SALTC- simulating Ageing and Long term Conditions.

SALTC是一项社会技术研究活动，致力于扭转长期护理的概念，并使用反向假设思维，从另一端回顾病情的最后阶段。通过使用身临其境的体验，个人被展示了这些情况的典型情感和经济影响，加上对亲属、亲人等的影响，以及为个人规划生活后期阶段提供支持的经济影响。这个项目寻求量化最常见的长期条件，并希望对每种条件的不同恶化阶段进行资格鉴定，将它们添加到“验收协议”中。一旦确定了这一议定书，该项目的目标是使其在互联网上可供感兴趣的各方根据他们的个人经验来制定该议定书，从而允许公众在考虑具体情况时，告知该项目关于个人接受的“引爆点”在哪里，需要外部帮助。该项目挑战政策和实践的现状，希望找到一种可供个人使用的方案，以增加细节和接受门槛，帮助他们了解长期条件可能对他们产生的影响。通过这种方式，可以确定长期患病、可能需要援助或不再认为生活质量值得继续下去的人的界限和触发点。这项研究项目的最后一个方面着眼于英国的社会经济影响，利用既定议定书的调查结果，在痛苦和公众认为在孤独生活的背景下可以接受的情况下，以及他们需要支持的情况下划清界限。它将看看如何提前计划这方面的支持，以及这样一种身临其境的体验带来的保真度是否会增强生前遗嘱的保真度。

"SALTC is a socio-technological research activity concerned with reversing the concept of Long Term Care, and using Reverse Assumption Thinking, looking from the other end, that of the final stages of the condition backwards. By using an immersive experience, the individual is illustrated the typical emotional and financial impacts of these conditions, coupled with the effect on relatives, loved ones etc. as well as the financial impact of providing support for individuals planning for the later stages of their lives. This project seeks to quantify the most common Long Term Conditions and looks to qualify different deterioration stages for each condition, adding them into a "protocol of acceptance". Once this protocol is defined, the project aims to make it available on the internet for interested parties to shape the protocol with their personal experience, thus allowing the public to inform the project of where the "flash points" of personal acceptance are, with regards the need for external help, when looking at specific conditions. Challenging the status quo with regards to both policy and practice, the project looks to find a protocol that might be used by a person to add detail and acceptance thresholds to their understanding of the effects that long term condition may have on them. In such a manner, it might be possible to ascertain the boundaries and trigger points to when people suffering from a Long Term Condition, may require assistance, or may no longer consider that the quality of life is worth continuing with. The final aspect of this research project looks at the socio-economic impact for the UK, using the established protocol's findings to draw a line in the sand regarding suffering and what the public deems acceptable in the context of lone living, and when they need support. It looks to see how support in this context can be planned for in advance and if Living Will's may be augmented by the fidelity that such an immersive experience brings."