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Welcome to INNOVAGE

It is my great pleasure to welcome you to the first newsletter of the INNOVAGE project, or to give it its full title, Social Innovations Promoting Active and Healthy Ageing.

Funded by the European Commission under Framework Programme 7’s Health call, INNOVAGE began in December 2012 and will run for 36 months. In particular the project aims to address the current major barriers to innovation and to the achievement of the extension of healthy life years across the EU.

The project will develop and test, as well as survey and catalogue, social innovation that will have a solid impact on improving the quality of life and well-being of older people. Its key outputs will be four new major social innovations in different EU countries and a new European platform to promote the sustainable implementation of social innovations to promote well-being in later life.

To accomplish this INNOVAGE is built on the closest possible partnership with end users and stakeholders, including older people themselves and aims to achieve impact in the public, private and third sectors. At its heart the project consortium involves nine partners from seven different countries, each bringing different disciplinary interests and expertise in ageing research.

This introductory newsletter contains an overview of the project and will introduce you to our activities. I hope you have an opportunity to engage with us during one of our Stakeholder Forums or on social media.

Alan WalkerINNOVAGE Coordinator

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Project objectivesThe project has four specific objectives:

• To develop, implement and evaluate four potentially cost-effective social innovations focused on: social innovation, well-being and quality of life, and Healthy Life Expectancy.

• To create a brand new social innovation web-based platform, consisting of model, state-of-the-art, innovations from anywhere in the world that have been evaluated to have real potential to contribute to extending Healthy Life Expectancy.

• To tackle head-on the critical barriers to the implementation of social innovations in this field by drawing on state-of-the-art research and experience in social innovation development and by adopting a novel approach based on the exploitation of recent technologies for addressing users’ needs in an optimal way.

• To emphasise knowledge exchanges to and implementation especially in the New Member states. The tools for implementation will recognise the very unequal experience of Healthy Life Expectancy across Europe and seek to prioritise the New Member States and especially those in Central and Eastern Europe.

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Overview of project activitiesINNOVAGE builds on the expert research team at the centre of the FUTURAGE project, which created A Road Map for European Ageing Research. The mission of INNOVAGE is to concentrate the highest possible quality of scientific expertise, together with stakeholders from all relevant fields (policy, practice, product development) and the active participation of older people, to produce and identify major innovative approaches to better quality of life and well-being as people age.

All partners share the following guiding principles:

• A shared commitment to science applied to the improvement of human well-being

• Ageing research requires a multi-disciplinary perspective

• Europe is not presently maximising its considerable resources and not currently improving well-being and quality of life as rapidly as possible

• A new vision of ageing is required which emphasises the positive potential of older people

• The great potential for social innovation in this field has not been sufficiently exploited

The main activities are:

• Four Social Innovations in the fields of housing (Sweden, Latvia, Italy and Germany), carers (Italy), obesity (UK), long-term care (Germany)

• 150 exemplars of social innovations designed to extend HLE and/or improve later life well- being

• A webportal ‘The European Social Innovations for Healthy Life Expectancy’ resource, supported by a touch-phone/tablet application

• A Stakeholder Panel

• Three meetings of the INNOVAGE European Forum on Social Innovations for Healthy and Active Life Expectancy

• Development of formal guidelines for the involvement of older people in the development of relevant Social Innovations

• European conference for Social Innovations and Active and Healthy Ageing

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Extending Healthy Life ExpectancyINNOVAGE takes as its starting point the goals set by Horizon 2020 concerning the demographic challenge facing Europe, the necessity of improving lifelong health and well-being for all and the promotion of social innovation, and also that of the European Innovation Partnership pilot initiative on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIPAHA) to raise the average healthy life expectancy in Europe by 2 years by 2020.INNOVAGE has been developed specifically to make a substantial contribution especially to this main goal of the EIPAHA.

The focus on extending life expectancy and reducing mortality was relevant while deaths from infectious diseases and maternal mortality were high. Most European countries now have substantially reduced premature mortality and mortality rates even those in late old age are falling. Emphasis has therefore moved to ensuring the quality of life at older ages and many national and European policy agendas now emphasise this. Nevertheless the gain in healthy years must outpace the increases in life expectancy to ensure a decrease in unhealthy years. This is not happening in a number of European countries.

