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 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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Exploring how to use mixed reality & telepresence technology to tackle loneliness and reduce feelings of social isolation
1.5 million people aged over 50 in the UK suffer from chronic loneliness. Using co-design workshops and low-fi prototypes, this project explores how mixed reality (MR) technology may help tackle loneliness, for example enabling us to gather remotely with friends and family across immersive virtual worlds.
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Exploring the feasibility of introducing a senior co-housing model to meet the future needs of older people
Exploring the feasibility of introducing a senior cohousing model to enhance their sense of wellbeing, reduce loneliness and isolation, maintain activity and engagement. Helping older people to stay healthier for longer and enjoy continued personal autonomy and independence.
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Generating Older Active Lives Digitally (GOALD)
This project, led by the University of Stirling in collaboration with the University of Plymouth’s Centre for Health Technology, aims to improve access to online resources for older people in a bid to enhance lifecourse health and well-being.
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Golf in Society: Golf Clubs as Healthy Ageing/Research Hubs
Transforming golf clubs into research hubs to discover the best golfing interventions to improve health and strength in those that are frail and living with dementia.
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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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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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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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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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Hospitality Connect: The role of Local Hospitality Businesses in Connecting Lives and Building Communities
Exploring ways that cafes and pubs might be transformed into age-friendly spaces that could help reduce levels of loneliness and social isolation among older adults.
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IDEAL (Interaction, Dementia and Engagement in Arts for Lifelong learning)
Working with Equal Arts, the IDEAL project helps artists and social enterprises to run interventions and activities for people living with dementia (PwD). In the form of workshops, these activities offer a creative outlet for PwD thus encouraging increased agency and sense of social identity. The project investigates new workshop activities and settings, and effective ways for managing engagement. This will lead to a new training service with materials, and an online programme.
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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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InCommon Foundation: Scaling Intergenerational Connection
Supporting more partner organisations to run intergenerational programmes, adapted to their particular communities, to improve older people’s connection to their communities and wellbeing.
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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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Making cricket accessible for everyone, anytime and anywhere
Making cricket accessible for everyone, anytime and anywhere to support physical and mental health – specifically to one of the communities it needs the most – people from the South Asian ethnicity with a focus on women.
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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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MediprospectusAI
Co-designing an AI-based television-enabled application (TEA) that can adapt a home television set to increase social connectivity and address loneliness.
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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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OnHand: Uber for Volunteering
Scaling award winning innovation to matching vetted volunteers with older adults and vulnerable people who need help with simple tasks, including closer contact and in-home support such as light gardening, while providing important companionship.