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MobileAge App goes online on Bremen Online
- Created: 20 February 2018
On Friday 9th of February 2018, our digital district guide developed in Bremen Osterholz was officially launched on the official city portal Bremen.de. As part of the Mobile Age project we worked together with a group of 11 older adults from the district Osterholz from May 2016 to February 2017 to develop a concept for the digital district guide and implement it as a prototype. The result is a map based district guide with information on 17 beautiful places and paths as well as more than 70 institutions from the fields of culture, sports, meeting and counselling. The result of our work has now been migrated to the official city portal of Bremen. You will find the district guide under the following link: www.bremen.de/osterholz/senioren. Such a sustainable adoption of project results is not a matter of course and we are pleased that the results of our work are still accessible and supported after the end of the project.
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New WHO handbook on age-friendly environments
- Created: 20 January 2018
Policies to create better age-friendly environments have become a forceful movement in Europe and globally in which a growing number of cities and communities, local authorities and regional governments participate. The World Health Organization (WHO) just published a handbook for local policy-makers and planners based on lessons learned from existing age-friendly initiatives in Europe and from the latest evidence from research. It offers a new focus on inter-connectedness and mutual synergies between the eight domains and how they can work together to address common goals such as increasing social inclusion, fostering physical activity or supporting people living with dementia.
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Mobile Age starts testing the district app for older adults in Bremen Hemelingen
- Created: 20 January 2018
On Thursday last week, we primarily tested the jointly developed application for district walks in the city district Bremen Hemelingen together with our participants. Since last summer we have conducted walks in the district and digitalised them in a map application together with a group of senior citizens from Hemelingen as well as local stakeholders.
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Mobile Age presented at the 51st ICA International Conference, 11th-14th September 2017, Tokyo Japan
- Created: 14 January 2018
The project was discussed among Breakout Group 4 during Sessions VI and VII on Interaction Day of the 51st ICA International Conference which took place in Tokyo, Japan September 11th-14th 2017. Gov2u partner member, Dora Spyropoulou attended the conference and discussed the abilities of MobileAge during discussions addressing the topic of misinformation and dealing with providing information to vulnerable groups including aging population.
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Mobile Age at the Digital Transformation of Public Administrations Event, 24 October 2017, Brussels
- Created: 14 January 2018
Our partners from Tingtun and Government To You represented the Mobile Age project in the “Digital Transformation of Public Administrations Event” that was organized by the Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (CONNECT) and the Research Executive Agency (REA).
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Co-creation activities in Thessaloniki, June-December 2017, Thessaloniki
- Created: 14 January 2018
Via three meetings with Open Care Centre members in Thessaloniki, our partners from the Region of Central Macedonia (RCM) presented the project, the steps followed so far and discussed about the problems and needs of elderly people of the region. Moreover, the participants evaluated the services and work on the pharmacists procedure.
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Co-creation workshops in UK
- Created: 14 January 2018
From June to December 2017 Lancaster University (ULANC) organised a number of exploration and co-creation workshops with elderly to explore avenues of work with SLH services targeted at their own residents, to discuss about the app, what information should be included in older adult user profile, as well as the risks and benefits using a user profile.
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Mobile Age UK partner, Lancaster Uni, develops new app against loneliness of elderly people
- Created: 14 January 2018
Loneliness and isolation affect thousands of elderly people across the Border area. Now a group of older people in Kendal have been helping researchers at the University of Lancaster pioneer an app that is aimed at getting them out and about.
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