What is TAPPI?
The TAPPI Story
Over the past few decades, we have seen a ‘revolution’ in the way digital and online technologies, communications and media influence our daily lives.
However, the same cannot be said for the role of digital and technology in care, health and housing – especially in relation to older adults and people with disabilities.
Often siloed, there is an urgent need to adopt more joined-up approaches across local services and systems, enabled by technology.
While COVID-19 has helped embed the use of technology into the lives of many, it has also exacerbated the digital divide. At the same time, it provides us with an opportunity to strive for greater ‘digital integration’ across housing, health and care, putting the real needs of people at its heart.
The Technology for our Ageing Population: Panel for Innovation (TAPPI) project aims to improve the way technology is used in housing and care settings.
Chaired by Professor Roy Sandbach and funded by the Dunhill Medical Trust, phase 1 of the TAPPI Inquiry concluded in July 2021 and phase 2 finished in December 2023.
- Phase1 was about listening, gaining insights and creating a set of 10 overarching principles that could inform a new framework for all stakeholders to refer to in the context of how technology can transform the landscape of everyday living environments for older and/or disabled people.
- Phase 2 ensured that the evidence gathered was built upon and used to create a TAPPI Framework. In this second phase, digital services and solutions were assessed using the original TAPPI principles in six testbeds (or demonstrator sites). With the goal to create new, scalable housing service models using technology enabled care which support personalisation and, simply, deliver better outcomes for people, this phase gathered evidence of what is possible and challenges what is perceived to be impossible.
On these pages you will find details of the outcomes and findings of Phase 2 which were used to create a TAPPI Framework to aid and inform others seeking to adopt the TAPPI principles.
