I'm in! Towards participatory healthcare of elderly through IOT.

People today are a capable of living longer, healthier lives than ever before, which results in a growing elderly population. The elderly face issues of reduced physical ability, having to manage multiple health issues over long periods of time, and being digital immigrants. These issues pose unique challenges that often lead to elderly feeling loss of agency due to not being actively involved in managing their own well-being. In this paper, we propose participatory design of IOT technologies to enact universal design in order to better include elderly in managing their health, and thus improving their quality of life.