Learning modules Hands-on SHAFE HEALTHY
Category: User Experience
To learn a healthy lifestyle, dealing with therapies, dementia, chronic diseases or impairments
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Category: User Experience
To learn to use wearable devices and smartphones, how to support indipendent living
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This is a program that aims to improve the quality of life for older adults in nursing homes and assisted living facilities, by providing social activities, entertainment, and companionship
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Online brain game for the training of cognitive function: speed, memory, attention, felxiblity, problem solving, word and math. The exercises are developed by researchers in the field and addapted into easy-to-learn brain games. The Luminosity games are used in 20 peer-reviewed publications in academic journals.
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Aging is continuously depicted as a force majeure event despite clear and robust premonitions of its coming. However, such depiction serves to justify the unpreparedness and inadequacy of policies manifesting in loneliness and isolation, unsatisfied demands in health and social care, lack of suitably inclusive residential and social facilities, and inequitable access to support and services. Recent years have seen an increase in social innovation that involves alternative transaction models, such as time-banks and circular economies. These initiatives represent collective responses to changes and challenges such as aging by identifying and innovatively capturing and exchanging locally- and freely- available assets with the intent to fulfill economic needs (more affordable goods and services), social ambitions (skills development and exchange, repurposing space, social inclusion, and cohesion) environmental aspirations (up-cycle) and psychological needs (sense of purpose, identity, belonging, recognition). Whilst it is often assumed that ad hoc measures are appropriate to resolve the challenges posed by an aging demographic, the learnt assumption that underpins this work is that aging is a systemic issue and ought to be understood, and resolved, in its context, not by producing niche- relevant policy and interventions, but considering the impacts it has on the whole society. Henceforth it is proposed that truly transformative social innovation for the aging population must consider and resolve the challenges of communities as these are where older adults can stay relevant socially and, in the presented approach, also economically. Through the review of four international case studies, a framework with four cornerstones has emerged. This includes the changing role of local and central governments, the models of value creation, co-creation mechanisms, and finally, technology, especially digital social currency. The concurrent presence of the four factors in the framework is not always a requirement for social innovation to emerge and flourish. However, the presented analysis suggests that all four themes have an impact even when not being direct agents of social innovation. The authors conclude by making a case for developing Living Labs for Aging-in-Place, to experiment and study proposed solutions for systemic challenges facing the aging population, grounded in community-led schemes.
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This project looks at such convergences and divergences within a particularly instrumental environment - the barriers and opportunities that present to built environment practitioners when making healthy places.
Read MoreManufacturers and Developers Guidelines
Category: User Experience
Guidelines for manufacturers and developers of Active and Healthy Ageing solutions aiming for a Personal User Experience (PUX, Action Group C2): Recommendations and Lessons Learned V1
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The mHealthINX solution will provide an entirely new user experience in coping with the sensitive but very important and urgent topic of Mental Health in occupational settings. The solution targets the support of older employees (50 ) and the prevention of stress-related diseases such as depression, anxiety, and cardiovascular diseases.
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Applications that use GIS data to help people plan their travel routes or to optimize transportation networks in a more sustainable way.
Read MoreMobility assessment with 3d depth data
Category: Other
Project and publication. assessing mobility of older persons using real time data and to compare these data with the mobility assessment of physiotherapists. 3d mobility trackers can be used to collect long-term mobility data. since changes in mobility might indicate functional decline, long-term trackiing allows to react to changes in mobility. such a technology may have essential medical and social value.
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