Chemo To Go, Please
Leukaemia patients can take the Chemo To Go bag with them, thus avoid long-term hospitalisation.
It is not commonplace for designers to show up at the leukaemia section at Rigshospitalet, but nevertheless this happened in the Chemo to go, please project. Co-design is meeting people in their everyday lives and learning to understand their specific needs. The staff’s workflow and the patient’s and relatives’ everyday life was followed closely and they became a direct part of developing the chemo-to-go bag. As a result a bag was developed that takes into consideration the true needs in the cancer treatment process. The bag contains a treatment developed by a project nurse Katrine Fridthjof and chief doctor Lars Kjeldsen(Rigshospitalet). With the chemo-to-go bag, leukemia patients can take the chemo with them, thus avoid long-term hospitalisation, which has proved to be of great positive effect: • Feeling less sick when you are not hospitalized. • Eating more as you can eat when you want from your own kitchen. • Mentally strengthened as you are closer to relatives.