Know-me

Know-me: A toolkit for designing personalised dementia care

Wang, G. (TU Delft Applied Ergonomics and Design)
Albayrak, A. (TU Delft Applied Ergonomics and Design)
Hogervorst, Eef (CREST Loughborough University)
van der Cammen, T.J.M. (TU Delft Applied Ergonomics and Design)

2021

Personalisation is a crucial element in providing person-centred care for people with de-mentia. 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.

Co-design
Data-enabled design
Dementia
Design education
Design tool
Ergonomics
Human-centred design
Nursing homes
Personalised dementia care

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:a063b6d7-71fc-4b2b-b65b-2c374e52dd8a

https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18115662

1661-7827

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18 (11)

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© 2021 G. Wang, A. Albayrak, Eef Hogervorst, T.J.M. van der Cammen