The Healthy Life Years indicator shows that the health gaps between European countries (a difference of 14 years of healthy life at age 50 for men and women) exceed the gap in life expectancy (a difference of 9 years for men and 6 years for women at age 50) and that these gaps are driven by the low life expectancy and HLY in Central and Eastern European countries.

We need to find new ways of increasing the likelihood that these extra years of life are spent in good health rather than affected by life limiting illness or disability. Social innovation provides a way to meet this increasingly urgent need through the process of developing new ideas, services and products that are social both in their ends and means; they simultaneously meet social needs and create new social relationships and collaborations that enable active ageing and increase healthy life expectancy.

The project has dual aims: to develop a new understanding of active ageing in terms of social innovation and healthy life expectancy, and; to deliver step-changes in understanding of and access to information about social innovations which extend healthy life expectancy and improve well-being. This work is at the core of the INNOVAGE project and will draw on all the other INNOVAGE activities to ultimately develop a new formulation of active ageing.

The two key tasks are:

• To monitor the development of the four major new social innovations undertaken during the project for evidence of successful implementation and bring them together in the new system for comparison of the impact of social innovations on healthy life expectancy.

• To survey and select prime examples of social innovations in health and well-being of older people and create a new European taxonomy of social innovations in this field.

These four social innovations will have direct application to their participants as well as providing an evidence base for those interested in developing interventions in their own location or thematic area. The results from these four innovations will also be part of a global survey of social innovations to identify exemplars of the most effective interventions which have a positive impact on active and healthy ageing; each intervention will be assessed against a balanced scorecard and reviewed by experts in a Stakeholder Panel. The survey results will be used to create a webportal which will provide vital information on each exemplar displayed in a common format. This will be an innovative platform, also available in a mobile/app format, for: sharing learning and networking between service provided, social entrepreneurs, business, policy makers, civil society; capacity building in social innovations by spreading information about successful innovations, and; as a repository of best practice.

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About active ageingThough a widely supported concept, few countries have adopted a comprehensive model of active ageing. Many national and European policies focus narrowly on the labour market and working longer, which tends to exclude any older people not engaged in economic activity. Focusing on only the more active older people neglects frail older people and especially those in long-term care institutions. The emphasis on physical activity has also led to inattention to the importance of maintaining mental capacity and mental well-being.

There is also a need for a new vision of ageing. The present perspective is a relic of eras when retirement took place for a majority at state pension ages and postretirement years were relatively short. Changes in the labour market and social behaviour coupled with a remarkable extension in longevity, combined in some countries with later onset of disease and disability, have transformed the experience of later life. The boundaries of frailty are being pushed back and, for a growing number of older Europeans, 70 is the new 50.

INNOVAGE will develop a new formulation of active ageing. Based on the work conducted throughout the project, the aim is to produce an inspiring and usable tool to encourage actions by actors at all levels. The focus on the operationalisation of active ageing will directly address the major barriers to social innovation and the achievement of healthy life years across the European Union.

The active and healthy ageing modelA comprehensive strategy to maximise participation and well-being as people age. It should operate simultaneously at the individual (lifestyle), organisational (age management) and societal (policy) levels and at all stages of the life course.

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About social innovation

Social innovation is not a new concept but recently it has been widely encouraged as a means to improve, expand and diversify innovation for the benefit of society. It is not an easy concept to define, but is broadly understood to mean new ideas meeting social needs and creating new relationships or collaboration.

For social innovation to be effective it needs to be tied more directly to the targeted populations and individuals – in this case the ageing population. However there is an absence of successful and sustainable social innovations in the field of well-being in later life, in contrast to civic entrepreneurialism or the public sector. The lack of clear definition and wide understanding of social innovation means many social innovators may not identify themselves so; many innovations remain small, immature andeffectively hidden from view.

For example there is great potential for the use of ICT in this field, in support services for informal carers, smart home technology, the use of mobile phones for preventative health care and management of chronic conditions, but none of this is yet implemented on a large scale. In addition, there are few recognised instruments for ensuring the success of social innovations; outcomes are many and varied, making comparisons difficult.

INNOVAGE will develop an evaluation process to assess the impact of social innovations on well-being in old age. Building on methods being developed as part of the Joint Action Healthy Life Years, INNOVAGE will develop a database of exemplars of social innovation, those with a proven track record or really obvious potential.

What are social innovations?Social Innovations are ideas, products, services or models that are new, or applied in new contexts, and which are designed to improve the well-being and quality of life of people as they age.

