The world of healthcare is constantly evolving, ever increasing in complexity, costs, and stakeholders, and presenting huge challenges to policy making, decision making and system design. In Design for Care, we'll show how service and information designers can work with practice professionals and patients/advocates to make a positive difference in healthcare.
Design for Care presents an overview of the design issues facing healthcare and shows how designers can work with practice professionals, patients, caregivers, and other stakeholders to make a positive difference.
Through colorful analogies, stories from families and top doctors, and the author’s quest to find out what happened to her own father, Design to Survive serves up key strategies for patients, families and providers, with the conviction ...
Improving Care for All Generations Scott Goodwin ... Design thinking in health care. Preventing Chronic Disease: Public Health Research, Practice, ... Bringing User Experience to Healthcare Improvement. New York: Radcliffe Publishing.
Good design can have a hugely positive impact in terms of the recovery of patients and their hospital experience as a whole. Good design can also contribute to productivity and quality of the work experience for the staff.
Combining different areas of enquiry, from human geography, sociology and performance to gerontology, architecture and disability studies, the book takes the reader through recent debates on care across the human and social sciences, ...
As such, Cohen, March, and Olsen (1972) relate that specific decisions (i.e., choices) do not follow an orderly process from problem to solution, but are outcomes of several relatively independent streams of ...
Designing for Alzheimer's Disease offers a complete blueprint for effective design development and implementation, with the full benefit of Elizabeth Brawley's extensive professional background in design for aging environments and her own ...
This book presents the specialized area of person-centered health care design, which focuses on a person's design needs because of one or more health conditions and requires foundational knowledge pertaining to infection control, bio ...
Design Sprint A design sprint is a series of work sessions addressing a specific problem during a compact time period , typically three to five days . Popularized by designers and engineers at Google , the sprint method has been adopted ...
The Better Alternative to Institutional Assisted Living and Memory Care Christian Potra, Stephen Morris, MD, ... you reviewed the state requirements for both property conversion and care of residents, learning that this is a highly ...