Don’t They do That? Interdisciplinary Iterative Design of a Personal Health Application for Older Adults
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Older adults during transitions of care find it difficult to manage and share their complex medication regimes [Coleman 2003]. Research shows that older adults take an average of five medications per day [Kaufman et al. 2002]. In addition, medication regimes are complicated because older adults, with declining cognitive abilities, may receive prescriptions from different doctors with different dosing frequencies [Ruscin and Semla 1996]. If older adults cannot manage their medication regimes, they can have serious health consequences, such as worsened conditions and higher mortality risks [Ho et al. 2006; Kettani et al. 2009; McDermott et al. 1997]. It is estimated that medication management errors cost over $100 billion per year to the United States populace [Gibaldi 1996]. The design community has responded to these problems by assessing user needs for medication management [Palen and Aalø kke 2006] and developing medication management technologies [Hayes et al. 2006; Kaushik et al. 2008; Wan 1999]. These efforts have been piecemeal with little collaboration between the user needs, medical experts, and technology researchers. In addition, with the exception of work by Eric Coleman and colleagues [2004], the aforementioned systems would not meet the needs of older adults during transitions of care because they do not provide older adults with the functionality necessary to manage and share medication regimes. In this paper, we present a comprehensive case study tracing the iterative design process to create a functional Personal Health Application (PHA) the Colorado Care Tablet (CCT) for older adults and caregivers in transitions of care that was informed by a user needs assessment [Haverhals et al. ], doctors, and interaction
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Don't They Do That? Interdisciplinary Iterative Design of a Personal Health Application for Older Adults ; CU-CS-1064-10
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تاریخ انتشار 2010