Considerations When Designing Inclusive Digital Health Solutions for Older Adults Living With Frailty or Impairments.

ABSTRACT: This viewpoint is written by authors with industrial, clinical, and academic backgrounds within medical and social sciences. The purpose is to share our experiences with digital health innovation from a sociotechnical perspective. The audience for the viewpoint is innovators, researchers, service designers, and project managers with little or some experience with theory-informed programs, complex interventions, and implementation or reorganization of sociotechnical ecosystems in health care. In digital health innovation projects, barriers related to traditions and cultures among researchers, clinicians, and industry may arise. Moreover, the final digital solutions may not always fit into existing digital ecosystems and may thus require a reorganization of how health care is provided at hor

SUBMITTER: Wegener EK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11535789 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature