Projects
This is a searchable directory of the projects that were supported under the Healthy Ageing Challenge. You can explore projects by keyword, Healthy Ageing theme, region and workstream.
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Learning disability and dementia - supporting transition to a care home
People with a learning disability are at increased risk of dementia at a younger age. This project will co-develop a new resource for people with a learning disability and dementia to understand the personal outcomes that individuals want from their accommodation and support. The long-term vision is that care homes welcome older people with a learning disability and dementia into an environment where staff are trained and confident to provide appropriate support.
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Music in Mind Remote (Digital delivery of music activities to people living with dementia)
Music in Mind Remote (MIMR): Digital delivery of music activities to help people living with dementia express themselves and communicate with others, improving daily life and enabling new connections to be made.
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My Day: A Digital Dementia Toolkit to assist with day to day living and planing for the future
Dementia is a brain disease that gets worse over time and for which there is currently no cure. Most people live with dementia at home, managing as best they can.
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Natural language processing-based knowledge base and chatbot for people with dementia and caregivers
Access to a fully comprehensive dementia knowledge base via an easy-to-use chatbot and voice-based conversations, to provide those living with dementia and their caregivers answers to their questions anytime, helping to manage the condition.
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New model of self-care in continence management
An innovative and non-invasive incontinence monitor that remotely detects an episode and prompts a well-managed care response across the care system.
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Non-invasive digital Alzheimer's test
The NeuroMotor PenTM(NMP) is a patented platform technology that combines sensor technologies with decision support software. The interface enables users to non-invasively record and analyse parameters of minute limb and hand motion during drawing and writing movements. The overall project goal is to optimise and validate NMP for screening of dementia symptoms and differentiating between mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s/dementias.
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Nurolight bright light therapy to promote good sleep
Nurolight for age friendly homes builds upon novel research into the effects of bright light therapy (BLT) on people living with dementia and their carers coupled with advancements in domestic smart lighting, sensing technology and machine learning.
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Patient Safety Research Centre: Empowering older people to avoid medication-related harm via a co-produced community pharmacy solution
This is a new pharmacy alert system microservice that notifies pharmacy staff if a patient has a visual impairment by displaying a logo on the patient’s medication record. Alongside this, the accompanying FLAG-Me Vision website collates access to information and strategies to improve medication safety that pharmacists can explore with their patients during 1:1 consultations.
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Physical activity, social connectivity and dementia
Physical activity programmes have been shown to have many benefits for people living with dementia. This research project aims to better understand the experiences and benefits of providing physical activity within dementia-friendly communities across England. It also looks at the barriers to participation and provision of activities. The overall aim is to guide communities on best practice so they can provide better physical activity provision for people affected by dementia.
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Platform to ensure older adults get the care, products and services they need
Integrated Human-Centred Care Access for Older People: Creating the Care Access (CA) Platform to facilitate exchanges between older adults and organisations so that they get the care, products and services they need.
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PPP Taking Care Ltd
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.
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Providing support for people living with cognitive issues, their carers, and families
Providing support for people living with cognitive issues, their carers, and families through a community-based resource centre offering adult learning and social engagement along with preventative health and therapy when they need it, day or night.
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ReadClear: Making Reading Real
ReadClear is an evidence-based reading aid developed by scientists at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology in the UK. ReadClear can improve reading in people with brain-related visual difficulties resulting from neurological conditions, such as stroke or dementia. ReadClear has been co-produced with people living with Posterior Cortical Atrophy.
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Reinventing the future of homecare
Developing a solution to the care crisis – an alternative model using a concept known as self-managing wellbeing support teams. Building a complete operating system needed for a network of self-managing teams to support people in later life to thrive at home.
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Remembering Yesterday: To improve social connectivity and day-to-day life
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.
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Social Exergaming: Co-developing a platform to help older adults with mild memory problems maintain functional independence
Co-developing a social exergaming platform to help older adults with mild memory problems maintain functional independence.
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Supportive environments for Physical and social Activity, healthy ageing and CognitivE health (SPACE)
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.
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Talk-More: Device to monitor talking time for speech recovery after stroke
The ‘Talk-More’ device is a pedometer for talking. This will act as a means of monitoring talking time to motivate people to increase their talking time to improve their rehabilitation. The aim is for the device to be used by clinical speech and language therapists, researchers and stroke survivors and their families.
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TapTrack: Monitoring symptoms of Parkinson's disease to improve quality of life
TapTrack is a home monitoring device that accurately quantifies a common clinical test used in the management of Parkinson’s disease. Through a simple 30 second test, users can objectively monitor their current level of functional performance. The solution empowers people with Parkinson’s to choose how to live life optimally and identify when changes are necessary.
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Tech in Care: Providing care services technology in an effective, cost efficient way
Hospital to Home; an Extension into Intermediate Care and Universal Interoperability: Facilitating patient journeys from discharge to home assessment.
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Transforming the lives of those living with dementia, their carers and families with music, using digital technology
Scaling digital technology into care homes and transforming the lives of those living with dementia, their carers and families with music.