaaS): Digital solutions designed to predict, prevent, and manage common health issues while empowering people to thrive at any age.

ProjectCare: Disrupting the social care industry with a platform to consumer model that gives individuals choice and control over who cares for them and what tasks they do.