This document discusses co-designing nursing homes of the future with seniors. It outlines three types of Dutch nursing home models and describes innovations in nursing home design, including removing reception desks and improving hospitality. The document emphasizes co-designing with seniors, such as in design classes, to understand what residents want and need. It discusses creating communities in former aged-care facilities and using low-tech solutions for accessibility. The primary focus is on creating a sense of home for residents through personal possessions, decorations, and autonomy. Examples are provided of interactive design projects co-created with seniors.

1. The nursing home of the future:
co-design with seniors
Joost van Hoof
AIGNA, Waterford - Ireland, 18
May 2017

2. The Dutch ambitions: the three homes
1. High-end rehabilitation: ‘return home sooner’
2. Community care: ‘continue living at home’
3. Intensive nursing home care: ‘like home’

3. Thinking about new ways to
design nursing homes
The end of the traditional reception desk.
Improved hospitality

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Innovations and housing
What do residents want themselves?
And what about people with dementia?
van Hoof, Sprong, Marston, Janssen (2015) IJIRST

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Primary focus:
what does it look like?

6. Examples of Dutch nursing homes

7. Designing ?
Together with seniors in class !

8. Designing ?
Together with seniors in class !

9. Designing ?
Together with seniors in class !

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Senior politicians too
(Mark Rutte, prime minister of The Netherlands)

11. Practising
e-health with
seniors

12. Working together on creating new communities
Also in former aged-care facilities

13. Cocreation and codesign
Low-tech solutions for accessibility

14. New ways to open
doors

15. Interactive water pump

17. Interaction with seniors in Living Labs

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Exercising with AIBO

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Exercising with AIBO

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Gaming

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Competition

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Apart from doing a project, student interact with older
people. Making flower arrangements for Easter

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Incubator for ideas

24. Digital shopping with Ahold

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26. Living labs also allows us
to design with care professionals

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Research: People don‘t ask for housing or
technology, but for a sense of home!
Duyvendak (2009): ‘haven’ & ‘heaven’
Van Steenwinkel et al. (2012): autonomy & security
van Dijck-Heinen et al. (2014) The environmental design of residential care facilities: A sense of
home through the eyes of nursing home residents. Int J Inn Res Science Technol 1(4): 57-69

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• Personal possessions can contribute to a sense of home
• Due to limited autonomy, not all residents can decorate
their rooms according to their personal preferences
• N=27 nursing home residents
• Objects most treasured and most missed
• Pictures, paintings, pieces of furniture are objects with
largest sentimental value
• The larger a room, the more flexibility to decorate and
bring personal stuff
• Insufficient information when moving about what to bring
• Which object is valued most?
J. van Hoof, et al. (2015) The importance of personal possessions for the development of a sense of
home of nursing home residents. Journal of Housing for the Elderly

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30. “Structured review of the sense of home”

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32. “Results: themes constituting the sense of home”
BMC Geriatrics 2016

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Living Lab Vonderhof

35. Test living, research, design

37. “Living Lab”
Sense of Home

38. Komende twee jaar
• 1. The apartment as a place for education
• 2. The apartment as a place for testing and development
• 3. The apartment as a source of inspiration

39. At home… everywhere