Department 3 – Care & Participation
The “Care and Participation” department examines the requirements and potential for digitalisation in domestic support and nursing care from a population and system-related perspective.
The focus is on promoting health in old age, preventing the need for care, processes in ambulatory care, and boosting resources and resilience for caregivers within the family and professional carers using digital support.
Taking into account the respective socio-spatial structures and processes (e.g. within neighbourhoods, care communities, care and health-related and social institutions), we examine the success factors for socio-technical innovations in the context of domestic care for older people.
This includes digital support for the creation of a socio-spatial ecosystem, which is also dependent on the coordinated cooperation of professional agents in order to help relieve the burden on the domestic care environment.
The department is examining socially relevant change processes due to digitalisation from a holistic perspective, simultaneously actively shaping the corresponding processes.
To this end, it conceptualises, supports and evaluates the establishment and (participatory) development or adaptation of socio-technical innovations and their integration into local structures in the context of ageing and care where digital instruments can contribute to information, communication, networking and care management.
Services provided by the department
- Digitalisation in (professional) care provision structures and processes
- Resource orientation (health promotion) with regard to digitalisation in old age
- Involvement through participation and co-creation in designing high-quality and user-centred care
- Application-oriented transformation research taking into account the interdependencies between digitalisation and society
- Application and (further) development of theories, concepts and methods of innovation, care and technology research
