🔭 Process

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This concerns the steps that were taken to gather information about the problem space, users and stakeholders.

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The following techniques were used to gather data:

1. Desk Research (Literature Review)
2. Questionnaire (Focus: Community perception)
3. Phone interviews (Focus: Core users - 50+ year-old Ghanaians)

⚖️ Results

Themes

• Physical and cognitive decline
• Isolation and loneliness
• Health and safety concerns

Existing solutions

• Wearable devices, smartphones and tablets → to aid physical activity
• Social support groups, video conferencing, social media→ To combat loneliness
• Physical and environmental modifications, exercise programs, and medication management → To aid health and safety concerns
• In-home health care and financial support for caregivers → To help aged people support

Implication of Research

• Geriatric healthcare
• Caregiving
• Financial support
• Physical and cognitive decline → interpersonal relationships and using technology
• Isolation and loneliness