Project Overview

2RaceWithMe gives residents in long-term care enjoyable exercise and a way to experience parts of the outside world that they are no longer able to travel to all while being comfortably seated in a chair or wheelchair. Residents can also video conference with their family while exercising, thereby reducing social isolation. The project will use three phases of investigation: baseline, three-month follow-up, and final follow-up, and will conduct focus groups at each phase. This project will include user-centred design and refinement of the intervention based on feedback from residents, staff and family. The aim will be to learn from AGE-WELL innovation hubs and research centres and from our successful implementation of 2RaceWithMe at York Care Centre to develop an implementation plan that will first be tested and refined at the Faubourg du Mascaret care home in Moncton. At the conclusion of this project, we expect to have a highly refined implementation plan that can be used to implement 2RaceWithMe successfully in a variety of settings. This will allow us to scale up sales of 2RaceWithMe, with the goal of being the market leader in exergaming solutions for older people throughout North America.