The Essential Elements for a Nursing Home According to Stakeholders from Healthcare and Technology: Perspectives from Multiple Simultaneous Monodisciplinary Workshops

Abstract

Technology and architectural solutions are needed as a means of support in future nursing homes. This study investigated how various monodisciplinary groups of stakeholders from healthcare and technology envision the nursing home of the future and which elements are necessary for its creation. Moreover, differences in needs and interests between the various stakeholders were considered. This qualitative study gathered data via 10 simultaneous sticky note brainstorm sessions with 95 professional stakeholders, which resulted in 1459 quotes in five categories that were clustered into themes and processed into word clouds. The stakeholders prioritized the needs of the resident and placed the most importance on the fact that a nursing home is primarily a place to live in the final stages of one's life. A mix of factors related to the quality of care and the quality of the built environment and technology is needed. Given the fact that there are differences in what monodisciplinary groups of stakeholders see as an ideal nursing home, multidisciplinary approaches should be pursued in practice to incorporate as many new views and stakeholder needs as possible.

KEYWORDS:

• Post-it®
• design
• qualitative
• older adults
• geriatrics
• word clouds

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

All participants of the sessions are kindly thanked for their willingness to volunteer and share their views. Tom Raijmakers, Lotte Oude Weernink, Nakul Paricharak, Chris Hoedemakers, Josha Woudstra, Lisa van der Voort, Thomas van de Werff, and Bram van der Putten are thanked for their support.

FUNDING

The Municipality of Eindhoven (Gemeente Eindhoven) and Stichting Promotie Installatietechniek (PIT) are thanked for their financial support.

SUPPLEMENTAL DATA

Supplemental data for this article can be accessed at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02763893.2014.930365.