Student group’s challenge

“Elderly people who drink too little water are easily dehydrated and this is bad for their health. […] The students’ lifestyle approach was that we need to make elderly people more aware that they are at risk of dehydration. […] The students, for example, came up with the idea of a smart drinking cup. And the students wanted to integrate the cup with e-technology and e-health, so that the smart drinking cup would tell elderly to drink more. […] However, the students abandoned the idea, because it has already been thought of several times and it does not work, it is expensive, and it is typical tech-optimism that does not fit well with the elderly population. So, then the students abandoned that path” [T14 dehydration elderly people].

Teaching activities

“And then I also said to the students, ‘have you already checked whether that idea does not already exist?’” [T14 dehydration elderly].