The vision of the PRoF consortium reaches beyond the creation of architectural concept rooms and designing healing environments, it also aims to improve the welfare experience inside healthcare organisations. Therefore, the PRoF consortium has established a new innovative think-thank for social items: the PRoF-JEWEL team. This team is challenged to find keywords for a Joyful WELfare and use them to discover and disseminate innovative approaches for social issues.
 
This time the lead roles in the creative team are not taken by the architects and manufacturers as it was the case for the architectural concepts; the PRoF members representing care stakeholders and social organisations are in the lead of this innovative approach to improve welfare.
 
The PRoF-JEWEL initiative is especially interested to discover the strengths and hidden competences of the individuals who are vulnerable to threats to their well-being. We aim to discover the pearls of happiness hidden inside the individuals and their environment.
 

On Nov. 25, the ProDoMo-house has been opened by Mr. C. D'Haese, the mayor of the city of Aalst during an event where the main partners explained their vision.
As most of us know, housing is often not adapted to the needs of the elderly. The PRoF concept rooms show innovative ideas on how to create homes that are fit to those needs. To go one step further and allow elders to experience the new concepts in real life and to get feedback from actual users, the PRoF consortium initiated the ProDomo project in the Aalst Living lab (AIPA) to build a home where elders can stay for some days. This allows them to fully experience the innovations and provide feedback to create even better product in the future.

Short impressions: a guided tour  and first reactions by the test panel (In Dutch)
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