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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Open Age Online
Delivering group activities to older people, off and online, to keep them socially connected, healthier, happier and having fun for longer.
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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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Peoplehood
Working with citizens and partners to develop a menu of services and products which enable people to live independently, with a wide range of initiatives that help people maintain their health and wellbeing.
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Re-dressing Ageism in Fashion
Consumers in later life often feel excluded from mainstream fashion because ageing is not positively represented by the industry. This project addresses ageism in fashion by raising awareness of the problem amongst big brands and the wider industry. It provides innovative solutions to the challenges ageism poses to businesses, for example how to include older models in ways that retain a brand’s appeal to younger people.
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Re-imagining LGBTQ+ Multigenerational Communities
This project aims to address mental health and isolation in both older community members and university students by bringing together older LGBTQ+ community members and university students through visual arts workshops, befriending schemes, and community researcher development. Central to this project is comics: a source of nostalgia, humour, and a useful multi-generational reference point.
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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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Reviewing Physical Activity in Older Adulthood
Challenging negative ageing stereotypes to encourage the physical activity industry to better cater for older adults and increase participation.
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Self-care service covering health, welbeing, safety and independence
A comprehensive and scalable all-in-one platform that provides carers with the information they need to deliver more effective and efficient care, whilst encouraging self-care. It promotes health, wellbeing, safety and independence to support people throughout their ageing journey.
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Shine Public Health: Using an innovative technological platform to increase levels of physical activity and quality of life
Using an innovative technological platform to increase levels of physical activity, improve quality of life and reduce long-term healthcare costs.
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Squiboon
Squiboon uses cutting-edge conversational and generative AI approaches combined into a SaaS platform and an android app that facilitates community meetings in care homes and retirement villages, empowering older adults to come together independently for face-to-face conversations, skills sharing and community participation and citizenship activities. The platform offers housing and care providers valuable insights into community engagement, participation, wellbeing and consultation.
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Storytelling games for social connection and reminiscing by older people
Loneliness in older adults is a growing problem and is linked to dementia, heart disease, poor mental health and early death. This project explores the introduction of game-based approaches such as storytelling, reminiscing, and capturing and celebrating lives, creating connections and shared social experiences through in-person or remote play. The project is co-designed with older adults of lower socioeconomic status, ensuring an accessible, low cost and inclusive solution.
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Sustainable and nuTritious food Consumption for Older Adults (COAST)
Our service aims to improve the overall eating environment for older adults and reduce stigma by avoiding placing responsibility on an individual. We will work with food producers, suppliers to care-homes and the NHS, supermarkets, and consumers to change the availability, accessibility and acceptability of products that support the health of older adults.
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Tabletop Travel: immersive dining experiences to improve wellbeing and nutrition for older adults
Tabletop Travels aims to improve both the wellbeing and nutrition for older adults who are housebound or living in care settings. Tabletop Travels is an immersive dining experience focusing on diverse food cultures and places. It aims to both stimulate storytelling and widen the experiential possibilities for those with limited access to other cultures.
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Tackling the loneliness epidemic amongst older people
Tackling the loneliness epidemic amongst older people with a personalised, matching, introduction, and ongoing support service so lonely older people can rebuild their ‘sympathy group’ with meaningful friends of all ages.
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Tendertec & Fitbees: Home sensors and wearable tech to motivate and support physical activity
FitBees: Combines AI home sensors and wearable technologies, motivational encouragement, and local community connections to support physical activity that engages ‘under-represented’ groups.
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The Tribe Project
Led by Bronze Software Labs, the mission of the Tribe project is to address national care inequality at the local level.
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Turning communities into caregivers
A digital platform that organises care for people in need, which includes a fundraising platform, coordinated task lists, patient-to-patient and caregiver-to-caregiver messaging and links to local and national product and service providers.
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Uber for Volunteering
onHand – Uber for Volunteering: Creating an uber or Airbnb for volunteering on a national scale – making it easier for vetted volunteers to give help, while making it quicker and cheaper for older people to receive help.
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WeWALK: Self-calibrating navigation system to help with visual impairment
Developing a self-calibrating navigation system using a ‘smart’ device that affixes to existing white canes to help those visually impaired to navigate safely indoors and out.
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Wise connections: co-designing places to support creative ageing
As we grow older, the opportunities to keep growing our creative capabilities and participate in social, cultural and economic life are reduced.