Co-designing an online medication management portal for older people and their caregivers

The aim of this research project is to develop an online medication management portal, with, and for older people with the view to empowering older people to make informed decisions for their health, promote patient engagement and shared decision making between patients and prescribers, consequently optimising health and improving outcomes. 

By co-designing an online portal to support older people with medication management and communicating their health and medication-related goals of care, this project aims to make headway towards deprescribing as a collaborative approach between prescriber and patient. 

Part 1

We are seeking 30-40 individuals (older people and carers who are actively involved in health research and advocacy for older people) for Part I . Participation involves:

• a survey 

  AND 

• participating in an online focus group 

to discuss the needs of older adults and medication management in relation to online technologies. Each focus group will run for 30-60mins and comprise 6-8 participants.
 

Part 2

We are seeking 5 older people and 5 carers to participate in an online usability testing session that will involve individual participants testing out the medication management website under the observation of a member(s) of the project team. Each testing session will run for approximately 45-60minutes. 

All participants (Parts 1 and 2) will be remunerated for their time with a $50 Visa gift card.