How do you understand aging, participation, and open government? This spring,
our class is exploring how Finland’s commitment to open governance supports older citizens as
active participants in society. In this blog, we’ll discuss key aspects of our research, including
language alignment, challenges of meaningful participation, and the strengths and limitations of
incremental policy change.
In our project, we analyze Finland’s elderly health and social care system, mapping key actors, services, and data flows. With the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health and Kela, we investigate how patient information is managed, where gaps exist, and how better information sharing could enhance elderly care.
Project Description The EU LIFE biodiversity project is an eight-year funding mechanism to combat biodiversity loss in Finland. The Prime Minister’s Office’s goal is to develop cooperation between ministries to ensure that biodiversity issues are incorporated better into policy-making. There is a lack of policy coherence in the current siloed approach to biodiversity, which leads … Read more
Project Description The Finnish healthcare system is burdened by long lines and unequal access to care, with rising costs and a need for improvement. Kela, the national social insurance institution, is exploring a revised patient reimbursement model that aims to encourage continuity of care, improve availability and equal access to healthcare services, and reduce costs. … Read more
This blog provides a thumbnail of our final proposal. From this blog you are able to have a glimpse through our proposed four-step process toward a network of change agents. Also, some behind-the-scenes insights could be discovered here.
Our group identified excessive administrative burdens on Finland’s public healthcare professionals as a major obstacle to quality of care for patients. We beleive that reintroducing medical assistants to handle non-medical tasks should recuduce this obstacle. However, to do so, we have to convince our partners of the necessity and cost-efficiency of this reinstatement by speaking their language.
“How did you go from improving patient feedback to a co-innovation programme?” This blog post reflects on our journey to our final proposal. Inspired by Michael Porter’s value-based care and Nesta’s Creative Councils case, we proposed a programme to cultivate and share follow-up practices nationwide.
This blog post reports on work-in-progress within the DfG course! The post is written by group 1C dealing with the Prime Minister’s Office and Ministry of Environment’s brief on ‘Mainstreaming Biodiversity’. The group includes Dinah Coops and Anna Halvorsen from Creative Sustainability program, Sari Kukkasniemi from Collaborative and Industrial Design program, and Thao Nguyen from … Read more
How do we shift from fragmented healthcare to cohesive, continuous care? This blog post provides a concluding recap of our research and ideation process and introduces our final proposal: an adaptive and evolving action plan with three levels of intervention.
In this blog, Group 1B will present our exciting proposal! Let’s take a look at our work in progress over the last few weeks and how we co-created with our stakeholders to turn the key entry point into our final proposal.