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Personas under the Blueprint of the European Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP on AHA)

This infographic shows the 12 Blueprint personas that have been developed to use in user-experience design and user research, describe example users and enable organisations to understand their potential needs better, consider users' needs, aspirations, attitudes and dreams and assess other relevant user characteristics like psycho-social forces, health or care choices and health or care outcomes.

This infographic shows the 12 Blueprint personas that have been developed to use in user-experience design and user research, describe example users and enable organisations to understand their potential needs better, consider users' needs, aspirations, attitudes and dreams and assess other relevant user characteristics like psycho-social forces, health or care choices and health or care outcomes.

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Blueprint Personas

· ARE USED IN USER-EXPERIENCE DESIGN AND USER RESEARCH

· DESCRIBE EXAMPLE USERS

· ENABLE ORGANISATIONS TO:

- Understand their potential users better

- Consider users’ needs, aspirations, attitudes, and dreams

- Assess other relevant user characteristics like psycho-social forces, health or care choices, and health or care outcomes

These 12 personas:

Represent different population segments 

Show the realistic health and care needs of various groups in society

Help meet specific unmet health, wellbeing and care needs at different points in time during a person’s life 

Help you to:

Build a deeper understanding of user segments

Improve the user experience

Identify unmet needs 

Examine what potential digital solutions might help these personas

Can be useful for:

Government

National or regional health system

Medical general practice

Industry

Research

Study

Personas in use

Campania Region in Italy developed some new personas:

• In internal meetings and training sessions in the Campania regional ProMIS network

• In a working group on integrated care with patients

Health Centre Zagreb – Centar in Croatia used the Blueprint personas to focus on:

• Innovative monitoring solutions to improve people’s health and optimise hypertension care

• Assessment of end-users’ needs

• Different change management strategies in health and care systems

AFEdemy, a small consultancy based in the Netherlands used the personas with: 

• Facilitators wanting to implement smart healthy age-friendly environments

  - To enable better understanding of the people with whom they are working or volunteering

  - To navigate online learning modules effectively