Healthy Longevity: Promise – Challenge – Innovation
Healthy longevity means “a person should be able to do the things he or she values for as long as possible.” As an ecosystem for research and innovation, the UZH Healthy Longevity Center relies on real-world data on the diversity of aging.
What are your ideas and wishes for your own aging? How would you like to grow old? On the one hand, the Healthy Longevity Center of the UZH aims at mapping the complexity and diversity of old age. To this end, it draws on a variety of data that provide information about people’s behavior and activities in everyday life. It also incorporates information on the living environment and the characteristics of individuals. Technology and digitization help to collect such data close to everyday life, to integrate data from different sources with each other and to evaluate them in a theory-based way.
These data form the empirical basis for the second step, which the Healthy Longevity Center is striving to achieve: the development of innovations for the longest possible healthy life. This means enabling individuals to do the things that are personally valuable to them for as long as possible. Here, we work closely with partners from academia, but also with practice and business partners. Last but not least, we follow a participatory approach of involving older adults as partners.
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Video: Andreas Huber explains what a Music Mirros is.
Video: Music mirror – A study of audiobiographical support for people with dementia.
Video: Consulting competence on life in old age
