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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Change in Memory: Herbal self-care in menopause
Menopause is a natural part of women’s ageing but can present physical and psychological symptoms that may persist for several years. These are often experienced with little support. Common symptoms include hot flashes, sleep problems, and low mood. Problems with memory and concentration in particular can make working life challenging. This project tackles memory and concentration problems by investigating the potential value of treatments using rosemary extracts, which may alter brain chemistry to help improve memory.
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CHERIE: Community Health Education, screenIng and prEvention
GP practices are the gateway to accessing healthcare, but they are inaccessible to many people who live in deprived neighbourhoods. CHERIE (Community Health Education, scReenIng and prEvention) aims to establish outreach clinics delivered by organisations that are embedded within communities, to provide health education, screen people for risk factors of cardiometabolic diseases, and diagnose and manage them.
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Co-developing a meaningful digital platform to enhance mobility of community-dwelling older adults
Working with supported-living older residents, this is an explorative study of what is wanted and needed to sustain mobility.
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Co-developing a peer-to-peer mentorship program with people living with dementia
Social isolation, loneliness and stigma are some of the most detrimental psychosocial effects of living with and supporting someone with Lewy Body Disease (LBD). Peer mentorship between newly diagnosed people with LBD and more experienced people with LBD has the potential to reap extremely positive effects for both parties, and their care partners. This social enterprise will co-develop a peer mentorship program with people with LBD, to be delivered over video-conference technology.
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Complete care companion utilising gamification, machine learning and automation
A new kind of scalable digitally enabled home care service to support people to remain socially connected, independent and active for longer, using gamification machine learning and automation.
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Connecting our communities, sharing our memories
A platform for connecting communities to reduce social isolation through making friendships around common interests and backgrounds as well as connecting to real world events and activities.
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Connecting Through Culture As We Age
Connecting through culture as we age: arts and technology collaborations to support healthy ageing – identifying 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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Continuous monitoring of vascular age
Long term vascular ageing presents a challenge to healthy ageing initiatives because its signs often go undetected. This project develops low-cost methods for the monitoring of ‘vascular age’ using wearables similar to fitness bracelets and smart watches, or by designing a prototype device using available components. Further testing with people of different ages with vascular disease, under different conditions, can then establish if low-cost devices can be used for continuous monitoring over longer periods.
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Counselling People with Dementia: An accessible, community-based model
This project involves people living with dementia, carers and counsellors in the creation of a tiered counselling package. The package will aim to tackle stigma around dementia in the public services, communities, and businesses, and allow the individual to choose where they access support. Addressing the gap in counselling provision for people living with dementia and their carers, the project develops an accessible service model that can significantly improve the mental health of those affected by the condition.
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Damn It! Dance It! Shaping creative, movement workshops for and by older people
Shaping creative, movement workshops for and by older people to help sustain physical activity, encourage strong social connections and challenge age-related stereotypes in a new and innovative way.
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Dance to Health: the national falls prevention dance programme
Dance to Health, an arts-based exercise programme for the health sector which ‘smuggles’ exercise into local groups and since Covid-19 digitally via Zoom classes and DVD’s for areas with poor broadband.
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Dedicate: Building the skillset of unpaid carers
Dedicate is an AI-powered 24/7 virtual care partner platformthat supports carers to lead more empowered lives through round the clock trustworthy advice and guidance on care related questions for the person they care for and themselves. We empower carers and those they care for to have better informed and healthier lives through expert, personalised guidance on care-related tasks and challenges of daily living presented by a virtual assistant (VA).
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Democratising Access to Community Services using ALISS (DACS)
Scotland has a national digital programme, ALISS – A Local Information System for Scotland, which helps people to find the services, resources, activities and groups that they need to live well and stay connected to their community.
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Designing and delivering a new service for the socially isolated who also struggle with technology
Designing and delivering a new service for the socially isolated, who also struggle with technology, combining existing befriending and tech-support volunteers into an integrated single service that enables social connections and up-skilling technical skills.
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Designing Homes for Healthy Cognitive Ageing (DesHCA)
Identifying 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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Developing a set of digital tools to provide anticipatory care for people living with dementia
We will develop a digital anticipatory care tool (ACT) to positively impact dementia patients by reducing clinical interventions, hospital admissions, and enhancing their quality of life. As a non-pharmaceutical ‘first line’, our digital tools will enable caregivers with a tool to fulfill better outcomes such as improved cognition, confidence, mood and relationships
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Developing ambient assistive technology to help social housing landlords manage their assets and empower their customers to live independently
Developing a dual functionality AAT (ambient assistive technology) tool that enables social housing landlords to manage their assets more effectively and empowers their customers to live.
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Developing an emergency support solution which predicts and prevents health problems
Developing the Personal Alarm Watch from an emergency support solution to one which predicts and prevents health problems using machine learning.
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Developing an MND oral health care pathway and toolkit
This project is developing a motor neurone disease (MND) oral health care pathway and toolkit providing 1) resources for MND patients, carers and dental professionals to better understand the challenges associated with MND, 2) guidance supporting self-care and carers to maintain good oral health for MND patients, 3) pathway to access dental care with a self-referral process 4) develop a series of hands-free toothbrushes.
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Developing an online wellbeing support platform for unpaid carers of older adults
In the UK over 7 million unpaid carers are supporting relatives, partners or friends with daily living tasks. Many feel unsupported and inadequately informed. This project develops an online platform where unpaid carers can take cohort-based courses to help improve their wellbeing. Weekly course content is deliberately brief and is designed to embed behaviour change. Carers also join a group chat with peers and a coach so they can ask questions and receive emotional support.
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Development of an App to engage patients at risk of osteoarthritis
Osteoarthritis is a degenerative joint disease, characterised by cartilage loss, for which there is no cure. This project aims to develop an App to track and monitor additional information about joint trauma patients during their recovery. This resource would be invaluable to the scientific community, clinicians and the pharmaceutic industry to provide better healthcare early on and enable healthy ageing.