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TUN:"Lancaster University Develops App To Tackle Loneliness"
- Created: 11 March 2018
Jackson Schroeder reports in The University Network that a team of researchers from Lancaster University in the UK has developed an app — the "Social Connectedness App" — that can help cure loneliness in older adults. The research to create the "Social Connectedness App" is part of the "Mobile Age" project, and was funded by Horizon 2020 EU. This project has universities, local authorities and business professionals from all across Europe working to create mobile open-data services to limit the growing loneliness epidemic in specifically South Lakeland in the UK, Bremen in Germany, Zaragoza in Spain, and Thessaloniki, Greece.
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Digital district guide - with everything that older people need!
- Created: 11 March 2018
Many digital city guides and maps are available nowadays. But very rarely do they have the information that older people are looking for: Where can I go for a nice walk? Where are benches, where are toilets?
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Prototype for Osterholz finalised. Senior citizens and researchers develop digital neighbourhood guide
- Created: 11 March 2018
For Bremen-Osterholz there is now a digital city district guide, which is tailored to the interests and needs of older people. Senior citizens have participated in the development.
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Researchers and senior citizens jointly develop digital district guide
- Created: 11 March 2018
Where to go for a nice walk, where to find benches, where are places for meetings or counselling? Together with older people, researchers at the University of Bremen have developed a digital city district guide for Osterholz.
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Osterholzer Seniors develop digital city quarter guide
- Created: 11 March 2018
Developing a website over 70 years old? No problem. Eleven senior citizens from Bremen have published a digital city guide together with researchers.
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"Mobile Age" District guide for older adults in Osterholz is now online
- Created: 11 March 2018
Mobile Age gets more visibility in Bremen as a news article was published on February 21st, 2018 in the "Weserreport Ost" newspaper. It mentions that together with older adults in the district an online guide has been developed. The project is financed by the EU and the aim is to show how older adults can participate in development processes.
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Policy brief on loneliness and social isolation in rural districts presented by Lancaster University
- Created: 26 February 2018
Niall Hayes, Professor in Lancaster University and Mobile Age Project Coordinator, distributed the policy brief on loneliness and social isolation in rural districts at a workshop hosted by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Cabinet Office in London on 7th February 2018.
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Digital district guide for Bremen Osterholz available online!
- Created: 26 February 2018
From May 2016 to February 2017 Mobile Age partner from Bremen Germany, ifib, worked together with a group of 11 older adults from the district Osterholz to develop a concept for the digital district guide and implement it as a prototype.
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