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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Understanding Older People's PerspecTives and Imageries of Climate change (OPTIC)
Understanding older people’s climate change perspectives, behaviours, and future visions so that living, working and recreational environments can be shaped and managed effectively for health, wellbeing and sustainability.
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Understanding the views of older adults and people living with Mild Cognitive Impairment on driving and fitness to drive
Ageing and its effects on brain activity can affect the ability to drive and presents a growing concern for both road safety and individual independence, and mobility. For those affected, testing is time-consuming and does not always accurately reflect driving abilities. This project gathers real-world driving behaviour data from people, both with and without mild cognitive impairment, to understand these connections better and help introduce graduate driving licences that better support an evolving condition.
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Unforgettable Experiences: Arts, culture and heritage adventures
Provides cognitive stimulation services through digitally enabled live, creative, and interactive therapeutic artistic sessions online to help older adults to improve their wellbeing, cognitive functioning, social connectedness and enhance their overall quality of life.
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Vira Health & Stella: Managing Menopause for Healthy Ageing
Stella: An app that provides a personalised holistic treatment plan, including learning, coaching and online community activities to help manage menopause and improve health outcomes in later life.
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VRGO & Fyt: Using AI to improve sedentary workforce ageing
Fyt: Technology using innovative smart technologies and AI to effectively motivate employees to be more active through stand-up nudges, stretching exercises and information, via personalisation. Enabling independent self-care.
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Waymap Newcastle
A free, accessible navigation app that works outside, inside and underground to within 1m of the desired location, regardless of GPS signal, to support all users to travel with confidence. Local users in Newcastle will follow turn-by-turn audio instructions reducing anxiety and supporting independent travel and social connection.
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Wearable biosensors to support vaginal health in post-menopausal females
Vaginal infections such as bacterial vaginosis affect over 25% of post-menopausal females, causing pain, poor mental health and increasing the risk of UTIs and endometriosis.
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WeWALK: Developing a smartphone app to provide an accessible navigation and exploration solution or visually impaired users
Developing a smartphone application that provides an accessible navigation and exploration solution for visually impaired users, providing reliable turn-by-turn walking and public transport navigation.
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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.
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XR Therapeutics: Immersive tech to treat ageing population phobias
XRT, a spin out of Newcastle University, based on 9 years of academic research, combines traditional CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) with gradual exposure to treat phobias and anxiety in older adults. Treatment is delivered using VR (Virtual Reality) technology within a fully immersive VR cave.