Health and welfare technology (HWT) covers a wide sphere of different appliances and solutions, affecting diverse users’ lives, health care and care, and societies. This future-oriented study examines challenges and opportunities of HWT use and related service design and innovation in advancing health and wellbeing of citizens and professional caregivers. With a multi-stakeholder perspective, we scan the horizons regarding HWT support for diverse users, and societies, in health care and care. The study is based on a series of creative horizon scanning workshops that involved nearly 200 researchers and stakeholders based in Nordic countries and synthesized knowledge of HWT at three levels: older age clients/patients and people.
Book chapter; Export Date: 23 April 2025; Cited By: 0; Correspondence Address: H. Melkas; LUT University, Finland; email: helina.melkas@lut.fi