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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Evaluating accountability platforms for care
Many developing countries have seen the expansion of private care for older adults in recent years. Often unregulated, care home sectors provide an uneven quality of care. Research by a University of East Anglia team and local partners in the Argentinian city of La Plata has formed the basis for a new online platform. This will provide valuable publicly available information about local care homes based on a set of quality principles and user feedback.
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Evaluating the Lifecurve approach
Research shows that if we keep up activity and exercise consistently from an early enough age, most of us can stay independent at home until the last few months of life. This project is developing Lifecurve, an app tracking the user’s ability to undertake 19 core daily activities. Scores are provided, activity and exercise goals set, encouragement given and data can be compared to others of a similar age. The app has the potential to have significant positive effects on activity levels.
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Eyecatcher: Preventing avoidable blindness through smart home-monitoring of vision
Visual field loss is the primary symptom of glaucoma: a chronic, incurable eye condition that effects 2% of people aged over 40 years (and 10% of people over 75), and which is the 2nd leading cause of irreversible blindness worldwide. Eyecatcher, developed by Irida Health, is an innovative new vision home-monitoring device. It allows glaucoma patients to assess their vision at home, and to automatically share the results with a clinician, via the internet.
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GenInsole: A highly customised therapeutic insole for early diagnosis of diabetic foot ulcers
More than 738 million individuals will have diabetes by 2045, of which 15-34% of them are likely to develop diabetic foot ulcers. GenInsole provides an innovative solution through the design of a highly customised therapeutic insole. The customised insoles can enhance comfort and functionality through an effective foot plantar pressure redistribution.
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Good Boost Wellbeing: Minimising 'drop-out' rates to leisure & community services for older adult exercise, health & wellbeing
Co-designing and developing technology to maximise the ‘engagement routes’ and ‘exit routes’ for older adults with MSK complaints to sustain physical activity and wider health and wellbeing services in leisure and community venues.
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Good Boost: AI-personalised exercise programmes for older adults living with disabilities and musculoskeletal disorders
Specialising in AI-personalised exercise programmes for older adults living with disabilities and musculoskeletal disorders, helping to prevent falls and hospitalisation by encouraging older adults to build and maintain their strength and balance in community settings or at home. Driving long-term behaviour change with augmented reality exercise games.
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Health Companion
Creating a new AI based self-management platform, that addresses health inequalities by meeting the unmet need of BAME communities to self-manage their long-term conditions and improve health and wellbeing through preventative health.
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Healthy Ageing Pharmacogenics and Polypharmacy
The use of 3 or more prescribed medications is called polypharmacy. Pharmacogenetics is the study of how genes affect an individual’s response to drugs and aims to provide information to improve safety and effectiveness of drug treatment. This project aims to demonstrate the clinical utility and assess the health economic benefit of pharmacogenetic analysis in general practice for patients over 50 years of age taking 3 or more medicines.
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Hearing Loss and Place (HeLP)
Understanding and addressing the difficulties people with hearing loss experience in a variety of noisy and distracting places and how these affect attention, cognition, wellbeing and social interaction.
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Hearing Partners
Programme for improving hearing, communication and conversation to enhance social inclusion and productive working lives.
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Holly Health
Combining innovations in behavioural science and adaptive AI to develop a digital coaching service to support older adults to establish and maintain healthy, active, daily habits, at home and in their community. Helping improve both mental and physical health.
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Homes for living
A collaboration between E.ON, Newcastle University, Invisible Creations® and ADL Smartcare to support people to age well so they can stay in their own homes for longer, helping retain their independence and stay connected with their families.
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HoPES (Hope and Prepare Effectively for Surgery): Personalised self-management for managing hip and knee replacement wait lists
Personalised self-management to keep older adults socially connected, in better mental health and physically active as they wait for knee or hip surgery.
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I-Can-Do: Developing digital accessibility for the dementia volunteer service
I-Can-Do is developing digital accessibility for the dementia volunteer service. This project focuses on older people with a recent diagnosis of dementia. It seeks to support people in building their confidence and staying active and socially connected, which can help promote physical and cognitive health and wellbeing, and thus quality of life.
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Improving Quality of Life for Older Autistic People
This project seeks solutions for older autistic people who are dependant on ageing parents, or struggling to find opportunities to develop their skills. Many may also face age discrimination. In partnership with older autistic people, this project builds a set of tools and information aimed at building confidence, making social connections and providing guidance on training and employment.
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Integrated tech to support ageing with diabetes
The University of Sheffield is developing a new tech platform to help monitor diabetes-related markers, including physical activity and cognitive abilities. The platform is a shift away from current unsustainably high demands on diabetes care in the health service. The platform demonstrates a new model, facilitating remote patient monitoring by clinicians and carers and prioritisation of those most in need, targeting the use of NHS resources more efficiently.
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It takes a community to prevent a fall
This project develops a community-based, easily accessible self-referral tool to identify individuals who are at risk of a fall and/or a fracture.
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Koalaa: Soft-orthotics service to help the over 50s adapt to upper-limb impairment
A holistic soft-orthotics service to help the over 50’s adapt to upper-limb impairment and remain mobile, active, independent and socially-connected in the community.
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Leveraging digital phenotyping to support patients with vision loss
Digital phenotyping refers to using smartphone generated data to build a picture about an individual’s lifestyle and health state. This data can help highlight potential health risks. This project is looking at how digital phenotyping can be used to alert care providers and start clinical interventions for those at risk of glaucoma, potentially preventing permanent sight loss.
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Maximising inclusiveness in Sports through Female-centric Innovation and TEchnology (MISFIT)
Using SMART garments to gather data and design exercise regimes to prevent injury and support safe physical activity for older women.
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Memory Matters
Using Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (CST) to create an engaging learning experience to improve the memory, cognitive thinking and communication skills of those living with dementia in order to increase their quality of life.