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Age-Friendly Home Living Lab

The Innovation Engine for Age-Friendly Living

Unlike laboratories that generally conduct tests in controlled environments, the Living Lab process collects testing feedback from potential users in real home settings. This approach enables developers to accurately understand user needs and develop innovative products that truly cater to older adults.

The Age-Friendly Home Living Lab brings together a diverse group of stakeholders — including academia, research institutions, NGOs, industry experts, and potential users — and embraces the principle of “User-Driven – Experience-Focused” to advance gerontechnology and age-friendly product development, building safer, more comfortable, and barrier-free homes for older adults.

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Introduction Video: The Age-Friendly Home Living Lab

Why the Age-Friendly Home Living Lab?

With the rapid ageing of the population, the market has driven continuous innovation and advanced age-friendly products, yet many often fall short of meeting the real needs of older adults. This is precisely why the Age-Friendly Home Living Lab emphasises user involvement at every stage of the product development cycle, helping developers create more down-to-earth and practical solutions that genuinely support ageing in place.

Bridge the gap between age-friendly product concepts and the real needs of older adults, ensuring solutions are relevant and practical

Accelerate the development of age-friendly products

Promote innovation through diverse and inclusive product development

Effectively support ageing in place and active ageing for older adults

Our Collaborators

(arranged in alphabetical order)

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Belun
Booguu
Centre for Intelligent Multidimensional Data Analysis Limited
Christian Family Service Centre
CLP Power Hong Kong
Community CareAge Foundation
CUHK Jockey Club Institute of Ageing
Cyberport Hong Kong
Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Golden Age Foundation
HappyAgingLab
HKDandDA
HKU-Med-School Of Nursing
HKU-SWSA
Hong Kong Christian Service
Hong Kong Design Institute
Hong Kong Occupational Therapy Association
Hong Kong Red Cross
Hong Kong Science & Technology Parks Corporation
LIXIL
NAMI
Research Centre for Assistive Technology
Student Innovation for Global Health Technology
Studio-R
Swinburne University of Technology
The Hong Kong and China Gas Company Limited
The Hong Kong Institute of Planners
Wings