Designing Homes for Healthy Cognitive Ageing: Co-Production for Impact and Scale (DesHCA)

随着年龄的增长，我们中的许多人会经历认知变化，对我们中的一些人来说，这些变化将发展为痴呆症。我们知道，人们的家庭可能会使认知变化的经历变得更加困难，或者可以使人继续融入社会，获得自我价值感和自尊。DesHCA将与经历老龄化和认知变化的人以及设计和开发住房的人合作。我们将确定能够通过认知变化支持更好地生活更长时间的住房创新。我们对健康认知老龄化的重视超出了狭隘的“痴呆症友好型设计”的概念，而是一种更广泛和更包容的住房创新方法。多学科DesHCA团队涉及住房供应的所有领域的利益相关者，包括经历老龄化和认知变化的人、建筑师和设计师、住房专家、规划师、建筑商和住房提供者。老年人是DesHCA不可或缺的一部分，他们的健康是其核心。该项目将设计和建造虚拟和真实的设计，作为支持健康认知老龄化的创新的示范和试验台。这些设计将从利益相关者的角度进行评估，然后在更大的范围内进行考虑，以检查它们在现实世界中的可行性。DesHCA有一个独特的机会，可以直接进入英国和苏格兰政府城市区域，为苏格兰中部(斯特灵和克拉克曼南郡)的交易提供资金，为当地的住房开发提供基础。这项工作的重点是可持续、终身健康、社区和经济发展，解决贫困和不平等问题。为了实现这些目标，DesHCA采取联合制作的方式，整个团队努力寻找与他们的现实世界经验和抱负相结合的创新。我们将使用令人兴奋和涉及的方式收集数据，这些数据将被用来为示范房屋的设计提供信息。这些设计将随着利益相关者与它们的互动并从他们的不同角度提供反馈而发展。为了收集数据，我们将要求老年人绘制和评估他们自己的家，并使用虚拟现实(VR)体验和评论新的设计功能。然后，他们将在VR研讨会上与建筑商、建筑师和住房提供商合作，寻找实用、现实和负担得起的设计，以支持健康的认知衰老，从而延长健康、独立的生命。然后，合作伙伴将聚集在互动研讨会上，将设计转化为虚拟城镇内的规划，建造和翻新房屋，创造服务和管理预算。我们将演示设计如何在现实世界中发挥作用，以及如何将涉及的各种利益结合在一起。在整个过程中，我们将考虑成本问题，为业务规划提供信息，并帮助就新设计的实施做出决定。DesHCA的影响将通过展示哪些因素在住宅设计中对健康认知老龄化起作用来实现。DesHCA将立即加入伦敦金融城地区的交易，从长远来看，我们将为未来的开发商提供工具，为他们关于健康认知老龄化住房的决定提供信息。在整个项目中，我们将通过利益相关者网络向住房、建筑和建筑部门传播调查结果。我们将发表严谨的研究成果，为创新提供一个同行评议的高质量研究基地。因此，我们将超越建议和指导，提供证据支持大规模交付，基于联合制作方法，该方法利用驱动不同利益相关者的真实经验、兴趣和迫切需要。DesHCA的多学科团队将在研究领导力方面的早期职业研究人员中培养能力，跨建筑和规划、经济学、社会学等学科，并与一系列不同的行业和专业利益相关者合作，如住房工人、规划师和建筑公司。

As we age, many of us will experience cognitive changes, and for some of us, these will develop into dementia. We know that people's homes can make the experience of cognitive changes more difficult, or can enable continuing inclusion and sense of self-worth and self-esteem. DesHCA will work with people experiencing ageing and cognitive change and those who design and develop housing. We will identify housing innovations that can support living better for longer with cognitive change. Our emphasis on healthy cognitive ageing goes beyond narrow conceptions of 'dementia-friendly design' into a more expansive and inclusive approach to housing innovation.The multidisciplinary DesHCA team involves stakeholders from all areas of housing provision, including people experiencing ageing and cognitive change, architects and designers, housing experts, planners, builders and housing providers. Older people are integral to DesHCA and their health is at its heart. The project will design and build virtual and real designs that will act as demonstrators and test-beds for innovations to support healthy cognitive ageing. These designs will be evaluated from stakeholder points of view, then considered at a larger scale to examine their real-world feasibility. DesHCA has a unique opportunity to feed directly into the UK and Scottish Government City Region Deal for Central Scotland (Stirling and Clackmannanshire), providing groundwork for local housing developments. The focus of this is sustainable, lifetime health, community and economic development, addressing deprivation and inequality.To achieve these aims, DesHCA takes a co-production approach, with the whole team working to identify innovations that engage with their real-world experiences and aspirations. We will use exciting and involving ways to collect data which will be used to inform the design of the demonstrator houses. These designs will evolve as stakeholders interact with them and provide feedback from their different points of view. To collect data, we will ask older people to map and evaluate their own homes and to experience and comment on new design features using virtual reality (VR). They will then collaborate with builders, architects and housing providers in VR workshops to identify practical, realistic and affordable designs that can support healthy cognitive ageing, and therefore longer healthy, independent life. Partners will then come together in interactive workshops to convert designs into plans within a fictional town, building and retrofitting homes, creating services and managing budgets. We will demonstrate how designs can work out in the real world, and how to bring together the various interests involved. Throughout, we will consider issues of costs, to inform business planning and help make decisions on implementation of the new designs.The impact of DesHCA will be achieved through showing what works in housing design for healthy cognitive ageing. Immediately, DesHCA will feed into the City Region Deal and longer term we will provide tools for future developers to inform their decisions about housing for healthy cognitive ageing. Throughout the project, we will disseminate findings to the housing, architecture and building sectors through stakeholder networks. We will publish rigorous research findings to provide a peer reviewed, high quality research base for innovation. Thus we will go beyond recommendations and guidance to provide evidence to support delivery at scale, grounded in the co-production approach that draws on the real experience, interests and imperatives that drive different stakeholders.DesHCA's multidisciplinary team will build capacity among early career researchers in research leadership, working across disciplines such as architecture and planning, economics, sociology and across sectors with a range of different industrial and professional stakeholders, such as housing workers, planners and construction companies.