Point-of-care staff at hospitals and long-term care centres, and the older adults they care for, are in an ideal position to provide valuable insights for innovations. However, it can be very challenging to interrupt busy workflows and to transfer older adults to workshop spaces to attend design-thinking ideation sessions.
The Mobile Innovation Cart is a moveable lab that brings design-thinking tools to these subject matter experts at the point of care. CABHI challenged design students at OCAD University to create a mobile cart that contains tools for ideation such as whiteboards, sketch pads, writing tools and simple blocks and other manipulatives for brainstorming solution scenarios.
The Mobile Innovation Cart design was finalized in December 2016. We have hired a designer to build a prototype cart that will be trialed on the floor at Baycrest.