It's the Health Points Series 2 Finale recorded at the UKRI Healthy Ageing Challenge Conference, December 2023.

We have a stellar lineup for our first ever in-person recording of Health Points:

Jon Hymus: Managing Director of Innerva - https://www.innerva.com/

Bruce Elliott: CEO of Memory Lane Games - https://www.memorylanegames.com/

Silvia Lin: Founder of Tycho MedLink - www.tychomedlink.co.uk

A brilliant discussion and debate on the role and future of health gamification.

We will be back with Series 3 in Spring 2024.

Keep gaming and stay healthy, Ben & Pete

We're onto the penultimate Health Points episode for Series 2, and we have a cracking episode. Joining us is Pippa Boothman, CEO at Playfinity.

https://playfinity.com/

Pippa has a background studying sociology and criminology and previous roles in marketing and commercials before joining Playfinity.

In this episode, we explore:

1. Rather than focusing on the 2% of kids and adolescents who follow the competitive track for sports, instead focusing on the 98% of kids and adolescents whose main focus for sport, is fun.
2. Using technology, not to create new sports, but to measure sports actions, adding new game mechanics to existing exercises and sports
3. From kids jumping one million times with Plyfinity, to games which are powered by the number of ball kicks, highlighting the importance of new engaging ways to motivate kids to be active, for them, and their healthy future.

Welcome to Episode 14 of Series 2, and joining us is Bruce Elliot, Co-Founder and CEO of Memory Lane Games.

Before Memory Lane Games, Bruce had a twenty-year track record of building world-class, innovative eCommerce companies. Having competed with Paypal in the online payment world to bring Kodak into the blockchain world, Bruce has led start-ups and publicly traded companies from start-up to 1 million users and $250M annual revenues.

Memory Lane Games started following a conversation between the co-founders on how to support family members, and now it's delivering over 3,000 cognitive-stimulating and socialising games, with over 100k downloads that’s being played in over 130 countries.

https://www.memorylanegames.com/

In this episode, we explore:

• Designing ’ frustration-free’ games that includes ‘errorless learning’ that promotes longer-term engagement, social interaction, cognitive stimulation and empowered play
• Which all results in more laughter, happiness, improved communication, relaxation, inter-generational connections and the potential to improve the symptoms of dementia globally.