As part of its efforts to enhance services provided to senior citizens and people with disabilities; The Department of Social Services in Sharjah launched the "Living Lab" service, by training and rehabilitating the disabled in ways to adapt and deal with daily living matters (bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, hall and self-care) and other daily necessities. Kholoud Abdullah Al Ali, director of the Seniors Services Center, said: The Living Laboratory was launched in early 2019 from the nursing home in Sharjah, to be developed and expanded to include all the disabled in the cities of the Emirate of Sharjah through the Elderly Services Center as well as its branches. The Director of the Seniors Services Center noted; The laboratory aims to enable the independence of the disabled and enable them to carry out their daily lives and adapt to the environment in which they live in a natural way, as the program includes ways to coexist with all means. Kholoud Al Ali added that the living laboratory services provided are complementary to the rest of the home care services provided by the Elderly Services Center, after the home visit, where the specialized team assesses whether the case needs a living laboratory service; It is transferred to benefit from the services of the laboratory as a kind of treatment plan to ensure adaptation to the surrounding environment, especially the cases that have become recently incapacitated, adding that this step comes in order to ensure the stability of the psychological state that the beneficiary is going through, as it is a kind of support and standing with him. As an incentive to get over it. Since the launch of the Living Lab service, about 1416 senior citizens and people with disabilities have been trained at the level of the Emirate of Sharjah and its cities in Sharjah, Hamriyah, Al Dhaid, Khorfakkan, Kalba, Al Madam, Al Bataeh, Maliha and Dibba Al Hisn, provided that the beneficiary is one of those who meet the conditions for benefiting from the services of the department and is incapacitated and employed A wheelchair as the laboratory environment is suitable for such cases. With regard to the relationship between the living laboratory and the mobile units, Kholoud indicated that there is a difference between the two services, as the mobile units have services that specialize in providing home services to the affiliates according to the periodicity of the visit, whether they are medical, social, or physical therapy visits, all of which include nursing services.