This chapter outlines the co-design process for the 'Let's meet up!' electronic system created to facilitate and maintain social engagement for people living with dementia. The system was developed by a multi-disciplinary team of researchers and people living with dementia using coproduction methods. 'Let's meet up!' was created as part of the European MinD project 'Designing for people with Dementia'. It is a hybrid board and electronic system that allows people with dementia to stay in touch with their loved ones and to remain physically active by arranging joint activities through a simple, user-friendly tangible interface.Co-design was used throughout the research and development process of -data collection, design idea development, decision making, design concept, and prototype development phases, to ensure the relevance and appropriateness of those ideas, concepts and prototypes for people with dementia. Within this process, co-production was increasingly used to enable groups of experts with experience (GEE) to co-host and co-curate the co-design sessions, and to take ownership of the process, which then allowed for instances of co-creation.The chapter explains the integrated process of research and GEE activity evident within the design development through co-design and co-production, and draws out recommendations for this symbiotic way of working giving both its benefits and limitations.
In a personal narrative of maternal love and loss, trauma and strength, the author in her sixties makes an inward journey to touch the untold depths of love and pain that run through her as a constant stream.
… I permit myself now to live in the house of the mothers and I call it mine. I think increasingly about all of our lives, about their deaths, about time passing and my own death ahead of me … I find myself both war correspondent and war casualty, and surely war criminal also … I do not fear death. It is legacy from my mothers, that death in itself brings only release. It is living that hurts …
With insight comes compassion and reconciliation for the author, the women and the wounds. The loving strength of mothers and daughters overcomes the pain they inflict on one another. Scars remain but they are intelligent and wise. Is healing rooted within this understanding?
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