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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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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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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Green Walks: Facilitating access to green spaces for mental health
Green Walks will aid the UK population in finding green spaces within easy walking distance of their homes, while providing incentives to get out of the house by encouraging users to engage with changing natural elements of these green spaces (such plants coming into bloom or seasonal bird migrations), via a co-designed web-based AI search interface and mobile app. Monitoring the user’s progress through GPS, motion data, and quick self-reported mental health cues.
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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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Healthier Working Lives
The project will examine how digital health resources can be designed using intergenerational co-production with older and younger people. The feasibility and impact of delivering these digital products to engage older people in structured activity programmes in the areas of physical activity and sports and leisure reminiscence will be investigated.
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Healthy Ageing in Place: Co-Designing Inclusive Climate Resilient Age-Friendly Cities and Communities
How to mitigate against climate-related extreme weather events, through co-designing and co-producing potential solutions at the local, community, and city level.
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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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Healthy cognitive ageing: Empowering older adults through self-testing at home
From our fifties onwards, people experience increasing cognitive problems. Without support, this affects day-to-day life, activity and wellbeing, so identifying these problems in older adults early is crucial to providing support.
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Healthy Homes, Healthy Lives
Healthy Homes™, Healthy Lives: will design fair and affordable, person-centred financial products for homeowners 55 and over. Helping unlock their asset wealth and make their homes more age-friendly, including energy retrofit, access to renewables, smart technologies for energy monitoring and assistive technologies.
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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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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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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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ICICLES-EV
An inclusive electric vehicle (EV) charging experience for those with mobility issues. The innovative, lightweight design of the cable and gun will reduce the amount of force required to successfully plug in a vehicle and simplify the process of moving and connecting.
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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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Improve Healthy Ageing by Incentivising Activity and Engaging Communities
Encouraging the older generation to be more physically active by earning innovative Civic Dollars that can be exchanged for rewards or donate them to local community groups and charities.
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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.