HOMEDEM focuses on the recent move across Europe towards supporting people with dementia (PwD) living at home (if that is what they themselves desire to do) for as long as possible with appropriate care. This move towards a reliance on the dynamic informal care relationships with and around the person with dementia, defined as “care constellation”. This calls for the HOMEDEM Doctoral Training Network to carry out research at several levels: a) the micro level, how dementia affects relationships between PwD and their care constellations; b) the meso level, understanding the changing needs of the home living environment; and c) 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 the PhD candidate researchers to respond to current and future care contexts. This will result in their being able to influence the way community-based care for PwD and their care constellation is organized, and how products, services and tools are co-designed and implemented within care contexts across Europe.

 

Project beneficiaries:

LUCA School of Arts (BE) – coordinator
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (BE)
Eindhoven University of Technology (NL)
Maastricht University (NL)
National University Ireland Galway (IE)
Politecnico di Milano (IT)
Universidade de Aveiro (PT)

Research groups

• D4H

Funding institutions

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Duration 48 months

Project code 101072827