Built Environments to support rehabilitation for patients with stroke - From the hospital to the home (B Sure)

There is a fundamental transformation of healthcare where care and rehabilitation aim to be provided outside the specialized hospitals closer to the person and often also at home i.e., local healthcare (Nära vård).

This new policy is not only a challenge for people with complex healthcare conditions but also for the planners of our communities and healthcare services.

Rehabilitation at home can support the health and well-being of people with functional limitations such as stroke, but we also see evidence of society being unprepared to fully support this.

Surprisingly, little attention has been given to how the built environment can support the rehabilitation and people´s health and their ability to live an active life.

To address this, we need both knowledge of important aspects of the environment for the rehabilitation process and innovative new models.

We assume this can be created with efficient collaboration between various actors such as the users, regions, municipalities and the building sector.

Our overarching aim is to produce knowledge of requirements on rehabilitation-supportive built environments as a result of the transformation to local healthcare. This can constitute the basis for strategic planning and actions for socially sustainable community environments.

The project is carried out with participation co-design and includes literature studies, interviews with stakeholders, prototype development and testing.