Analysis Responses

Strong and steady are training groups adapted for seniors who experience unsteadiness

Category: User Experience

Strong and steady are training groups adapted for seniors who experience unsteadiness with incipient functional impairment who need balance and strength training. The new national recommendations for physical activity specify that elderly people with impaired balance, in addition to being physically active for 30 minutes at least 5 days a week, should do balance exercises and strength training to improve strength and balance and thus reduce the risk of falling. 60 municipalities in Norway are using this programme.

Transforming the future of ageing

Category: Other

SAPEA's evidence review report shows that the ageing process needs to be transformed. Europe must tackle the challenges presented by ageing in every generation. When it comes to predicting how people age, evidence indicates that genetic factors are relatively minor compared to lifestyle behaviours such as a healthy diet and physical activity. Policies to promote these behaviours from early childhood, and even in unborn children, contribute directly to a healthy ageing process across people's whole lives. Ageing in the future will take place in a very different context from the past and will be profoundly affected by phenomena such as climate change, air pollution and antibiotic resistance, as well as ongoing social changes. Policies will only be successful if they accommodate these changes. Technology is already changing the experience of ageing, including wearable and assistive devices and the advent of AI. But barriers of acceptance and practicality must be overcome.

WorkingAge

Category: Projects

WorkingAge (Smart Working environments for all Ages) will use innovative HCI methods (augmented reality, virtual reality, gesture/voice recognition and eye tracking) to measure the user emotional/cognitive/health state and create communication paths. At the same time with the use of IoT sensors will be able to detect environmental conditions. The purpose is to promote healthy habits of users in their working environment and daily living activities in order to improve their working and living conditions. By studying the profile of the >50 (Year old) workers and the working place requirements in three different working environments (Office, Driving and Manufacturing), both profiles (user and environment) will be considered. Information obtained will be used for the creation of interventions that will lead to healthy aging inside and outside the working environment.