
Neighborly
Peace of mind service for adult children living away from aging parents.
Today, 8% of the world population are 65 or older, and over 15% of the entire American population are elders. Many adults children; sandwich generation, are living distant from aging parents for better job opportunities and to provide and offer his/her own family with better quality of life. On the other hand, aging parents want to age at home where they lack other people's attention and help. There is a need and desire for busy adult children to be attentive and provide care for their aging parents while living away and busy supporting his/her own family at the same time.
Opportunity & Project Framing
Azeez Alli / Graduate Industrial Design / Visit
Geemay Chia / Graduate industrial Design / Visit
Joshua Han / Graduate Industrial Design
User Experience Design
Catherina Han / Interaction Design / Visit
Joshua Han / Graduate Industrial Design
Mobile Application Design
Catherina Han / Interaction Design / Visit
Product/Industrial Design
Joshua Han / Graduate Industrial Design
Service value
Know that you're giving a hand.
Neighborly is a service for adult children who are living away from aging parents and who needs to provide care/support for his or her own children and family, and desires to be attentive/supportive to his or her aging parents who are living away.
20%
by 2027, 1 in 5 people in the United States will be 65 or older which is equivalent to 65 million people just in the US and 850 million worldwide.
90%
Today, almost all elders who are 65 or above prefers to stay home even if they require support.
How it works
Connecting people with different needs and desires to create a solution.
The service works by connecting adult child with college students who are local to his/her parent live to provide a hand. College students are hands and feet for the adult children who wants to be attentive and provide a hand while living away. The service allows college students to accomplish simple tasks for aging parents through adults children's request.
"There are differences between digital and analogue experiences and they both have their places."



Physical product
Adding a physical layer of assurance
There is value that a physical product can add to this solution that a mobile app can't; it is a sense of assurance. The presence of a physical product allows people around different parts of the world to have clear and exact touch points of service.
