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Innovation meets lived experience: Rethinking homes for longer lives
The Longevity Home in Newcastle was the UK's first real world 'living lab' for healthy ageing - a space where residents, care professionals, technologists, and housing providers co created the future of independent living. Developed through a collaboration between Bernicia, the North East Combined Authority, and Newcastle University's National Innovation Centre for Ageing, the home functioned as a dynamic testbed where people could trial innovations such as circadian lighting, digital communication tools, and emergency response technologies, shaping them through lived experience. This session will explore what the Longevity Home taught us about designing neighbourhoods that support independence, wellbeing, and connection as people age. Panellists will discuss how housing, health, and technology sectors can work together to create homes - and communities - that help people live better for longer.