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Quality of Life in Healthcare

  • HEALTHY BEHAVIOUR
  • THE HUMAN TOUCH
  • KEY ENABLING METHODOLOGY
  • TALK

End of Life Lab
By: Marieke Sonneveld

Caring for people in the last stage of life is a multi-faceted process, addressing their physical, social, emotional and spiritual well-being. Quality of dying is thereby quality of life in its last stage. Quality of life may sometimes require interventions that create a tension field with our (societal) value to ensure length of life when we can. Design for the end of life faces this and other dilemmas. During this encounter we will explore how designers can position themselves and face these dilemmas in designing for End of Life.

Active Assistive Devices
By: Henk Janssen

The need of power assist products emerges frequently at work environments that require a high amount of physical workload. Examples of these environments could be healthcare or situations in which the person itself is physically limited (revalidation). Electric supportive trolleys, hoists or wheelchairs are examples of products that have proven to be successful in addressing this need. They are some examples of the products showcased in the portfolio of Indes, and are being developed in close collaboration with several Universities and knowledge institutes.

Fieldlab UPPS Health & Sense of Home
By: Lotte Oudeweernink

The goal of the Fieldlab Sense of Home is to initiate and support projects for developing ultra-personalized products and services (UPPS) that help to make the nursing home feel more like home. Co-creation between SME’s, the aging population and healthcare professionals is key to this.

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Marieke Sonneveld

Marieke Sonneveld is assistant professor in Human Factors in Design at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering of Delft University of Technology. She is the coordinator of the Delft Design for End-of-Life lab, exploring how Design can contribute to the quality of life in its final stage, with the starting point that end-of-life care “is not about adding days to your life but about adding life to your days.

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Henk Janssen

Henk Janssen is CEO, entrepreneur & founder of Indes. Indes creates innovative products for people. Products that people rely on. Successful products, because they genuinely improve the everyday life of your customers. That demands not only creativity, but also technology that is geared towards your market. These are the qualities that make Indes so strong.

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Lotte Oude Weernink

Lotte Oude Weernink has a background in industrial design and currently works as a researcher and lecturer at Fontys. She is involved in different projects concerning aging in place and assistive technologies for the nursing home. Her areas of expertise include co-creation, participatory design and concept development.