Design for Dementia, Mental Health and Wellbeing: Co-Design, Interventions and Policy
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Contributors
Abstract
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 codesign, 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.
Details
| Original language | English |
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| Publisher | Routledge, London |
| Number of pages | 374 |
| Edition | 1 |
| ISBN (electronic) | 9781003318262 |
| ISBN (print) | 9781032331171 |
| Publication status | Published - 2024 |
| Peer-reviewed | Yes |
External IDs
| ORCID | /0000-0001-7803-1091/work/175220916 |
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| Mendeley | fa430829-9655-353a-857b-23caa4d3e28d |