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Scenario Individual Plan and ICT

Give the need to provide users with a more comprehensive, coordinated and individual custom offer, there will be scenarios developed that illustrate how life to long-term needy can develop in the future.

Background

People with a need for long-term connected and coordinated services has the right to receive a compiled Individual Plan. The plan includes the whole health care's offer, but also involves the school system, labor agency, insurance agency, social service, and more. The Individual Plan focuses on the users' right to influence their own situation and will be based on what the user defines as a goal and which resources and requirements he/she means to have. The right to Individual Plans will affect the way health services is organized and how network and social life can turn out.

The technology developments will create possibilities for new ways of interaction, communication and participation. How this will affect organization of relief services depends on the choices taken now.

A scenario is a tool to organize perceptions about various future societies, a method to learn about the future by understanding the most unpredictable, but important forces acting on the future. It is a group process that encourages exchange of information and develops a deeper understanding of central themes that are important to the future of their own business. The goal is to create a number of different stories by extending the unpredictable, but important forces. The stories together with the process to come there has as a goal to both increase the business' knowledge and the knowledge of the involved participants.

Applications

  • Tool for strategic planning

  • Contribution to public debate

  • Promote and facilitate discussions about the future¨

"You know you have good scenarios when they are both possible and surprising, when they have the power to break old stereotypes, and when those who made then has an ownership to them and uses them actively." - Schwartz

Scenariolab at the NST will in this project cooperate with the Patient Programme at NST to create scenarios that illustrates how the life to long-term needy can develop in the future

Goal

The project will prepare develop scenarios that are based on the need to provide long-term needy a more comprehensive, coordinated and individual custom offer. The scenarios will be based on conditions that are important for the users and that contributes to increase their quality of life. It will show possibilities and consequences of choices made in relation to the use of information technology, and other choices made in society and affects their life situation. The scenarios will inspire debate, and raising awareness of choices and possible consequences of these.

Target audience

Primary target audience is NGOs for long-term needy and the authorities.

Workform

The project will use various methods for learning about scenario models and scenario building, to get ideas how the general social and technological developments will be, and to get insight into everyday life to long-term needy. The project will get support from the following sources:

  • Literature: Search in literature about scenarios and scenario building, technology- and general social development, reports with analyzes and descriptions of issues related to long-term needy.

  • Video: Videos that deal with relevant issues.

  • Interview: Interview and conversations with long-term needy, dependents, health care workers, representatives for NGOs and more.

  • Workshop with reference group: The reference group will act as a resource for the project group. Meeting will be a forum for new ideas input, feedback and quality assurance.

  • Course: Implementation of storytelling/scenario writing.

Project manager

Deede Gammon

Project partners

The project- and reference group includes representatives for the users, the disabled common organization, the primary health care and the specialist health care.