The £5.6m joint investment seeks to engage with over 600 businesses in the North of Tyne region to provide new opportunities and R&D innovations that meet the changing needs and ambitions of those living and working in the region supporting the creation of 45 new products and services, creating 145 jobs, and improving the health and wellbeing of residents.

In the last fifty years, life expectancy has increased dramatically thanks to advances in science, medicine and public awareness the population is living longer, with the average life expectancy in the UK now around 81 years old, which brings us the challenge of improving Healthy Life Expectancy (HALE), as well as opening a new landscape of opportunities to better engage with the older population in their different stages of life, allowing them to live meaningful and connected lives…Read more