DESIGN RESEARCH 4 HEALTH LAB
DESIGN RESEARCH 4 HEALTH LAB
health, design, community, care

The Design Health Innovation Clinic

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The Drexel Design Research for Health Lab is a transdisciplinary research group based at Drexel University focused on co-designing health and care solutions with and for people living with disabilities and chronic conditions. We conduct community-based participatory research (CBPR) and design-driven interventions aimed at improving health outcomes, autonomy, and well-being. We offer support, process, & innovation to our partners in the fields of health, non-profit, built environment, and service design. Please reach out if you have a project that needs a participatory human-centered approach.

 
 

MCSAP

Mantua

Creative

Standard

for

AGING-IN-PLACE

This is a tool we use to help EVERYONE age-in-place.

By systematically studying the benefits of in-home assessment to support aging in place dialogue and planning through a comparative methods approach that includes qualitative, observational, and generative engagements with householders in three housing typologies, DRDR4Health has developed a tool that can serve as a guide for communities and organizations seeking to help older adults live in their communities for as long as possible.

The MCSAP scorecard is an interior-focused, trauma-informed, analytical scorecard that provides actionable next steps for residents to repair and maintain their urban interior spaces. The DRDR4Health Lab created the MCSAP scorecard with participation from community members to determine what is needed for older adults to live safely in their homes and maintain their quality of life. It is different from existing assessments because it goes beyond asking what needs to be “fixed” by engaging in a direct dialogue with the householder to determine their personal ideas for and perceptions of the space.

Through participatory projects in the community and the study of age-friendly principles, age-friendly care and current standards in aging, the design research team developed the Mantua Creative Standard for Aging-in-place (MCSAP), an interiors-focused trauma-informed analytical scorecard with actionable next steps for residents to repair and maintain their urban interior spaces and develop creative space. For more info on the MCSAP and how to work with us please fill in this form

Our Partners

both past and present, include:

  • The Casa Farnese/ Farnese Foundation

  • Second Story Collective

  • American Hospital Association — Age-Friendly Care Action Group

  • Swiss Center for Design and Health AG

  • Penn Medicine Center for Healthcare Transformation and Innovation

  • The Autism Institute

  • The Drexel Writers Room

  • Domestic Violence Centers of Chester County

  • The Alliance of Non-Profit Care Providers Presbyterian Homes

  • Fabric Health

  • Ewing Cole

  • St Christopher’s Hospital

  • IMPACT Services

  • FAIMER

  • DUO

  • Dornsife School of Public Health

  • Agewell Collaboratory

  • People’s Emergency Center

  • Scattergood Foundation

  • One Art Community Center

  • Bancroft

  • The Environmental Collaboratory

  • Town of Van Buren, Maine

About Culture of Care:

“ Cultures of Care celebrates people that practice collective care in unconventional and insurgent ways. Care is an essential, immediate and practical way to create belonging. Perhaps most vitally in our urgent times, at the heart of each profile you will find provocations that are seeds for reshaping society and how we relate to each other and the world.”

https://belonging.berkeley.edu/cultures-of-care/overview/why