Design for Dementia, Mental Health and Wellbeing by Niedderer, Kristina; Ludden, Geke; Dening, Tom;

Short description:

This edited volume reflects on how design can contribute to people’s wellbeing and mental health in the context of dementia, mental illness and neurodiversity. It is an important resource for designers, researchers, students, policy providers and health and care professionals. 

Long description:

This edited volume offers the first overview and reflective discussion of how design can contribute to people’s wellbeing and mental health in the context of dementia, mental illness and neurodiversity. 

This book explores and promotes holistic, salutogenic and preventive strategies that recognise and respond to people’s needs, wants, wishes and rights to further health, wellbeing and equality. Bringing together years of experience as designers and clinicians, the contributors to the book emphasise how design can be a collaborative, creative process as well as an outcome of this process, and they reveal how this is guided by mental health and design policy. Through its three parts, the book explores themes of ethics, citizenship and power relationships in co-design, providing an overview of current developments and approaches in co-design; of the culturally and value sensitive adaptation of design interventions and their applications, many of which are a result of co-design; and of policy and related standards in and for design and mental health. In this way, the book demonstrates how design can help to support people, their care partners and care professionals in promoting mental health and wellbeing, and it offers a rich resource on how to create a sustainable future for care in this domain. 

The book provides a unique and holistic overview and resource for designers, researchers, students, policy providers and health and care professionals to help support the development and adoption of person-centred design processes and interventions.

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction: designing for wellbeing in the context of dementia, mental illness and neurodiversity  Part 1: Co-designing for wellbeing  2. A moral compass for co-creation challenges involving experts by experience in research and innovation projects in mental health and wellbeing in later life   3. Co-design for sustainable youth mental health in Australia  4. Spaces of co-design in mental health, neurology and neuroscience  5. Co-design of eHealth in the context of severe mental illness  6. Guidelines for facilitation: articulating tacit knowledge on co-designing within mental health  7. Psychosocial design and engagement at The Big Anxiety festivals  8. Designing community arts engagement for people with dementia and their informal care partners  Part 2: Design interventions  9. Designing for dementia: examining design-led approaches and innovations  10. Reducing anxiety with a HUG  11. DCare: empowering dementia caregivers in Indian families in informal care settings  12. The adaptation of the dementia village model: comparing design features of a Dutch and Canadian dementia village  13. Evaluation of technologies and products for psychosocial intervention and support for and with people living with dementia  14. Identifying and categorising mindfulness-based design interventions to support people with dementia and their wellbeing  15. Mindful design for designers: the dimensions of socio-cognitive mindfulness and correlating the Mindful Design Evaluation Scale and visual cards for expert use  16.  Compassionate technology, value-based design for (e-)mental health  17. We want to play too: co-design of a public intergenerational play space and service for improved mental health for older adults in the Australian Capital Territory  Part 3: Policy and design  18. Designing and influencing mental health policy: bringing evidence and experience to decision-making  19. How can policymakers design for mental health and wellbeing?  20. Developing culturally appropriate dementia interventions for people from culturally diverse backgrounds  21. Design principles and guidelines for inclusive mHealth design for people living with dementia  22. Flexibility and customisation: starting from ASD to design sensory healthcare environments for people's wellbeing  23. Sensory-friendly LED lighting for healthcare environments: co-producing design regulations to meet autistic needs  24. Conclusion: designing for a better life