Event showcases codesign for AI in home care
An upcoming forum targets the application of living lab methods to create a roadmap to effectively incorporate AI in the community care reform agendas.
Global Community Resourcing has teamed up with Swinburne University of Technology for the second in its series of events highlighting the potential application of artificial intelligence in the community and home care sector.
The AI in Community Care forum and workshop in Melbourne later this month aims to highlight AI applications growing an evidence base, current issues related to the practicalities of incorporating AI into practice, and how providers need to position themselves for the digital future AI provides.
It builds on the first forum at Queensland University of Technology in November 2024 and features the approach of Swinburne University’s Living Lab.
The Swinburne Living Lab is Australia’s longest running accredited living lab with expertise in codesigning with stakeholders in aged and community care settings, said its leader Professor Sonja Pedell.
“The Living Lab approach is bringing stakeholders together from the community and aged care industry, technology development, government and research to collaborate on innovative solutions,” Professor Pedell told Community Care Review.
“This event will focus on a responsible and inclusive approach to AI use and adoption in community and aged care settings as well as specifically in this period of massive reform.
“There is growing and significant proof that living lab networks working together increases uptake across diverse settings in complex service areas, such as home and community care, using co-design as the core approach,” she said.
During the forum, Professor Pedell and her colleagues will run interactive workshops on future landscape exploration and strategic industry needs. Elsewhere, the full-day event includes sessions on the importance of AI standardisation, re-engineering work and using machine learning to predict mental health diagnoses.
“Navigating the benefits and challenges of AI adoption requires a codesign process to involve community and aged care organisations and their workforces directly in the discussion,” Professor Pedell told CCR.
However, she said there was no assumption that organisations or staff were AI experts, but rather they hold a deep expertise and understanding of the delivery of home and community care in various settings.
“With a strategic and inclusive approach to collaborate there are massive opportunities for incorporating AI in community care reform agendas and the possibility of achieving significant impact,” said Professor Pedell.
The 2nd National AI in Community Care Event: Forum & Workshop takes place on Thursday 27 February 2025 from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm AEDT at Hawthorn Arts Centre, Hawthorn, Victoria.
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