Analysis Responses

Age Friendly Homes

Category: User Experience

Website provides resources, guidance and links to other sources of information to support people to live well as they age. It presents a set of informations on new and existing homes, grants and funding, healthcare, design information, technology, public realm, regulations, policy and research.

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Age Friendly Informative Project Support

Category: User Experience

Age Friendly Informative Project Support

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Age-Friendly Transportation

Category: User Experience

Age Friendly Ireland is the organisation responsible for the national Age Friendly Programme, affiliated to the World Health Organization's [WHO] Global Network of Age Friendly Cities and Communities. The programme involves a multiagency, multi-sectoral approach to age-related planning and service provision. Age Friendly Ireland supports cities and counties to be more inclusive of older people by addressing their expressed concerns and interests under the eight pillars of the World Health Organization's global programme.

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Agile Ageing Alliance

Category: User Experience

The Agile Ageing Alliance (AAA) aims to demonstrate that through innovations in technology, business and service models, our homes and Neighbourhoods of the Future can be reimagined to boost health and wellbeing, and promote independent living, leading to a reduction in the financial burden on Citizens and State.

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CARESSES: Culture Aware Robots and Environmental Sensor Systems for Elderly Support

Category: Projects

International project whose goal is to design the first care robots that adapt the way they behave and speak to the culture of the person they assist. By designing robots that are more sensitive to the user's needs, the innovative solution will foster older adults' independence and autonomy, with a greater impact on quality of life.

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Co-designing an Embodied e-Coach With Older Adults: The Tangible Coach Journey

Category: User Experience

Guidelines for the design of an embodied virtual coach for seniors from the NESTORE H2020 project

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Co-desing/Co-creation with older adults and informal carers

Category: User Experience

Interviews and co-creation workshops were conducted with older persons ( 65 years) and their carers in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, and the United Kingdom.

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Connecting at Local Level: Exploring Opportunities for Future Design of Technology to Support Social Connections in Age-Friendly Communities

Category: User Experience

The paper discusses the challenges faced by healthcare and welfare systems due to the increasing number of older adults. It aims to explore how knowledge can contribute to the development of age-friendly cities and communities.

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Educational game on Handling lower back pain

Category: User Experience

An innovative game was designed to work around the standard ineffectiveness of traditional learning approaches for mature workers. The required data was modelled and designed from the ground-up around the requirements and needs indicated by mature workers with low back pain and experts in the field.

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Effects of Virtual Reality Guided Meditation in Older Adults: The Protocol of a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial

Category: User Experience

Virtual Reality (VR) based meditation has been shown to help increase relaxation and decrease anxiety and depression in younger adults. However, this has not been studied in Randomized Controlled Trials (RCT) in the older adult populatio

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