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Our social innovationsAs part of our project activities INNOVAGE partners are developing four of their own social innovations, which are described over the next few pages. They cover a diverse set of activities and geographies while remaining focused on the core INNOVAGE aims of better quality of life and well-being for the ageing population.

User Driven Housing for Older People Activity leader: Lund University, Sweden

In the near future it is expected that nearly a quarter of the population will be older than 65 years, and at present housing provision in Europe is insufficient to meet the needs and expectations of senior citizens. For example, many people ageing with disabilities live in dwellings with stairs at the entrance, without elevators, and also with many environmental barriers in the immediate outdoor surroundings. This activity of the INNOVAGE project aims to support older people to compare and evaluate housing options with regard to accessibility issues.

The outcome will be a new computer-based tool that will raise the awareness for appropriate housing in old age, and empower senior citizens to become more actively involved in decision-making in the context of housing provision. Making use of a scientifically recognized methodology for accessibility assessments, the new tool will target housing environments and their immediate surroundings based on modern, user-friendly information and communication technology. During development and testing of the new computer-based tool, older people in several European countries will be closely engaged as intended end users, but also public stakeholders involved in housing construction and housing provision will take an active part in the process. Ultimately, the work-package aims to have an impact on housing policies and housing provision practices across Europe.

Led by Lund University in Sweden, with research expertise from German, Italian and Latvian partners, this WP will start by generating knowledge on how senior citizens in different European countries express their needs and expectations regarding housing options. Based on existing state-of-the-art methodology for housing accessibility assessments (already available in eight European languages), with this WP we will develop and pilot a social innovation to promote well-being and Quality of Life in old age with the potential to scale up across Europe.

We will use the existing Housing Enabler methodology as the platform for the development of a novel ICT-based interactive and user-driven service. This methodology is currently the most robust scientific tool for accessibility assessment.

Strategic objectives • To operationalise the notion of person-environment fit

and its scientifically proven significance for well-being and quality of life along the life course.

• To actively involve senior citizens in housing provision, ultimately changing such practices across Europe.

• To empower senior citizens to take on a more active role in housing provision and turn them into more critical consumers, ultimately influencing housing policies and housing provision practices across Europe. This is a prime example of our shared commitment to apply high quality science in the service of human welfare and well-being.

Operational objectives • To develop, demonstrate and evaluate a prototype of a

novel computerised tool, based on the Housing Enabler methodology, where older people themselves can describe their functional profiles, needs and expectations regarding housing options.

• To engage closely with older people, as end users, in the evaluation of the prototype tool.

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ICT-based social support for carers of older people Activity leaders: INRCA, Italy and EUROCARERS, Luxembourg

Informal carers provide unpaid care, as well as practical and psychological support to dependent family members or friends. A carers’ life is influenced gradually in different ways experiencing physical, psychological and financial burden. In recent years, their role has been recognised worldwide, but still there are countries where legislation does not support carers. Moreover, in many EU member states very few contents and services for informal carers are currently available on-line: it is clear that the potential of the web is not yet exploited in all countries.

Indeed, a specific social innovation within the INNOVAGE project aims at developing a multilingual web platform addressing the most relevant informal carers’ needs, to be implemented in all 27 EU member states with both common and national-specific services. The platform includes not only contents related to caregiving activities and coping strategies, but also interactive tools allowing informal carers and other target groups (i.e. care professionals and employers of working carers) to communicate, share their experiences and support each other.

INRCA, the Italian National Institute of Health and Science on Aging, and Eurocarers, a non-profit organisation with an EU scope of supporting carers, are the main partners for the development, implementation and dissemination of the web platform.

The dissemination plan of the web platform initiates early in the lifetime of the project with the motivation of Eurocarers’ member organisations network. Users’ feedback is requested in all stages of development and design, investigating carers’ needs, user-friendliness, graphic design, contents development, sustainability and other dimensions. As part of the dissemination activities, the web platform will be disseminated in all EU member states. Presentation and training of the web platform to carers, care professionals and employers is part of main dissemination plan. Scheduled activities include EU and national events with representatives of Eurocarers’ member organisations, users and relevant stakeholders.

The overall goal of this social innovation is to develop a web platform for family carers of dependent older people, which will be implemented for all 27 EU member states with both common contents and national-specific ones, as well as interactive tools managed at national level. The following user needs will be addressed through the platform: information; social inclusion; reconciliation of unpaid care and paid work; and training on care provision. Furthermore, additional national-specific contents addressing issues dealing with the role of employers of working carers (reconciliation issue), as well as the role of care professionals (integration between formal and informal care), will be developed and implemented in certain EU countries.

