Design of an App for the Awareness of Active Ageing Linked to Cultural Heritage

The promotion of cultural heritage is an area in which older people can be actively involved, as their experiences and memories are an active and relevant source of information. However, older people are not fully aware of this. Therefore, it is important to promote a campaign of awareness towards them in this aspect, since this would also contribute to favor an active ageing, enhancing certain cognitive capacities. New technologies are an increasingly useful mean for this active ageing, with mobile phones, tablets and computers being used more and more commonly among the older population. The development of mobile applications for use with these devices is on the increase, solving the limitations that the elderly population would have towards the use of these new technologies. The aim of this project is to design an app for the dissemination among the elderly of the awareness of active ageing linked to cultural heritage. Taking into account the requirements associated with the limitations of the elderly for its correct use, a very simple app for Android platform has been designed for Smartphone devices through which they can access content corresponding to different cultural areas, mainly composed of videos in which elderly people promote cultural heritage. This app, which has an interface very simple with few buttons and easy menus, supposes an important means to promote active ageing using cultural heritage, involving them more and more in the use of new technologies.