Discovering the barriers to scaling a co-design approach for the provision of custom assistive technology within healthcare services
<b>Discussion:</b> The identified barriers relate to both the provision of off-the-shelf and the co-design of customised AT. Further promoting the scaling up of a co-design custom AT process requires: improving communication between stakeholders, enabling information about AT to be easily accessible, ensuring feedback is gathered and used, and creating tools that enable non-expert designers to modify custom AT designs safely and effectively.
Authors
- Katie Beverley
- Dominic Eggbeer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0515-3463)
- Jonathan Howard (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5387-7266)
- Sally Cloke (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0013-4629)
Institutions
- Swansea Bay University Health Board (GB)
- Morriston Hospital (GB)
- Swansea University (GB)
- Health & Life (Taiwan) (TW)
- Cardiff Metropolitan University (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Disability and Rehabilitation Assistive Technology
- Published
- 2024-09-26
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1080/17483107.2024.2406443
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Technology Use by Older Adults
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.71
Funders
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council