1st Edition
Design for Dementia, Mental Health and Wellbeing Co-Design, Interventions and Policy
This edited volume offers the first overview and reflective discussion of how design can contribute to people’s wellbeing and mental health in the context of dementia, mental illness and neurodiversity.
This book explores and promotes holistic, salutogenic and preventive strategies that recognise and respond to people’s needs, wants, wishes and rights to further health, wellbeing and equality. Bringing together years of experience as designers and clinicians, the contributors to the book emphasise how design can be a collaborative, creative process as well as an outcome of this process, and reveal how this is guided by mental health and design policy. Through its three parts, the book explores themes of ethics, citizenship and power relationships in co-design, providing an overview of current developments and approaches in co-design; of the culturally and value sensitive adaptation of design interventions and their applications, many of which are a result of co-design; and of policy and related standards in and for design and mental health. In this way, the book demonstrates how design can help to support people, their care partners and care professionals in promoting mental health and wellbeing, and it offers a rich resource on how to create a sustainable future for care in this domain.
The book provides a unique and holistic overview and resource for designers, researchers, students, policy providers and health and care professionals to help support the development and adoption of person-centred design processes and interventions.
Chapter 1. Introduction: designing for wellbeing in the context of dementia, mental illness and neurodiversity
Kristina Niedderer, Geke Ludden, Tom Dening and Vjera Holthoff-Detto
Part 1: Co-designing for wellbeing
Introduction: co-designing with people with lived experience
Kristina Niedderer, Geke Ludden, Tom Dening and Vjera Holthoff-Detto
Chapter 2. A moral compass for co-creation challenges involving experts by experience in research and innovation projects in mental health and wellbeing in later life
Raquel Losada, Rosa Almeida and Teresa Orihuela
Chapter 3. Co-design for sustainable youth mental health in Australia
Madeline Zabar, Fanke Peng, Aaron Davis, Christopher Kueh and Ian Gwilt
Chapter 4. Spaces of co-design in mental health, neurology and neuroscience
Leigh-Anne Hepburn, Chris L. Smith, Donald McNeill and Jason A. Dibbs
Chapter 5. Co-design of eHealth in the context of severe mental illness
Tessa Dekkers, Nienke Beerlage-de Jong, Stephanie Schouten, Tahnee Heirbaut, Saskia Kelders, Jeroen Deenik and Hanneke Kip
Chapter 6. Guidelines for facilitation: articulating tacit knowledge on co-designing within mental health
Erika Renedo Illarregi
Chapter 7. Psychosocial design and engagement at The Big Anxiety festivals
Gail Kenning and Jill Bennett
Chapter 8. Designing community arts engagement for people with dementia and their informal care partners
Laura Malinin, Jennifer E. Cross, Deana Davalos, Meara Faw, Lindsey Wilhem and Rebecca Lassell
Part 2: Designing Interventions
Introduction: designing interventions to support mental health and wellbeing
Geke Ludden, Kristina Niedderer, Vjera Holthoff-Detto, Tom Dening
Chapter 9. Designing for dementia: examining design-led approaches and innovations
Paul A. Rodgers
Chapter 10. Reducing anxiety with a HUG
Cathy Treadaway
Chapter 11. DCare: empowering dementia caregivers in Indian families in informal care settings
Vivek Kant, Rishi Tak and Manish Asthana
Chapter 12. The adaptation of the dementia village model: comparing design features of a Dutch and Canadian dementia village
Jodi Sturge
Chapter 13. Evaluation of technologies and products for psychosocial intervention and support for and with people living with dementia
Michael P. Craven
Chapter 14. Identifying and categorising mindfulness-based design interventions to support people with dementia and their wellbeing
Kristina Niedderer, Isabelle Tournier, Donna Maria Coleston-Shields and Tom Dening
Chapter 15. Mindful design for designers: the dimensions of socio-cognitive mindfulness and correlating the Mindful Design Evaluation Scale and visual cards for expert use
Michaelle Bosse and Christian Wölfel
Chapter 16. Compassionate technology, value-based design for (e-)mental health
Geke Ludden, Matthijs Noordzij, Benedetta Lusi, Charlotte van Lotringen and Randy Klaassen
Chapter 17. We want to play too: co-design of a public intergenerational play space and service for improved mental health for older adults in the Australian Capital Territory
Jordan Mckibbin, Fanke Peng and Cathy Hope
Part 3: Policy and design
Introduction: designing policy and regulations for better design
Tom Dening, Kristina Niedderer, Geke Ludden and Vjera Holthoff-Detto
Chapter 18. Designing and influencing mental health policy: bringing evidence and experience to decision-making
Andy Bell and Sarah Hughes
Chapter 19. How can policymakers design for mental health and wellbeing?
Camilla Buchanan, Vanessa Lefton and Kate Langham
Chapter 20. Developing culturally appropriate dementia interventions for people from culturally diverse backgrounds
Jennifer N. W. Lim
Chapter 21. Design principles and guidelines for inclusive mHealth design for people living with dementia
Thomas Engelsma, Monique W. M. Jaspers and Linda W. P. Peute
Chapter 22. Flexibility and customisation: starting from ASD to design sensory healthcare environments for people's wellbeing
Elena Bellini and Alessia Macchi
Chapter 23. Sensory-friendly LED lighting for healthcare environments: co-producing design regulations to meet autistic needs
Jill Corbyn, Alexia Gkika and Jane Cannon
Chapter 24. Conclusion: designing for a better life
Kristina Niedderer, Geke Ludden, Tom Dening and Vjera Holthoff-Detto
Biography
Kristina Niedderer is Professor of Design at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.
Geke Ludden is full Professor of Interaction Design at the University of Twente, the Netherlands.
Tom Dening is Professor of Dementia Research in the School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, UK.
Vjera Holthoff-Detto is Professor of Old Age Psychiatry at the Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany.
