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HEDoctoral network2022–2026

HOMEDEM · Co-designing a Home with Dementia

Horizon Europe — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2022-10-01 → 2026-09-30
EU contribution
€2,122,747
Participants
27
Scheme
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-DN

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Results in brief

Co-designing a Home with Dementia

The HOMEDEM project is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Innovative Training Network dedicated to training eight early-stage researchers in design and dementia caregiving. The project aims to address the growing need for home-based care for people with dementia (PwD) across Europe. Informal caregivers, often family members or friends, play a crucial role in supporting PwD at home. They provide a range of care, from emotional support to complex medical tasks. HOMEDEM focuses on understanding and addressing the challenges faced by PwD and their informal caregivers at multiple levels: • Micro-level: Examining the impact of dementia on relationships between PwD and their caregivers, and developing strategies to strengthen these bonds. • Meso-level: Exploring the evolving needs of home living environments and developing interventions to support PwD and their caregivers. • Macro-level: Analyzing care ecosystems and identifying opportunities for innovative, personalized, and sustainable care models. By equipping researchers with interdisciplinary skills, HOMEDEM aims to develop innovative solutions that improve the quality of life for PwD and their caregivers. The project seeks to influence the design and implementation of community-based care services, products, and tools that are tailored to the specific needs of individuals with dementia.

Data: CORDIS, © European Union

Project objective

The Doctoral Network “Co-designing a Home with Dementia” (HOMEDEM) is a Marie-Skłodowska-Curie Actions' Innovative Training Network that will provide high-level training in design and dementia caregiving, to high achieving, early-stage researchers. HOMEDEM focuses on the recent move across Europe towards supporting people with dementia (PwD) living at home (if that is their desire) for as long as possible with appropriate care. This move towards a reliance on care constellations (the dynamic informal care relationships with and around the person with dementia) calls for the Training Network to carry out research at several levels: the micro level, how dementia affects relationships between PwD and their care constellations; the meso, understanding the changing needs of the home living environment and at the macro level, understanding how care constellations navigate the complex care ecosystem of community-based support and services. By equipping doctoral candidates with the transferable skills required for succeeding in careers at the crossroads of design and disciplines like psychosocial health sciences, economics and policy evaluation, the training in HOMEDEM will enable these researchers to respond to current and future care contexts and will result in their being able to influence the way community-based care for PwD and their care constellation is organised, and how products, services and tools are co-designed and implemented within care contexts across Europe. Achieved by a unique combination of collaborative and practical research training, non-academic industry-based secondments, and through schools and seminars that cover transferable interpersonal, communication, cognitive and entrepreneurial skills facilitated by the selected composition of academic and non-academic consortium members, the result will be a new infrastructure of care that draws on the fusion of care and design leading to emerging models of care for PwD and their care constellation.

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

  • LUCA SCHOOL OF ARTS · Bruxelles / BrusselCoordinatorBelgium
  • ALZHEIMER EUROPE · SENNINGERBERGLuxembourg
  • ASSOCIACAO FRAUNHOFER PORTUGAL RESEARCH · PortoPortugal
  • Archipel · EindhovenNetherlands
  • CAS050+ CENTRO DE ATENDIMENTO E SERVICOS 050+, ASSOCIACAO · PortoPortugal
  • EUROCARERS-ASSOCIATION EUROPEENNE TRAVAILLANT AVEC ET POUR LES AIDANTS NON-PROFESSIONNELS · Bruxelles / BrusselBelgium
  • Equa Cooperativa Sociale · MilanoCity levelItaly
  • GENERA · MilanoItaly
  • Huis Perrekes vzw · GeelBelgium
  • KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET · STOCKHOLMSweden
  • KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN · LeuvenBelgium
  • Landsbond der Christelijke Mutualiteiten · Bruxelles / BrusselBelgium
  • Noon Care S.r.l. · MilanoItaly
  • PANTON BV · DeventerNetherlands
  • PANTOPICON BVBA · BERCHEM ANTWERPENBelgium
  • POLITECNICO DI MILANO · MilanoItaly
  • REGION VARMLAND · KarlstadSweden
  • TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN · EindhovenNetherlands
  • THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE LBG · DublinIreland
  • THE PROVOST, FELLOWS, FOUNDATION SCHOLARS & THE OTHER MEMBERS OF BOARD, OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY & UNDIVIDED TRINITY OF QUEEN ELIZABETH NEAR DUBLIN · DublinIreland
  • Tover B.V. · UtrechtNetherlands
  • UNIVERSIDADE DE AVEIRO · AveiroPortugal
  • UNIVERSIDADE DO PORTO · PortoPortugal
  • UNIVERSITEIT MAASTRICHT · MaastrichtNetherlands
  • UNIVERSITY OF GALWAY · GalwayIreland
  • UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND, BRISTOL · BRISTOLUnited Kingdom
  • WOONZORGNET-DIJLELAND · LeuvenBelgium

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Data: CORDIS, © European Union