In the SHAW project we worked with employers, employees, professional bodies, and other key stakeholders, to deepen our understanding of how work and health are intertwined in older workers’ everyday lives, and to design innovative workplace interventions to support the health and wellbeing of older workers.

In partnership with case study organisations in the finance, manufacturing, and social care sectors, we worked with employees aged 50+ to explore changes in health, and ‘hidden health’ issues in particularly, which tend to be overlooked in workplace health interventions.

After gaining in-depth understanding of the health needs of older workers, we have used a co-design approach to involve older workers in the development and testing of a range of workplace health interventions.

The project is led by the University of Edinburgh Business School and counted on the support of Design Informatics team to carry out the co-design process and develop interventions and outputs.