Vision: Requirements Engineering for Software Development in Aged Care

Technology can play a key role in enabling the aged care system to provide better care for the older adults. In the past few years we have collaborated with several industry partners working in the field of aged care. Some of these operate and maintain aged care facilities, and some provide technological solutions to aged care providers. These collaborations involved extensive requirements elicitation to identify the needs of aged care residents, carers, clinical staff and facility administrators, on projects including mobile apps, data analysis, workforce training, and smart homes. Based on these, we have come up with a vision on a number of opportunities, and exposed many significant challenges, for requirements engineering in the aged care software domain that must be addressed. We summarise some of these requirements engineering challenges and a propose a vision with a framework to help address them in next-generation aged care software projects.