HOMEDEM focuses on the recent movement in Europe to support people with dementia (MmD) to continue living at home for as long as possible (if that is what they want) with appropriate care.
The shift towards a dependence on dynamic informal care relationships with and around the person with dementia is defined as a “care constellation”. This requires the HOMEDEM Doctoral Training Network to conduct research at different levels: a) the micro level, how dementia affects relationships between the person with dementia and their care constellations; b) the meso level, understanding the changing needs of the home environment; and c) at the macro level, understanding how healthcare constellations navigate the complex healthcare ecosystem of community-based supports and services.
HOMEDEM Objectives
1. Identify, define and understand the gaps in current support services regarding relationships, home environment and the healthcare ecosystem, for the five European countries participating in the Doctoral Network.
2. Developing solutions for the most pressing unmet needs of healthcare constellations with regard to relationships, the home environment and the care ecosystem, together with those involved (co-design).
3. Assessing and influencing, through design, the economic and social value of healthcare constellations and their role in community-based care, resulting in the development of recommendations for improved policy in the sector.
4. Creating ways to integrate autonomy and freedom of choice of people with dementia and their care constellations in planning, home adjustments, design solutions and daily care, by embedding co-design processes in the healthcare ecosystem.
If you have any questions, please contact us at: homedem@luca-arts.be