Improving the mealtime experience for elderly
How can we create a meal environment and equal meal experience in nursing homes that improves the general quality of life for elderly people and engage the elderly, relatives and staff in this development?
The challenge is a part of Openlab's Masters Course Challenges for the Emerging City. Read more in full description.
Improving the mealtime experience for elderly
How can we create a meal environment and equal meal experience in nursing homes that improves the general quality of life for elderly people and engage the elderly, relatives and staff in this development?
The challenge is a part of Openlab's Masters Course Challenges for the Emerging City. Read more in full description.
Stureby nursing home opened in 1938 up to date has 197 residents, many of whom live with dementia. The Reality Lab at Stureby nursing home want to innovate the future meal environment for the seniors living at the nursing home.
The challenge is to create a meal environment and equal meal experience in nursing homes that improves the general quality of life for elderly people and engage the elderly, relatives and staff in this development?
This challenge is a part of Openlab's Masters Course Challenges for the Emerging City. Students in the course will suggest solutions and present them to the challenge giver. Feel free to participate in the challenge by sharing your ideas or give feedback to the students' solutions.
Openlab
The Dinner Dome
The Dinner Dome is an immersive and original space built for social events, such as mealtimes,
created to jointly experience a stimulating scenography and / or choreography.
The idea is to create a space shaped like a dome - building on the concept of a dome shaped Imax theater that triggers memories, increases appetite and creates stronger social bonds among its users.
The domain answers to our challenge and goal of cultural inclusion by giving the elderly, the staff and relatives the opportunity to create and share their own shared in-house culture.
With its extensive library of sets, sound- and scenic effects, you can enter the Italian restaurant on a piazza in Rome, a picnic in a park during a Swedish summer night, a Caribbean boat cruise, or invoke childhood memories. This mix of virtual reality technology, the latest sound system and a click machine can bring its audience and participants to any place in time and space.
Niko
Empower diversity of meals, order in groups
It's interesting to note that there is potential to improve the choice in meals in hospital/care surroundings. These locations can have a lot of residents, who need food. It's a great opportunity because the cultural diversity of the residents is often not represented in the food offer.
On the other hand, there are numerous suppliers who would like the business : local restaurants, caterers, home cooks (Gastronaut-style) etc.
Our suggestion is to list the possibilities offered by local suppliers that are "referenced" by the facility, in order to enable the residents to order food that will be delivered.
There are numerous possibilities, by engaging partnerships with local restaurants, caterers or home cooks.
The solution that we could suggest is for Södersjukhuset to identify a small number of suppliers; list the offers on pool.farm (collaborative orders); and, using pool.farm, organise group orders delivered at pre-agreed times.
This can also be the basis for other services such as daily or weekly orders from shops or maybe a farm.
Please be in touch if you want to elaborate!
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