The first article I read was “How Information Sharing about Care Recipients by Family Caregivers Impacts Family Communications”. I will say that I was confused by most of the terms used but in simple understanding I understood what was being done. There is a communication problem between caregivers and care recipients. Sensitive data and the need for privacy creates a strain between the two parties. This article is giving a possible solution of creating and sharing sensitive information through a journal like documentor that collects the data and puts it all into a chart. This was seen as an effective way to communicate between caregiver and the recipients without the feeling of invading privacy. There was also the bias since the caregivers were mostly female and that leads to a different kind of burden than men. In the end it showed that the application/journal was effective on bridging a gap between communication problems.

The second article that I read was “Designing Health and Fitness Apps with Older Adults” This article was much more simple and straightforward besides some weird citing things going on. This article was about making an app that older adults would continue to use. It was shown that app have no motivation usage for the older adults to continue to use them. So to attempt to solve the issue at hand the team decided to partner with 25 older adults to create one. This was very smart in my eyes simply because who better to make an app for older adult, than older adults! This partnership created a process of questionnaires of what older adults wanted in an app to make it more useful, leading to using the app for more than three months. They followed up multiple times to create the design of the technology and what would be on the fitness technologies.  I highly support this way of fixing things because you get two perspectives, creating a better product to solve problems!