Solutions for healthy and active ageing: Collaborative Codesign Competition (CO3)
Description: older people's needs include the detection of high-risk emotional states and maintaining healthy self-care habits. The Collaborative Codesign Competition (CO3) was organized to come up with solutions for the challenges that older people face in their daily lives.
People involved: university students, health professionals, and members of an older people's recreational centre.
Organizations involved: HIMSS Europe, Badalona Serveis Assistencials, and the UOC.
UBESAFE. An app for promoting sexual health in the gay community
Description: the Ubesafe app seeks to promote and increase awareness of safe sexual practices in order to prevent sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). Users can set up the app so they receive messages when they use certain other apps (eg dating apps such as Grindr, Wapo or Gayromeo), or when they approach a place they have personally identified as a place where they should be warned about potential unprotected sex situations.
People involved: Antoni Pérez, professor in the UOC's Faculty of Computer Science, Multimedia and Telecommunications, and postgraduate studies coordinator.
Organizations involved: the UOC.
Nutrapp, an online nutrition education platform
Description: Nutrapp offers advice on nutrition to individuals, schools, associations and companies, and gives users answers to their doubts on the spot. It works using instant messaging apps, social media and the interactive web app nutrapp.cat.
People involved: Alicia Aguilar, director of the UOC's Master's Degree in Nutrition and Health.
Organizations involved: the UOC.
PSICODEM web app
Description: The fundamental characteristic of dementia is the development of multiple cognitive impairments, including memory loss, which is often accompanied by other impairments such as aphasia, apraxia, agnosia or other executive dysfunctions. Other symptoms and disorders often linked to dementia include anxiety, depression, and lack of autonomy.
The PSICODEM app helps determine the best psycho-social intervention, in accordance with the existing scientific evidence, and depending on the patient’s level of dementia and the aspects to be treated. This can mean just preventing further cognitive impairment, just treating the other symptoms and disorders, or treating both aspects at the same time.
People involved: Carme Carrion and Marta Aymerich.
Organizations involved: the UOC. This project received funding from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation’s Carlos III Health Institute (PI09/90931).
Open innovation in eHealth to improve the quality of life for people with Parkinson's disease
Description: OPENeHEALTH Parkinson is an open innovation programme involving the UOC community and those affected by the disease. Its goal is to improve the quality of life for people with Parkinson's disease.
People involved: Alicia Aguilar, director of the UOC's Master's Degree in Nutrition and Health.
Organizations involved: the UOC, the Research Institute of the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, and GMV Innovating Solutions.
COMJunts aids medical communication
Description: COMJunts is an app designed to help the families of children suffering rare diseases, offering them guidance and facilitating communication with medics. Its development stemmed from studies performed in the RecerCaixa programme's Junts project. The app focuses on seven different challenges faced by families, each one with a video in which health professionals and families offer the benefit of their experience, expandable text sections explaining the situation, a basic glossary of medical terms, and other resources and links to help users deals with everyday problems.
People involved: Rosa Estopà and Mercè Lorente (IULA-UPF), Ona Domènech (IULA-UPF and UOC Faculty of Arts and Humanities), Manuel Armayones, Beni Gómez-Zúñiga, Modesta Pousada (UOC eHealth Center and UOC Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences), Alicia García-Oliva (UOC Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences), Eduardo Tizzano (Clinical Genetics department at Vall d'Hebron Hospital), Jordi Cruz, Anna Ripoll and Regla Garci (FEDER).
Organizations involved: Obra Social "la Caixa", the Catalan Public Universities Association (ACUP), Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Vall d'Hebron Hospital, FEDER (Spanish Federation of Rare Diseases) and families connected to this organization.