curiousChallenge Explorer
Healthcareintermediate~35 mins

Create a system that helps elderly patients manage multiple medications safely.

Older adults often juggle several medications with different timings and interactions.

Real-world context

Older adults often juggle several medications with different timings and interactions. Confusion leads to missed or doubled doses and dangerous hospital visits.

The challenge

Create a system that helps elderly patients manage multiple medications safely. Study who is affected, dig past the obvious symptoms to the real root causes, and design a solution that could actually work in the real world. There is no single correct answer — what matters is the quality of your thinking, the stakeholders you consider, and how clearly you justify your chosen direction.

Reflection prompts

  • Who is most affected by this problem, and how did you account for them?
  • What is the single biggest risk to your solution working?
  • Which assumption, if wrong, would break your whole idea?