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Exploring How a Multisensory Media Album Can Support Dementia Care Staff

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Dementia Lab 2021: Supporting Ability Through Design (D-Lab 2021)

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For dementia care staff working in residential facilities, it may be challenging to interact on an interpersonal and multisensory level with residents. The progressive nature of dementia influences a person’s physical and cognitive functioning. Research has shown that offering multisensory interactions for people with dementia can improve their behavior and mood. We are interested in gaining an understanding of how dementia care staff could be supported to engage with people with dementia. To explore this, a multisensory media album was designed to encourage care staff to interact with their residents on an interpersonal and multisensory level. Observations and interviews gave insight into how dementia care staff experienced the design, and how it helped them to interact with a variety of residents. We suggest that future design-researchers explore alternative means of multisensory engagement by utilizing photos, audio fragments, and textiles, as these showed potential to support dementia care staff to connect and communicate with residents.

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the staff at Leigh Place for their cooperation and facilitating this study. This research was supported by STW VIDI grant number 016.128.303 of The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), awarded to Elise van den Hoven.

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  1. Department of Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Ward de Groot, Elise van den Hoven & Berry Eggen

  2. University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, Australia

    Ward de Groot, Gail Kenning & Elise van den Hoven

  3. University of Dundee, Nethergate, Dundee, Scotland, UK

    Elise van den Hoven

  4. Ageing Futures Institute, fEEL (Felt Experience and Empathy Lab), University of New South Wales, Kensington, Australia

    Gail Kenning

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  1. Department of Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Rens Brankaert

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    Caylee Raber

  3. Department of Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

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de Groot, W., Kenning, G., van den Hoven, E., Eggen, B. (2021). Exploring How a Multisensory Media Album Can Support Dementia Care Staff. In: Brankaert, R., Raber, C., Houben, M., Malcolm, P., Hannan, J. (eds) Dementia Lab 2021: Supporting Ability Through Design. D-Lab 2021. Design For Inclusion, vol 2. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70293-9_4

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