Boundless connections
Project Info
Project Description
Our poject aims to bridge communities together and encourage active lifestyles by paring carers/volunteers with aged and disable.
Data Story
there is alot of data on health and wellbeing, our project aims to increase the positive data out there by encouraging the communities to come together and be active. Location, city and state data is used to encourage application users to venture out and explore together.
Team DataSets
Wheelchair-accessible public toilets
Description of Use: Accounting for the availability of wheelchair friendly public restrooms when suggesting routes and places for volunteers to bring the elderly to.
Metro Train Stations with Accessibility Information
Description of Use: Taking into account the availability of facilities catering to aged and disabled persons when suggesting routes and places for volunteers to bring them.
Sport and Recreational Facilities
Description of Use: Utilises the list of facilities when suggesting places for volunteers to bring elderly to.
DSS Payment Demographic Data for Young Carers
Description of Use: For young carers who are looking after aged persons, this serves as a proactive measure for volunteers to ease their burden.
Victoria Freewifi Access Point Locations
Description of Use: Free wifi would generally be useful facility and point of interest for routes and attractions.
Recreation Historic Relics
Description of Use: Uses the data as information for possible attractions that volunteers can bring people to.
Events Victoria - Widget
Description of Use: Good to know events that are happening to bring aged persons to attend.
Pedestrian volume (updated monthly)
Description of Use: Taking into account congestion and crowds may cause inconvenience when bringing elderly around.
Emergency Road Closures
Description of Use: Attempting to account for transportation inconvenience when planning routes for bringing the elderly around.
AIHW Aged Care
Description of Use: Information on technology adoption amongst the elderly is available, which will give us an idea of how feasible the solution is. Improving technology adoption from this group would also be a benefit. Information on aged people from culturally diverse backgrounds will help us to provide assistance to the subsection of elderly who are most likely to experience isolation and require help.
People's care needs in aged care
Description of Use: Aside from providing companionship, it would be likely that the solution will move towards covering a wider range of volunteering efforts that will target the needs of aged persons as closely as possible.
Road Works and Events Lines Snapshot
Description of Use: Accounting for traffic disruptions when planning routes for escorting the elderly.
Indicators of wellbeing by year (Future Melbourne)
Description of Use: The solution we are looking into directly impacts the wellbeing of elderly residents, and that of their carers. Using the indicators, we can target specific outcomes such as increasing the participation of residents in arts and cultural activities among the elderly, improving personal relations, volunteering, self-reported health and quality of life.
Bureau of Meteorology District forecasts
Description of Use: Taking into account weather variations when suggesting routes and activities for volunteers to bring the elderly for. As an example, the app should not suggest a walk in the park on a rainy day.
Volunteer resource centres contact data
Description of Use: Using this data we are able to pair up new volunteers or existing volunteers in organisations with aged persons.
Government concessions and rebates for seniors
Description of Use: Information here could be used to better tailor activities suggested on the app. Encouraging seniors to take advantage of these concessions could be an objective of the solution.
Challenges
Healthy Communities Challenge
Region: Australia
ChallengeMy (Liveable) Victoria
Region: Victoria
ChallengeProtecting our Carers
Region: Australia
ChallengePlay Melbourne - A Creative City
Region: Victoria
ChallengeAustralians' stories
Region: Australia
ChallengeVictorian Multicultural Atlas
Region: Victoria
ChallengeRight 2 The Night
Region: Victoria
ChallengeBounty: Integrating AIHW
Region: Australia
ChallengeBounty: Decision Support
Region: Australia
ChallengeNavigating construction disruption - A City For People
Region: Victoria
Challenge