Vignette Name | Need | Current Approach | Alternate Suggestion | What could be created |
Peggy | Peggy needs to be able to do multiple caregiving tasks, but doesn’t have enough time. | Creates to do lists | ||
Peggy is overwhelmed with taking care of her daughter and her mother. | Handydart – assistive car services for people with cognitive/physical impairment | |||
Pippa | Pippa needs help managing her mom; she does the finances, takes care of assistive technologies, books appointments, and keeps track of medications. This is time consuming and sometimes she forgets things. | Pippa is not working fulltime, only part time so that she has more time for her mother. | ||
Pippa needs help dealing with the overwhelming feeling from all the new technology. She wishes there was a website to offer guidance and resources for those faced with challenges in learning how to use new technologies. | ||||
Michael | Michael needs help taking care of his dad because he started to feel more and more overwhelmed as his father’s condition progressed. Ex: cleaning up his father’s toileting. This was a concern because his father would have to stand up and he has balance problems. | This became less of an issue when his father moved into assisted living. | ||
Adèle | Adèle is worried because she feels she has less energy to go shopping because she has to bring everything back, put it away, and prepare meals. |