Building on a living lab in dementia care: A transnational multiple case

study

Research Session 3: Case studies in Living Lab application domains

Diana Roeg (PhD) , Liselore Snaphaan (PhD), and Inge Bongers

(Prof. Dr.), Mental Health Care Institute GGzE, the Netherlands

The 4th ENoLL Living Lab Summer School

27th-30 August 2013

Manchester School of Arts

Overview

1. Problems in dementia care2. Innovate dementia project3. Research on how to build LL for dementia4. Results and discussion

Problems in dementia care

• Global aging • 35.6 million people worldwide living with dementia and this

number is expected to double by 2030 and more than triple by 2050

• Affects cognitive functioning, emotional control, social behaviour & independent living

• Consequences: financial, quality of care, burden family• Needed: smart solutions

Innovate Dementia project• Objectives

- Initiating stakeholder dialogue & transnational knowledge platform

- Providing state of the art care models

- Integrated testing of innovative dementia care solutions by Living Labs

• Knowledge and health care institutes of 4 countries involved:

- Krefeld, Germany

- Liverpool, UK

- Geel, Belgium

- Eindhoven, The Netherlands

• European funding: Interreg

Intelligent lightning

Nutrition/exercise

Home environment

Care models

Research on how to build a LL for dementia (1)

• Systematically followed the Living Labs

• Qualitative data collection- project reports & documents- focus group meeting- individual conversations- participative observations during international meetings

• Central: activities needed, facilitators & barriers

• Analysis: data were grouped on themes, and compared between the regions

Research on how to build a LL for dementia (2)

• Project documents• Baseline report

• Status quo reports (nov 2012)

- Start protocol, including minimal set of requirements (key principles) (jan 2013)

• Focus group meeting and conversations during site visit Eindhoven

(January 2013)

• Participative observation and converstations at transnational meeting

and site visit Liverpool (March 2013)

Results (1)

• Definition Living Lab Innovate Dementia a dynamic structure, using pragmatic and real life methodology to

explore, evaluate and validate innovations, in an open and collaborative

environment, which is user-driven and aimed at improving care for

people living with dementia.

• Minimal set of requirements

1. Dynamic structure 7.

Sustainable/ Continuity

2. Pragmatic, real life methodology 8. The needs and autonomy

3. Development and testing of innovations 9. Open infrastructure

4. User driven 10.

Networking

5. Improving care 11. Economic activity

6. Build up of the living lab architecture

Results (2)

• Activities:• First user involvement and selection of innovations

• Different innovations selected (prototypes from design researchers, existing technologies, and health care models developed by health care partners)

• Different methods for user involvement (evaluations at home, need assessments, interviews, regional stakeholder meetings)

Results (3)

Discussion/conclusion

• The same and still different• Why? Leading partners, basic structure• International cooperation: learn from each other, increasing

similarities and quality

Future plans

• Goal of the project is to contribute to long lasting open innovation in this sector

• Expertise on how living labs can be applied in health care

• Provide solutions for the current and upcoming problems in the dementia care

http://www.innovatedementia.eu/en

INNOVATE DEMENTIA (not only an ID)