Human-Centred Co-Design

In ALERT, facilitators viewed co-design as a collaborative method for identifying locally relevant solutions while requiring careful navigation of social and institutional complexity. The coproduction process tailored the programme to older adults and adolescents in Ireland. The article presents co-design as potentially empowering and supportive of implementation, workflow improvement, behavior change, community building, and mutual accountability. A co-design model will involve people with disabilities, families, workers, professionals, government stakeholders, academics, and education designers throughout the project. The study uses Participatory Action Research to emphasise social change, community participation, empowerment, and collaborative research. Co-design was used because it involves patients, healthcare professionals, and other end users in developing locally suitable healthcare solutions. Participant feedback led facilitators to adapt later sessions. The first study phase used semistructured Zoom interviews with four patients and four health professionals. The study used human-centred design to ground the model in lived experience and clinical expertise. The study use…