Toward Inclusive Design Heuristics for Digital Health Interventions for the Aging Population: Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Digital health interventions (DHI) deliver health-related services in a digital manner. Meant for older adults, they must be tailored to address their needs. This may be by applying inclusive design principles. Inclusive design is an approach that aims to accommodate the needs of a broad spectrum of users, taking into account health-related factors, socioeconomic status, age, cultural background, language diversity, and other factors.

Objective

This review aims to collect best practices on the inclusive design of DHIs for older adults and aggregate them into a set of design guidelines.

Methods

We examined peer-reviewed papers from 3 databases that described a design and development process of a DHI specifically designed for users aged 60 years or older, and

SUBMITTER: Denecke K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12770925 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature