Resources for design and research
in aging, brain change, and care

Published and free. Start with the course, or browse whatever you need.

 

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What product leaders in AgeTech need to know about user experience

 
 

A free 21-day email course. Three minutes a day.

By the end, you will know what changes with age, what that means for your interface, and which decisions matter most—before you spend limited budget building the wrong thing.

 

Tools you can use this week

The Comprehensive UX Audit Checklist for AgeTech

A 13-page PDF
Score your product against standards for legibility, cognitive burden, intuitiveness, emotional impact, care, trust, and safety. Most teams find three fixable problems in the first pass.

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Your Guide to High-Impact UX Research in AgeTech and Care

9 chapters, easy read
How research improves safety, satisfaction, and adoption for older adults and people living with brain change, without breaking the project budget. Covers recruiting, session design, and what to do when you cannot reach your users directly.

→ Read the guide

PODCAST

Designing for Dignity

Conversations with the people building for aging, brain health, and care. Founders, researchers, clinicians, and caregivers on what actually works.

Designing for Dignity
Designing for Caregivers: Finding the Real Human Stories with Nicole Will of Will Gather
Designing for Caregivers: Finding the Real Human Stories with Nicole Will of Will Gather

What does it take to truly understand the people you are designing for in aging and care? In this episode of Designing for Dignity, Erin Young speaks with Nicole Will, founder of Will Gather, a platform and podcast at the intersection of aging, caregiving, and AgeTech. Nicole shares her journey from family caregiver at age 15 to gerontologist, registered nursing assistant, and AgeTech advisor with over 240 podcast episodes.

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Designing Low-Friction Cognitive Health Tools Based on Voice and Sound with Kara Uchtman of Vibes AI
Designing Low-Friction Cognitive Health Tools Based on Voice and Sound with Kara Uchtman of Vibes AI

What if your voice could reveal what is happening in your brain years before any symptoms appear? In this episode of Designing for Dignity, Erin Young sits down with Kara Uchtman, Clinical Research Officer at Vibes AI, a company building low-friction cognitive health tools based on voice and sound. They explore early cognitive detection, the ethics of longitudinal voice data, and what it truly means to design for dignity in brain health.

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Connecting Generations through VR Gaming with David Wyatt of Mighty Coconut
Connecting Generations through VR Gaming with David Wyatt of Mighty Coconut

What happens when virtual reality becomes a bridge between generations? In this episode of Designing for Dignity, host Erin Young talks with David Wyatt, Head of Communications and Business Strategy at Mighty Coconut, about how the hit VR game Walkabout Mini Golf unexpectedly became a favorite among older players. They explore how VR, aging, and accessibility intersect, and what game designers can learn from older adults who are embracing play in digital spaces.

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PEER MASTERMIND GROUP

Connect with other people doing this work

Building in aging, brain change, and care can be lonely. The people who understand your problems are scattered across companies that do not compete with each other, and there is no obvious room where they gather.

We are forming a small monthly group for leaders in this space. Conversations about real problems, with people who have the same ones.

Interested in the peer mastermind group? Fill out the form below.

We talk with everyone before extending an invitation.

 
 
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