The document discusses how Vilans, an organization focused on long-term care in the Netherlands, can help care organizations prepare for future technological possibilities. It proposes using design fiction, which creates speculative scenarios through designed artifacts, to depict how everyday care tasks may incorporate emerging technologies by 2022. Vilans hosted a future exposition applying this approach and has since held conferences and meetings at care facilities to generate discussions about the implications of new technologies in care.

3. PREPARE CARE FOR THE FUTURE
Sandra Suijkerbuijk & Lotte Cornelisse | Vilans

4. ir. Sandra Suijkerbuijk
s.suijkerbuijk@vilans.nl
ir. Lotte Cornelisse
l.cornelisse@vilans.nl

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Our mission
In co-creation with the field of long-term care, we develop, disseminate and
implement innovative and applied knowledge.
To ensure efficient, cost-effective and high quality long-term care to
enhance the quality of life of people who need care and support.
 Independent
 Co-creation
 Knowledge
 Hybrid financing
 Not for profit
Vilans

6. Caring for Care
Research & Innovation Marketing & Communication Advice & Implementation
Teams/Themes, e.g., Personalized Healthcare, Integrated Care, Community Care, Quality, Online Learning, eHealth…

7. Vilans eHealth team
Explore
Try-out
Impact
analysis
Scale-up Up-to-date

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In The Netherlands

9. How can we support care organizations to be prepared for
the technological possibilities in the (near) future?

10. The busy care professional…

11. A design practice aiming at exploring and criticizing possible
futures by creating speculative, and often provocative, scenarios
narrated through designed artifacts.
Design fiction
Dunne, A., & Raby, F. (2013). Speculative everything: design, fiction, and social dreaming. MIT press.

12. Future exposition: technological trends translated to
everyday care tasks
Design fiction

13. Several conferences
and meetings at
care organizations

14. Where can I order these
stockings??
I cannot imagine that this will be
reality in 2022 already. You are
joking, right?
It is so important to keep the human contact
with our clients. They should not get
lonesome because of all the technology…
Hmmm… that makes the introduction of
the new client portal today
way less scary.

15. Come and take a closer look!

16. www.vilans.nl/ehealth
www.vilans.org
Let’s connect!
Sandra Suijkerbuijk
s.suijkerbuijk@vilans.nl
Lotte Cornelisse
l.cornelisse@vilans.nl