CO-DIAC Co-designing integrated residential aged care: development and evaluation of a new working method for healthcare and social services

Overarching goal

The project runs over four years and is interdisciplinary with a co-design approach, designed in collaboration with the Administration for the elderly, nursing and care in the City of Gothenburg.

The project addresses experienced needs among the target groups through the long-term goal of improving the utilisation of resources, and to support meaningful improvements in residential aged care facilities. The co-design approach aims to bridge the gap between research and practice, with the goal to generate both scientific and societal value through contributing to innovation and best practice to meet the complex needs of an ageing population.

Progress

During the spring of 2025, we initiated the first study—a focus group study involving staff and managers in health care and social care. The purpose of the study is to co-create a new working method for integrated health and social care in residential aged care facilities. The study will be followed up with workshops involving persons living in these facilities and their relatives, as well as staff and managers in health and social care. The aim of the workshops is to establish a co-created method that will then be applied and evaluated in residential aged care facilities.

Collaboration

• Institute of Health and Care Sciences
• The Department of Social Work
• Swinburne University of Technology
• Äldre samt vård och omsorgsförvaltningen, City of Gothenburg