Home Care 2041: Signals from the future

Technological evolution has made available tools capable of connecting the patient to treating doctors and health facilities not only for ordinary activities but also for carrying out medical investigations directly at the patient's home thanks to increasingly sophisticated devices. The restrictions on the movement of people, due to the COVID-19 virus, have encouraged the use of tools already available to doctors and patients but have also accelerated the development of ongoing projects. The Italian Society of Ergonomics SIE has created a multidisciplinary working group that has tried to imagine the ways in which home care will take place in the next twenty years. The study is based on the integration between the "Human Centered Design" and "Strategic Foresight" processes. The eight researchers, according to their skills, have tried to identify the trends that will most influence the future, designing the possible scenarios in which home care will take place.