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.
About the project
Good Boost is a social enterprise specialising in AI-personalised exercise programmes for older adults living with disabilities and musculoskeletal disorders (MSKDs), including arthritis, back pain and pre/post hip and knee replacement surgery.
The innovation is to gamify strength, functional balance and neuromuscular exercise to create repeated activity and long-term behaviour change with augmented reality exercise games. The programme will be delivered in leisure centres on land and in pools, aimed at adults 55+ to increase participation and measurable improvement of muscle strength, balance and reduction of falls risk.
The development of the gamified exercise program builds on Good Boost’s existing computer-vision technology and relationships with the leisure/retirement sector. This will achieve a novel approach to fall prevention that encourages older adults to engage regularly to build and maintain their strength and balance in community settings. Following trials in leisure/retirement venues, the technology can be made available to use in people’s homes on a laptop or smart device. As a result, increasing regular and suitable exercise that reduces the risk of falls and subsequent hospitalisation and entry into care facilities.