Reimagining Dementia Care: A 'person-centered' approach.
This powerful New Yorker article describes how one dementia facility transformed itself and its services by challenging ALL assumptions.
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This powerful New Yorker article describes how one dementia facility transformed itself and its services by challenging ALL assumptions.
Parents routinely say “I can’t draw. etc.” We give adults positive creative experiences. Facilitators inspire with creative projects (art, poetry, welding…) Adults share (anonymously/virtually) with a small community for support/encouragement.
This article from 2010 (Newsweek / Daily Beast) explains why’s and how’s behind the decline in creativity, and examples of schools and individuals who are turning this trend around.
HipTrips - A tourism program built by youth for youth. Travelers and locals will jump at the opportunity to explore and learn with guides who are their peers!
Parents routinely say “I can’t draw. etc.” We give adults positive creative experiences. Facilitators inspire with creative projects (art, poetry, welding…) Adults share (anonymously/virtually) with a small community for support/encouragement.
High Schools in the U.S. create workers, not creators. This project envisions a change project for schools that will establish a culture-of-creativity environment while enabling the resetting of attitudes and behaviors towards the creative.
An online hub of curated & user generated tools, stories & conversations for parents, young people & teachers, to inspire us all to unleash our creative potential. Hosted & curated by the community. Offline + online. Demo website live
We can connect our ideas!
Let's inspire creative confidence in young people and also learn from them in a YOUNG people's OpenIDEO. OpenIDEO for YOUNG people allows young people to take charge of building their own creative confidence, better, together.*(Toolkit Doodle Notes)
An app to help people of all ages reduce unnecessary spending and clutter, in favor of saving money for goals that truly matter to them.
Caregivers are sometimes thrown into this new role and there are many new & important information that they have to quickly learn to make decisions for others. By creating a wellness toolkit, it provides essential tools and items to take care of
Came to the meetup to brainstorm during the refinement phase.
Physical spaces within Senior or Community Centers, Assisted Living Facilities, etc. where retired/aging/mature individuals can participate in a structured, facilitated design-thinking process to design solutions to aging-related issues /challenges.
Initially the idea was a way for children to "adopt" a grandparent and create a new type of family. Now instead of creating a new Family Tree, the goal is to create a Knowledge Tree! Authentic relationships based on common interests or activities.
Children's drawings from around the world are archived and analyzed over time as honest, transparent, and potent precursors to large scale violence.
Introduce Peace Intelligence (PI) as a parallel to Business Intelligence (BI), leveraging the best BI software, algorithms, and teams to integrate current data and present in real time in visualized dashboards building a self-sustaining PI cycle.
It was great to brainstorm with you the other day Sylvia. I look forward to some reflective collaborating now that I've started to learn more about OPENideo!
Self-selecting groups of employees engage in fun & games with a specific healthy goal. Online tracking platform/app, pop-up challenges, text messages, bonus points... and a few surprises, keep everyone motivated and on track. Everyone wins!
Crowdsource "audio books" in a library for enhanced reality! Volunteers upload their stories/soundscapes. Geo-tag the starting point of each story to GPS-coordinates. Listeners download the Mp3 at home, travel to the starting point and press play!
External/internal teams assembled for the purpose of identifying a Company’s unique ‘world benefit’ tactics/strategies. Teams are then split up and re-configured / re-assembled with other companies, and so on, to keep ‘changing it forward.’
Sylvia commented on Designing-Our-Future Participatory Pods embedded within the mature community (eg. ElderIDEO) UPDATED