Digital interventions addressing the unmet needs of older adults with multimorbidity: a mixed-methods persona design approach.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Frailty and multimorbidity in older adults require integrated, multidomain care models. Digital health solutions offer potential for improving self-management, but a structured methodology to translate the complex unmet needs of this population into tailored digital interventions is still lacking.

Objectives

To propose and illustrate a mixed-methods, persona-based approach for mapping unmet needs of older adults with multimorbidity to candidate digital interventions.

Methods

This study employed an explanatory sequential mixed-methods design. First, quantitative data from the SUNFRAIL+ frailty screening tool were analyzed for a sub-cohort of community-dwelling older adults with polypharmacy (n = 54). These findings informed a qualitative phase conduct

SUBMITTER: De Luca V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12665755 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature