Innovation Forum: Place-based health and wellness

This year we’re inviting you to roll-up your sleeves and help us define a place-based approach to healthy ageing.

Last year our first ever Healthy Ageing & Care Innovation Forum brought together pioneers from industry, academia, care, and community sectors to re-examine how we understand healthy ageing, identity and social connection. This year, we’re raising the ambition.

We’re inviting leading thinkers, creators, and partners from across the health tech, built environment, and innovation ecosystems to help shape the future of one of the most exciting living labs for healthy ageing in the UK, situated within The Chocolate Quarter; already a flagship model of intergenerational, open retirement living.

Our goal is to explore how we can combine people, place, nature, technology, and data to prototype new models of healthy ageing and care innovation that can scale regionally, nationally and globally.

Together, we’ll investigate:

• How people of all ages move through and use these spaces; and how design, technology and community activation can promote healthier choices and more connected lives, whilst respecting people’s individual choices.
• The role of emerging technologies, smart environments, and data-driven insights in improving well-being, resilience and independence.
• How we create environments that support people living with dementia, frailty or long-term conditions, while celebrating movement, purpose and contribution.
• What Somerdale Pavilion, The Chocolate Quarter and St Monica Trust itself could become over the next 5, 10, 15 years; and what interventions, partnerships and prototypes we should initiate now.

This is an opportunity to help shape a real world test bed for healthy ageing and care innovation, rooted in the community but connected to cutting edge research, innovation and industry.

Take a look at what we got up to at our Innovation Forum last March.