Improving End of Life Care

Everything starts after overcoming the fear of death

Last time, we shared about our event planning bracelet, which is our prototype 3, and Popo’s visit to Death Cafe. After visiting Death Cafe, we learned something very fundamental, but crucial. With all of our research and interviews…

Prototype 3- Making end-of-life experience poetic

Last time, we talked about puzzle collage poster and how it lacked potential buy-in from a patient and lacked emotional/personal aspect. We felt we were stuck in a pothole, because we could not think of a good way to make our solution poetic…

Prototype 2- Our take at putting ‘life’ into end of life care…

The main takeaway from our initial in-class crit session, in which everyone shared his or her thoughts using post-its, was that our solution, the one we covered in the previous post, was too informative and feels very…

Prototype 1- Toolkit to Prevent Late Referral

After the feedback from the video we decided to pivot and find a new idea that…

Ideation

Next Steps

We had a talk with Molly and Christen in class about some of the ideas that we had brainstormed…

Next Steps

From our Surveys and interviews we were able to identify the overlapping issues and key opportunities for design:

Overlapping Issues:

• Even though everyone wants to have a painless and peaceful death, many people generally fear talking about it…

Interviews With Experts

We have come up with a template of questions for interviewing our experts. These questions act as a guideline for the conversation, we usually let the conversations flow naturally.

Survey 1- understanding people’s thoughts about death in general

We created a survey in order to understand more about what people think about death and their knowledge about palliative care. However, we did not think about the consequences well enough before we deployed our survey…

Focusing on Hospice Care and Palliative Care

Hospice vs. Palliative:

In some settings, hospice refers to a freestanding residential care facility for people in the last weeks of life.