Design Future-ready and Sustainable Nursing Homes with Person-Centric Care Model

Objective

​In the last 1-2 decades, there has been a core of consensus that person-centered care (PCC) involves vaulting and using people's subjective experience of illness regardless of cognitive ability, and acknowledging that the person should be the focus of care delivery and not the disease or illness. This project aims to characterise the extent of person-centred care in nursing homes and determine its relationship with the quality of life amongst nursing home residents. It further involves a novel, non-linear, transdisciplinary evidence-based approach to the planning and design of nursing homes, based on a person-centeric care model validated by high fidelity, real-world data and participation of neighbourhood communities. This empirically-driven, technologically-advanced and functionality based approach informs an evidence-based design research to create environments that are truly far more 'elder-friendly', 'dementia-friendly' and 'future-ready' than they have ever been - factors contributing to the sustainability of innovative new typologies of nursing homes.

Collaborators

1. NUS

2. NUH

3. CoNEX

4. Ren Ci

5. NUHS

6. Duke-NUS

7. MOH

8. MOHH

9. URA

10. AIC

11. BCA