Marie Curie / Sheffield Hallam University

Creative research and user-centred design process to understand what is meaningful to different communities when it comes to end of life care.

‘Difficult conversations’ often need a scaffold. This project used object elicitation in Café style workshops, helping members of the public to think about and express what was meaningful to them in life, care and what they might want in the future. Objects, photographs and activities were carefully curated to engage different senses and significant conversations happened as a result.

The Life Café was developed as a research method for this aim but subsequently became a kit for communities to help promote and support meaningful conversations.

www.lifecafe.org.uk

Sheffield Hallam University / NHS Scotland / Alzheimer Scotland

This programme was developed in partnership with people with dementia who spoke of the value they attached to continued participation in everyday occupations and in new learning. Throughout all the co-creation activities, people with dementia were clear they wanted to have the opportunity to access groups that did not just talk about the diagnosis but that offered practical advice and support of how to continue to live well with the condition.

The outputs of this work include; a group programme and all associated materials, a website of digital resources, postal packs for people with dementia and project website www.jtd.org.uk

The broader research enquiry led by Professor Claire Craig spans a period of 14 years, from the utilisation of participatory design research methods to co-create interventions with people living with dementia through to work with policy makers to develop tools for operationalisation.

Helen Fisher / Professor Claire Craig

Beautiful, thoughtful, evidence-based products for people with dementia, older generations and families and supporters. Here you’ll find the outputs of multiple projects. Each product is backed by research and has been developed with people affected by dementia to make sure that they are designed with meaning, purpose and care.

For many years Claire and Helen have worked together on research and design projects that explore ways to enable people with dementia to express what matters and learn ways to maintain independence and communication with their loved ones. Research undertaken at Lab4Living, Sheffield Hallam University, has informed some of the products you see on this website. Our work has also been trialled and supported by Alzheimer Scotland and Sheffcare as well as many other communities and individuals along the way.

www.designedwithcare.co.uk