As social beings, humans create relationships and connections that help meet their individual needs and design aims to build the bridge to achieve this. It is important to be able to zoom out and look at the various aspects that are involved and must be considered when designing for people and people are part of specific contexts and social structure.

This project makes use of social practice models such as Practice Theory and the Communities of Practice framework and aims to synthesize them to provide an understanding of how designers might design services for complex spaces to develop and sustain community relationships and practices. The focus of the project is to define the roles of a service provider in cultivating and facilitating community learning in the context of building capacities of informal caregivers to care for people living with dementia at home.

With the increasing ageing population of India, geriatric conditions such as dementia require the attention to care and offer dignified qualities of life to ageing members of society. In India, families express a desire to care for these individuals at home and in order to do so, it is important that they are enabled with the knowledge and support to care at home while retaining their quality of life

The project aims to create a service that builds the family caregiver’s capabilities to care by addressing aspects of self-efficacy and perception of support as they willfully take on caregiving roles and responsibilities.

The contributions of this project would be in exhibiting a practice-based approach in the design process and utilizing a community of practice framework to identify key service design concepts adopted to achieve the goal of community learning among dementia care providers in urban cities.

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