A POSSIBLE USER STORY
Jasmine is worried, since her man died a while years ago, she’s worrying about daily things, doesn’t like to wake up or prepare a meal and sometimes feels she is daydreaming while being awake. She wonders if something is wrong with her and if she should call a doctor or psychologist.
Then she hears of MeFIT, the mental Fitness community. Offering self-assessments and mental fitness training programs, enabling older adults to work in virtual groups to improve their mental fitness from home in a fun way. When Jasmine hears this, she goes to the website and starts the assessments (find out how to use the system by downloading the application to her smart device). The outcome of this assessment is an early warning that probably a mild depression combined with loneliness. In order to counter this, she is offered to start a family community, to join an elderly neighbourhood group, a storytelling group and a cognitive group training program. She likes her family, but is a bit too shy to tell them about her worries. So she decides to join the initiating older adult neighbourhood Mental Fitness Group and the Social Training Group. She receives dates and times when to login and so her adventure starts.
After a while she doesn’t know which group she likes more, the neighbourhood Mental Fitness Group, conducting mainly group sessions, with Peter, Tim and Linda of mental puzzles and dilemmas in the morning and evening. Puzzles that require a lot of their mental capacity, speed or collaboration capacity as the system says sometimes only one of them is allowed to enter the solutions, while the others can help this person. Or the Social Training Group a workshop activity, showing images to the group to which they receive questions in time, she does with Sandy, Maria and Yoshua. From Yoshua she hears about the storytelling group and decides to try that one out also. Once every two weeks, they come virtually together and get a writing mission: ’Who was your first love?’, ’where was your first home?’. Based on the accepted protocol they have 10 minutes to write it down what comes in mind and then read/tell it to each other. She hears from helping doctors who she trusts that the fitness groups are designed to stimulate different cooperation, cognitive and social skills, while at the same time diagnostic software, questionnaires and responses of other members, measure in a qualitative way their cognitive and social skills and visualize this over time to the individual members to show progress or decline. Based on the results MeFIT suggests new training modules, start personal trainings on weak areas to one person or advice to seek professional help on some topic, before things get worse. Jasmine feels happy, she is not worrying anymore. Feels safe and from now knows that she is not the only older adult worrying about her mental health and made some new friends. Strengthened by the experience she starts to communicate her problems with her family as well starting family community group. She was surprised to hear from the MeFIT that everybody of the neighbourhood group liked to get together time to time physically and drink coffee with each other a while ago. She was so happy when Linda asked her to join a local singing event together.
Then she hears of MeFIT, the mental Fitness community. Offering self-assessments and mental fitness training programs, enabling older adults to work in virtual groups to improve their mental fitness from home in a fun way. When Jasmine hears this, she goes to the website and starts the assessments (find out how to use the system by downloading the application to her smart device). The outcome of this assessment is an early warning that probably a mild depression combined with loneliness. In order to counter this, she is offered to start a family community, to join an elderly neighbourhood group, a storytelling group and a cognitive group training program. She likes her family, but is a bit too shy to tell them about her worries. So she decides to join the initiating older adult neighbourhood Mental Fitness Group and the Social Training Group. She receives dates and times when to login and so her adventure starts.
After a while she doesn’t know which group she likes more, the neighbourhood Mental Fitness Group, conducting mainly group sessions, with Peter, Tim and Linda of mental puzzles and dilemmas in the morning and evening. Puzzles that require a lot of their mental capacity, speed or collaboration capacity as the system says sometimes only one of them is allowed to enter the solutions, while the others can help this person. Or the Social Training Group a workshop activity, showing images to the group to which they receive questions in time, she does with Sandy, Maria and Yoshua. From Yoshua she hears about the storytelling group and decides to try that one out also. Once every two weeks, they come virtually together and get a writing mission: ’Who was your first love?’, ’where was your first home?’. Based on the accepted protocol they have 10 minutes to write it down what comes in mind and then read/tell it to each other. She hears from helping doctors who she trusts that the fitness groups are designed to stimulate different cooperation, cognitive and social skills, while at the same time diagnostic software, questionnaires and responses of other members, measure in a qualitative way their cognitive and social skills and visualize this over time to the individual members to show progress or decline. Based on the results MeFIT suggests new training modules, start personal trainings on weak areas to one person or advice to seek professional help on some topic, before things get worse. Jasmine feels happy, she is not worrying anymore. Feels safe and from now knows that she is not the only older adult worrying about her mental health and made some new friends. Strengthened by the experience she starts to communicate her problems with her family as well starting family community group. She was surprised to hear from the MeFIT that everybody of the neighbourhood group liked to get together time to time physically and drink coffee with each other a while ago. She was so happy when Linda asked her to join a local singing event together.