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The main output should be the on-line publication of the web platform into the Eurocarers website after an adequate development, refinement and evaluation process that will guarantee its quality of contents and usability, according to an iterative involvement of users and experts in the field in all phases.

Activities are divided in three main tasks: • Task 1 – Definition of Protocol of Action (PACT):

this preliminary activity concerns the finalisation of a common protocol between partners (INRCA and Eurocarers) that clarifies in detail all aspects of project activities, including roles, responsibilities and schedule;

• Task 2 – Development and pilots: this activity concerns the development of the web platform and the field work for testing it with users in three EU countries (i.e. Italy, Germany and Sweden). After a preliminary review of good practices (i.e. successful web-based support services for carers), two main phases are planned:

o design and development: the web platform will be designed and developed according to accessibility and usability criteria, taking into account needs of target groups. A continuous involvement of users (e.g. user tests, rapid prototyping) is guaranteed. Contents will be developed according to the most relevant and significant needs emerged from consultation process with users and stakeholders;

o pilot tests: the prototype of the platform will be tested in three sites with samples of users. All the pilots will be evaluated through a one group pre-test/post-test design assessing different outcomes, like impact on users’ self-efficacy, social isolation and acceptance of the web tools;

• Task 3 – Implementation: this activity concerns the final on-line publication of the web platform, becoming publicly accessible to users. After eventual revisions according to the results of the evaluation, there will be a translation of common contents for informal carers (piloted in the previous task) and a development of national contents for informal carers (in all countries), employers and care professionals (in some countries).

An additional task will deal with the dissemination and training among users and stakeholders, explaining how to use the platform and carrying out an awareness campaign. The main outcome of the WP6-task 3 should be the wide dissemination and training of the web platform among informal carers, employers and care professionals across Europe through a detailed user involvement process.

The following activities will also be carried out during the last six months of the project:

• Presentation and training for informal carers: this activity concerns the dissemination of the web platform among informal carers of all 27 EU member states and their training on how to better use the platform. This activity will include: (a) one EU-event with 27 representatives of Eurocarers member organisations from each member state;(b) 27 national events, each with 15 (regional or organisational) representatives. Other (c) local events are possible in each country (ideally 15 ones per country, each with 20 local carers), but depending on contextual availability

• Presentation and training for employers: this activity concerns the dissemination of the web platform among employers of 10 EU member states and their training on how to better use the platform. This activity will include: (a) one EU event with representatives of national stakeholders from 10 member states (b) 10 national events, each involving 10 representatives of employer organisations per country;

• Presentation and training for care professionals: this activity concerns the dissemination of the web platform among care professionals of 10 EU member states and their training on how to better use the platform. This activity will include: (a) one EU event with representatives of national stakeholders from 10 member states; (b) 10 national events, each involving 10 representatives of care professional organisations per country.

The implementation of (top down) dissemination in three levels: a) EU level, b) national level and c) local level provides large-scale dissemination covering all target populations.

Additionally, the main aim of our EU events is to train representatives of Eurocarers organisations on how to use the web platform, how to disseminate it to its EU Member State, by providing information on the way that national events will be organised. The main aims of national events of dissemination plan are to train representatives, stakeholders and users in the use of the web platform, to raise awareness on caring issues of older people and to provide information on the organisation of local events. Finally, main aims of local events are to organise workshops with main users: carers, employers and care professionals, to provide training in the use of the web platform and receive feedback from main users.

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Improving obesity related outcomes in old ageActivity leaders: University of Sheffield, UK and Sheffield Hallam University, UK

A team of researchers from the School of Health and Related Research at the University of Sheffield, the User Centred Healthcare Design Lab4Living at Sheffield Hallam University and Newcastle University are collaborating on this multi-national, multi-disciplinary three year programme of work dedicated to developing, evaluating and implementing novel social innovations that will impact on improving the quality of life and well-being of older people. The researchers are all participants in the UK National Institute for Health Research Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care for South Yorkshire.

The project which is based in South Yorkshire in England is about ‘Improving Obesity Related Outcomes in Old Age’. Our ambition is to reduce the proportion of the European population who reach old age with problematic obesity, to minimise its negative health impacts and maximise functional health in old age. Using a range of qualitative and quantitative research methods and a programme of user-centred healthcare design activities involving participants in an existing cohort of research participants in South Yorkshire, we will develop an intervention that promotes playful inter-generational interactions around healthy and active ageing, exploring the potential of using digital, sensor and social networking technologies.

