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Finerday.com
FinerDay is a closed social network, which provides a safe space for older people or those with special needs to share photos, comments and video messages in a secure environment. The platform aims...
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Ladder to the Moon
Ladder to the Moon transforms care homes into a Hollywood film studio for the day, allowing older people and their carers to discuss issues and challenges in a completely different way. The Ladder to...
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Outminder
Outminder is designed to support people with long term care needs through reminders and alarms set on their smartphone or tablet. The app allows users with memory problems (such as those recovering...
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Hogewey Dementia Village, Netherlands
Hogewey is a gated community in the Netherlands, designed specifically for people with dementia. About 150 people with Alzheimer’s or similar live in 23 themed homes where the emphasis is on having as...
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50+ journey, Cornwall
50+ journey is a toolkit for older people in Cornwall who want to learn new skills and get back into work. By 2017, over 50s will be 34% of the labour force in Cornwall. The programme is run by...
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Age Labs
Age Labs research the particular design needs of older people, as well as developing aids so that young researchers can feel what it’s like. We’ve bundled together some brilliant examples in one post...
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Robot seal – ‘Paro’
Researchers have found that robot pets can help people feel better, especially those with late stage dementia. The Paro therapeutic robot has been approved by the FDA as a medical device, and over 30...
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Primary Care Navigator
‘Navigators’, based at GP practices, proactively find and co-ordinate health, social care and volunteer services to people with long term conditions, reducing A&E visits, out of hours calls to GPs,...
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Daily Living Dementia Products
Examples of consumer products designed to help people with dementia. People with dementia can often get confused about time, and get up very early, or wander in the night. They can have problems...
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Portrait from SiDE
Portrait focuses on care givers. It can be difficult for care staff, giving their limited time and training, to initiate conversations with residents with communication problems like late stage...
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Staying Steady
Staying Steady is a community-based exercise and education programme implemented city-wide in Newcastle-upon-Tyne as part of a strategy to prevent older people falling and preventing fractures. Using...
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Camden 50+
Camden Council have developed a new route to commission services for older people. They are searching for new projects that can provide support and services for over 50s in Camden. Projects must be...
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Stay Well@Home
Stay Well@Home brings volunteers, GPs, and social care providers together to support older people to stay well and remain living at home. Many people who have recently left hospital are at immediate...
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sharedwalk
sharedwalk allows users to use mobile phone video to share everyday experiences with friends and loved ones now at a distance. The app allows someone with a smartphone to capture and send (narrated)...
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Spring Online
Spring Online is Digital Unite’s national digital literacy campaign for older people. The award winning campaign is held every April – in 2013, 22-26th April. Local people and organisations as...
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Walking stick from Fujitsu
Fujitsu is currently prototyping a ‘smart walking stick’ with built-in GPS and sat-nav. The Next Generation Cane is designed to help older people find their way, as well as monitor things such as...
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Go ON UK
Go ON UK is a national campaign created to ensure that every person and every organisation – from small business to large corporations and charities – is able to enjoy the social, economic and cultural...
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BMW “Heute für Morgen”– Today for Tomorrow
By 2017, BMW’s workforce will be on average eight years older. To prepare for this, one line at BMW’s power train plant in Dingolfing, Lower Bavaria was staffed with older workers, with an average age...
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Broomhouse Healthy Deliveries
Broomhouse Health Strategy Group are a food co-op in Edinburgh delivering low-cost food to older people. Deliveries are made by volunteers who want to stay fit and walk for health. They...
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A Good Death
A Good Death is a support service for people who are coming to the end of their lives or have been diagnosed with a terminal illness, to make the practical arrangements and choices necessary to enable...
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