Opportunities to Support Medication Intake across Boundaries of Care

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  • Nervo Verdezoto
  • Erik Grönvall
چکیده

This paper depicts findings from a project focusing on designing medicine management support for nonclinical settings. In particular, we discuss how we can support older adults across boundaries of care in planning, informing, reminding and documenting activities. Additionally, we present opportunities when designing for everyday medication management. We use MediFrame, a tablet based app that supports older adults in their medicine intake at home and findings from its Participatory Design process to support our argumentation.

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تاریخ انتشار 2012