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Know-me: a toolkit for designing personalised dementia care
journal contribution
posted on 2021-08-02, 12:49 authored by Gubing Wang, Armagan Albayrak, Eef HogervorstEef Hogervorst, Tischa JM van der CammenPersonalisation is a crucial element in providing person-centred care for people with dementia. This paper presents the development and evaluation of a design toolkit to facilitate the work of designers and healthcare professionals in personalising dementia care. This toolkit, named “Know-me”, was grounded in the findings of Ergonomics in Aging, Co-design, and Data-enabled Design, derived from literature review and from the field during a four-year doctorate project. “Know-me” was designed to be easily accessible, flexible, and engaging, providing concrete and hands-on guidance for designers and healthcare professionals to use in designing for personalised dementia care. A proof-of-concept evaluation of the “Know-me” toolkit was conducted via student projects on design for dementia care. During this process, we found that “Know-me” could be adapted flexibly so that the care team could use some of the tools by themselves. A feature-by-feature comparison of the “Know-me” toolkit with similar state-of-the-art toolkits was conducted, and based upon this, the strengths and weaknesses of the “Know-me” toolkit are discussed. This preliminary study indicates that the “Know-me” toolkit is a helpful addition to the current pool of toolkits on designing for dementia care.
Funding
Chinese Scholarship Council (grant number: 201708060174)
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School
- Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public HealthVolume
18Issue
11Publisher
MDPI AGVersion
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This is an Open Access Article. It is published by MDPI under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0). Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Acceptance date
2021-05-23Publication date
2021-05-25Copyright date
2021ISSN
1661-7827eISSN
1660-4601Publisher version
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