Another Demansion: Insight into the life of people with Young Onset Dementia and their relatives in order to design a care home facilitating them in their well-being

Dementia is a familiar brain disorder, generally seen as a disease of the elderly and care homes are designed as such. However, also people between 30 and 65 can get dementia, called Young Onset Dementia and are overlooked now in architecture. Due to the different life stage in which the disease occurs, these mainstream facilities do not fit...

Dementia in the Built Environment

From Prototype to Proposition: a Design Perspective on Scaling The Box: Framing Design Opportunities for Scaling while Supporting an Efficient Workflow that Reduces the Burden on Healthcare Professionals

The Box contains monitoring devices patients can use to perform monitoring activities in the comfort of their home. The success of the service relies on active patient participation. With The Box, the treating medical team now has insights in the patient’s health condition from a distance. It doesn’t require the patient to be physically present...

SLOWLY: A digital reflection tool to help Dutch nurses tell their story.

The extraordinary working conditions caused by the first wave of COVID-19 patients caused stress, anxiety and lack of sleep in frontline nurses. This negatively impacted their psychological well being which is important for providing optimal care and maintaining long-term employability (Schoonhoven & Trappenburg, 2020). There is a lack of...