Health-Lab, a program in the metropolitan region Amsterdam, has the ambition to create and stimulate solutions for the care of tomorrow. This program focuses on increasing the efficiency in care as well as on allowing people to be independent longer. This should be done with the help of technology but not limited to technology. In Health-lab people from care institutions, research and companies work together with the end-users to co-create solutions. Because care is as personal as you can get, involvement of the real users is fundamental. Health-lab has set up several ‘Living Labs’ locations where real users test applications in their daily life and help designers and developers to improve their products. In this case the users are the elderly but also the professionals and informal care givers.

1. Health-Lab A living lab approachforcreating the care of tomorrow Miriam Reitenbach Waag Society 14 September 2011

2. Waag Society

3. “Stimulating care innovationswith a strong focus on ‘real’ users”. Health-Lab

4. Living Lab “de Keyzer”

5. Sharingknowledge

6. Co-creation

7. Real-life context

8. Users as Designers

9. Questions?