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Japan has a high population of elderly people, and worldwide, the number of elderly people residing in nursing homes continues to increase every year. This study explores concerns related to the quality of life (QoL) of residents in nursing homes from an inclusive design perspective. The research aims to obtain new insights into developing new prototypes that can potentially be integrated into improved QoL in nursing homes, based on an inclusive design methodology, the elderly, or users, social workers, and care managers of a facility in Japan participated from the early stages of the research. Design thinking underpinned the inclusive design approach, and four workshops were conducted with researchers from various fields, such as design, engineering, and economics, who participated to discover challenges from multiple perspectives. Based on the workshop outcomes, nursing home experts and researchers developed and evaluated five prototypes through mind mapping, text mining, and prototype production stages. The five prototypes were considered excellent communication tools in nursing homes. These five complimentary prototypes can be integrated into a comprehensive service system that can produce lasting effects on the QoL of elderly home residents. Avenues for future research require ongoing exploration and integration into more sophisticated services through operational verification to see how they globally can be used in nursing homes and various alternative elderly care models. |
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