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Shaping the future of innovation
Engagement with the public and healthcare professionals
Age Innovation Hub will crowdsource ideas and needs for technologies to enable healthy ageing throughout the life-course. The needs and ideas identified will directly inform UCL research into healthy ageing, ensuring that we’re focused on delivery usable solutions to real problems.
We will facilitate discussions through a digital platform, asking the public:
- What needs and challenges they have around healthy ageing?
- What ideas they have for technologies that could help this?
Who is the campaign open to?
Our campaign will be open to everyone (we are all ageing!) but we will be doing particular outreach to these key audiences:
- Older patients, elderly community members, family members, neighbours, unpaid carers
- Frontline healthcare professionals e.g. nurses, occupational therapists, professional carers, physiotherapists, GPs
Six challenge areas within the Age Innovation Hub will be open for commenting, posting and voting on ideas:
- Staying independent at home for longer
- Staying active
- Supporting people with health concerns common with age
- Creating healthy environments
- Building social communities
- The bigger picture
The site has additional benefits as a tool for learning and communications. Other areas of the platform include a dive into existing research with lay-friendly case-studies, blogs and links to further learning.
How will the ideas be used?
The needs identified in each challenge area and the feasibility of potential ideas will be assessed by an evaluation panel in January, and the findings will be produced in an open report which can feed into future research. We will then be supporting related ideas through research, development and funding.
Researchers can also use the platform as a forum to outreach with the public about their own existing research, make connections and receive feedback on research direction.