Know-Me: A Toolkit for Designing Personalised Dementia Care

Gubing Wang, Armagan Albayrak, Eef Hogervorst and Tischa J. M. van der Cammen
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Gubing Wang: Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology, 2628 CE Delft, The Netherlands
Armagan Albayrak: Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology, 2628 CE Delft, The Netherlands
Eef Hogervorst: School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University, Loughborough LE11 3TU, UK
Tischa J. M. van der Cammen: Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology, 2628 CE Delft, The Netherlands

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 11, 1-18

Abstract: Personalisation 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.

Keywords: dementia; human-centred design; design tool; personalised dementia care; ergonomics; co-design; data-enabled design; design education; nursing homes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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