HackCare
HackCare, a catalogue of DIY hacks to create dementia-friendly homes.
With over 240 pages of simple, creative interventions and design innovations for the home, this Lien Foundation initiated publication combines the design and research insights of architects with the expertise of industrial designers, as well as caregiving wisdom from Alzheimer’s Disease Association (ADA), Brahm Centre and Khoo Teck Puat Hospital. Styled like an IKEA catalogue with online instruction manuals, the team behind the book used the Swedish furniture giant’s product to assemble practical hacks. But Hack Care is not confined to IKEA products. Instead, it presents a whole range of possibilities for caregivers that correspond to their different scales of ambition and the wide-ranging needs of persons with dementia – from larger-scale hacks like improvising the IKEA POÄNG chair to simple ones like camouflaging an exit door in a colour similar to its adjacent walls. After three years in the making, HackCare copies are available to the public for free and downloadable online too.