Medical Non-Adherence - Design Research

Researching medical non-adherence in people 65+ has led to many discoveries and many insights into human behavior.

Behavioral studies will be an interesting topic to research. This, along with psychology get to the route of a person's action.

In a context such as medical non-adherence it is truly based on unique and personal characteristics that lead to a person's/patient's decision of why they are not following their doctors orders.

One could argue that a lot of medication makes people endure further pain to stop the pain that they were already having.

Jon Langer
Industrial Design and Prototyping Syracuse, NY