Through utilising social networks and new technologies to facilitate these interactions we aim to reduce the prevalence of obesity in youth and middle age so that a smaller proportion of people reach old age with problematic obesity, to minimise health impact and maximise functional health in old age.

This strand of work will develop a novel social intervention that will help reduce the proportion of the European population who reach old age with problematic obesity, to minimise negative health impacts and maximise functional health in old age. To achieve this, we have identified the following strategic and operational objectives:

Strategic objectives • To develop a comprehensive and current, qualitative and

quantitative understanding of obesity and its determinants

• To develop a novel, acceptable and effective social intervention with the potential to prevent and/or reduce obesity using user-centred healthcare design and evaluation activities

• To develop an implementation strategy to facilitate the use and on-going evaluation of the new intervention in different national and social environments

Operational objectives • To interrogate the relevant literature about obesity and

its determinants

• To use an existing cohort to examine the determinants of obesity across the life course

• To adopt a user centred design approach with cohort participants to develop a new social innovation

• To perform a pluralistic evaluation of the resulting social innovation with user and key stakeholders

• To develop an implementation strategy using a Knowledge to Action approach

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Long-term care in motionActivity leaders: Heidelberg University, Germany

This project sets out to investigate social innovations for the enhancement of quality of life and well-being—especially the healthy life expectancy—for older people. The project acts on the assumption that despite strong evidence for activity promotion in elderly people in institutional settings, increased and diversified activity is currently only implemented at a rudimentary level. Therefore, the primary objective of this sub-project is to increase and systematically promote the implementation and understanding regarding various aspects of activity patterns, physical fitness, and social participation of nursing home residents; staff members and environmental setting will also be addressed. Instead of a rigorous design, however—such as a randomized, control-trial intervention study—we will pursue an innovative, partially controlled pilot project accounting for content and methodology.

Specific aims of the project are: • Systematic review of the current state of research

about mobility and activity promotion in long-term care settings

A systematic review of the existing research will be conducted preparing the psychosocial and physical interventions. Based on this review, the project intervention actions will be planned and pre-tested in the institutional context.

• Monitoring of nursing home residents’ activity In order to objectively assess their daily activity, nursing

home residents will be monitored with unobtrusive, highly sensitive accelerometer-based activity sensors; these will be worn at the hip for approximately three consecutive days. We will use cutting-edge technological solutions in the field of mobility monitoring, pursuing four endpoints: (1) To demonstrate the exhaustive feasibility and usability of this methodologically sophisticated assessment for the general population of nursing home residents; (2) To collect data allowing a better understanding of mobility patterns of nursing home residents in general; (3) To carry out a pre-, post-, and a 6-month follow-up measurement based on this methodology, in the context of the predicted mobility and activity promotion; (4) To show that these kinds of technologies may provide practical knowledge for professionals in institutional settings about nursing home residents’ mobility patterns, demonstrating that they can be helpful to implement and supervise mobility-promoting measures in institutional settings.

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• Physical activity intervention The standardized group trainings which were developed

and evaluated by the work group of Prof. Klaus Hauer in previous research will mainly comprise resistance training and functional exercises tailored to the needs of older adults with and without cognitive impairment. The exercise program will focus on the improvement of key motor skills (such as gait, posture, sit-to-stand ability) essential for mobility, autonomy, and movement security. These training components will be complemented by specific cognitive tasks (i.e., dual task).

• Psychosocial intervention Besides activity-based parameters, health-related and

psychological aspects will enrich the training. In addition to the physical exercise program, a psychosocial intervention is intended to create incentives and activity occasions, respectively (e.g., finding an activity partner; comprehension of elements concerning one’s own aging process, reduction of age stereotypes, or improvements of self-efficacy). This component will be structured in a way that will be suited for healthy and cognitively impaired seniors (e.g., persons with dementia) alike. Furthermore, staff members as well as family members, will be included.

