iCARHO: Managing health and wellbeing in care homes with digital solutions

护理院在为无法照顾自己的人提供住宿和护理方面发挥着重要作用，包括那些病情较弱的人和那些处于生命后期的人。在这个项目中，我们建议分析养老院的需求、人类动机和行为，以提供有效的数字工具来监测、管理和分析他们的居民的健康和福祉，提高他们的生活质量，减少医疗保健系统的压力。将采用以用户为中心的设计过程，并举行参与性会议，让最终用户和利益相关者（家庭、护理院工作人员和医疗保健提供者）与设计师平等参与。该项目将确定和解决实际需求，并将创造平衡人力、技术和商业因素的概念性解决方案。在后期阶段，这些概念将成为面向市场的产品，对养老院、医疗保健系统和社会产生重大影响。

Care homes play an important role in providing accomodation and care for people who are unable to look after themselves, including those with more vulnerable conditions and those at the later stages of life. In this project we propose to analyse the needs, human motivations and behaviours in care homes to provide effective digital tools to monitor, manage and analyse the health and wellbeing of their residents, improving their quality of life and reducing pressure on the healthcare system. A user-centered design process will be adopted with participatory sessions involving final users and stakeholders (families, care home staff and healthcare providers) with designers on an equal footing. The project will identify and tackle real needs and will create conceptual solutions that balance human, technical and commercial factors. In a later stage, these concepts will become market-ready products with a significant impact for care homes, the healthcare system and the society.