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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Active Ageing Environments: Embedding physical activity around the place we live
Lives are increasingly sedentary with more time spent indoors and on screens. As we get older lack of physical activity leads to poorer health outcomes. This project engages with industry to better design our physical domestic environment and build opportunities for physical activity into everyday life. How we plan green spaces, walking and cycling connections, and community facilities all have the potential to increase health in our communities.
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Active Care Homes through the Arts Scale Up
Supporting care homes to be more active and healthy places by increasing the activity levels of residents through engaging digital arts content, and providing training and support for care staff.
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Active Families: Scaling Up our Well-bean Machine
Using ‘Well-Bean’ Machines (fully equipped vans) to deliver an innovative exercise outreach service to streets and neighbourhoods with high densities of vulnerable older people, helping to improve and sustain physical and social activity levels for better health and wellbeing.
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AI enabled smart home assistant solution to combat social isolation and loneliness
HomeCare an AI, voice-enabled smart home assistant solution that assists older people in everyday tasks and helps them combat social isolation and loneliness by connecting family, friends, and support services together.
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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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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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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 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 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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Empowering Augmented Mobility of the Aging Population using Computational Musculoskeletal Simulation
The project will develop a computational simulation platform to evaluate elderly people walking with assistive robots and provide quantitative evidence for optimal designs and customized assistive strategies. The platform will simulate an elderly person walking with assistive robots in a virtual environment by translating aging population characteristics and real-world models of assistive robots into digital forms.
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Extending active life for older people with cognitive impairment through innovations in the visitor economy of the natural environment (ENLIVEN)
Helping older people with cognitive impairment to be more active, independent and socially connected, experiencing a good quality of life through nature-based outdoor activities.
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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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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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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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Lower limb loading during sports movements
Ageing influences older adults’ ability to perform dynamic sports movements and these changes can place unique demands on footwear. Different characteristics for footwear may be needed for safe sporting activity. This project targets the development of new footwear specifically designed for older adults participating in sport and exercise, helping them stay active for longer.
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Making cricket accessible for everyone, anytime and anywhere
Making cricket accessible for everyone, anytime and anywhere to support physical and mental health – specifically to one of the communities it needs the most – people from the South Asian ethnicity with a focus on women.
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Music in Mind Remote (Digital delivery of music activities to people living with dementia)
Music in Mind Remote (MIMR): Digital delivery of music activities to help people living with dementia express themselves and communicate with others, improving daily life and enabling new connections to be made.
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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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Rural Design: Low cost, energy efficient, modular terraced housing for older residents of rural areas
Building desirable low cost, energy efficient, modular terraced housing for older residents of rural areas, creating capacity for older people to move into more appropriate accomodation.