During the spring quarter this year, the Live Well Collaborative qualified as a finalist for the IDEA® Awards in the Design Research Category!
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A team here at the Live Well Collaborative worked with Drake Hospital and other LWC collaborators to produce a video explaining the design research process involved in redesigning the patient gown. The fall quarter 08 project focused on designing a new solution for patients who are prone to pressure ulcers, specifically around the hospital gown and transfer pad. Thanks to all of our members who contributed for a great spring quarter.
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About IDEA
 The IDEA ® (International Design Excellence Awards) program is the premier international competition honoring design excellence in products, ecodesign, interaction design, packaging, strategy, research and concepts. (source: IDEA). |
Criteria we applied to the gown design
1. Fostering Relationships
- promoting patient dignity
- seamless design
- overlap access
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2. Enhancing Job Efficiency
- Wrap Access
- Seamless Pressure Relief
- One piece construction
- Visible sizing & organization
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3. Adding Value to the Patient
- Increasing patient comfort
- Offering variety throughout stay
- bringing home into the hospital
- designing for patient mobility
- motivating with incentives
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The Progressive Recovery Collection featured in DAAP's Annual Fashion Show 2009: Spectra
Every year in June, The College of Design, Architecture, Art & Planning (DAAP) holds an annual fashion show to premier the talent of the Fashion Design & Product Development seniors. This year had a range of innovative infusions, bringing in CCM dancers as models and a local Cincinnati dj, 'Ruckus Roboticus'. The Progressive Recovery Collection developed by the Live Well Collaborative in partnership with Hill-Rom and UC was also showcased, modeled by the dancers. The first gown was featured on a model sitting in a wheelchair, representing the least mobile, high risk patient. She was pushed by models in the 'partially-mobile' gown designs. These models also showed off the accessories, including color-therapy leg warmers, arm warmers, and scarves with pockets. The final piece of the collection is a two-piece physical therapy outfit, which allows for full range of mobility for recovering patients; the model danced and moved freely with her physical therapy ball prop, representing the full recovery of the patient in her final gown before she leaves to go home.
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Photographed and donated by George Ellis.
You can check out more about The Progressive Recovery Collection and the DAAP Fashion Show at the following press sites below.
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