• Serious games: virtual gaming Unfortunately, conventional exercise programs seldom

motivate persons to achieve higher rates of physical activity. This demographic of person in particular can profit from virtual activity programs that integrate movement tasks into a game setting and thus provide opportunity to address other motives of movement (acting jointly in a play-likeway). The so called “serious games” can be understood as an advancement allowing training of the movements required for a target-oriented training (e.g., walking or keeping posture while solving memory tasks), while keeping a gaming component. In the course of a pilot study, the “serious games” approach will be investigated regarding its ability to promote activity in institutional settings in order to integrate this concept into the physical activity intervention.

Assessment of Effectiveness of Interventions The central aim of the study is to enhance physical activity of nursing home residents in the short-term as well as long-term through the implementation of physical and psychosocial interventions; the study should contribute to the healthy life expectancy and independence of nursing home residents. In order to assess whether the residents’ activity was increased immediately after the interventions, their pre- and post-intervention activity levels will be compared using mobility-monitoring, questionnaires, and proxy ratings. For the assessment of long-term effects, the residents’ activity will be reassessed after 6 months and compared to the activity levels at baseline and immediately after the intervention phase. In addition, the results will be compared to a control nursing home of equitable nature, in which no such intervention has been accomplished yet.

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Our engagement with stakeholdersINNOVAGE has a commitment to achieving close engagement and co-production with stakeholders. This in not straightforward and in practice there are very few examples of successful stakeholder integration. The INNOVAGE consortium happily can draw on the experiences of the FUTURAGE project – to which most INNOVAGE partners contributed. FUTURAGE which developed a Road Map for Ageing Research for Europe using a structured process of stakeholder engagement and provides a blueprint for guarantee stakeholder co-production. Our commitment to engaging with audiences outside the research process includes:

• All project activities have stakeholders embedded in their operations.

• Stakeholders will determine the viability of the social innovations reviewed and identified as exemplars for inclusion in the INNOVAGE web platform and ensuring that they dominate the selection process

• Establishing a strategic Stakeholder Forum – the European Forum on Social Innovations for Healthy and Active Life Expectancy – to cross-examine the work of the project, gather information on successful social innovations and discuss the methods necessary to ensure maximum diffusion and take up. The Forum will also facilitate the knowledge transfer from INNOVAGE to all relevant stakeholders

• Creating strategic partnerships with key stakeholder groups, including partners Age Platform Europe, Eurocarers and collaborators Young Foundation.

• Placing a special emphasis on the participation of older people in all aspects of this project because many failed attempts at social innovation in this field have neglected this fundamental necessity.

• Organising INNOVAGE around an iterative process that engages stakeholders at every phase

INNOVAGE specifically reflects the broad spectrum of older people’s needs through:

• Designing the project’s activities to impact at different stages of the life course and to include a heterogeneous cross-section, reflecting age, gender, race location, socio-economic situation.

• Ensuring that, unlike many other projects developing social innovations, this one does not neglect the very frailest older people in institutions, because HLE gains can be made in this group as well as younger ones and their well-being should not be neglected

• Guaranteeing that all project activities will pay particular attention to the diversity of Europe’s older population

• Targeting the gap in Healthy Life Expectancy between Member States and putting a special emphasis on raising the performance of the Central and Eastern European Countries and, therefore, improving the well-being of their older citizens

• Actively encouraging our INNOVAGE partner, Age Platform Europe, to spot any risks that specific groups of older people might be excluded.

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ConsortiumCoordinator University of Sheffield, UK

www.sheffield.ac.uk

EU Age Platform Europe

www.age-platform.eu/en

Germany Heidelberg University

www.uni-heidelberg.de/index_e.html

Italy National Institute on Health and Science of Aging

(INRCA) www.inrca.it/inrca/home.asp

Latvia Latvian Council of Science

www.lzp.gov.lv/index.php?mylang=english

Luxembourg Eurocarers

www.eurocarers.org

Sweden Lund University

www.lunduniversity.lu.se

UK Newcastle University

www.ncl.ac.uk

Sheffield Hallam University www.shu.ac.uk

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The University of Sheffield INNOVAGE Coordination TeamAlan Walker – Project DirectorJuliet Craig – Senior Research Manager Dave Neary – Research AssociatePeter Adcock – Financial Officer

The University of SheffieldDepartment of Sociological StudiesNorthumberland RoadSheffield, S10 2TU, UK

T: +44 (0)114 222 6417F: +44 (0)114 276 8125E: innovage@sheffield.ac.ukwww.innovage.group.shef.ac.uk

Funded by the European Commission’s Seventh Framework ProgrammeFP7-HEALTH-2012-INNOVATION-1/No 306058

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