Oikonomou, Eleni; Zimmermann, Nici; Zhou, Ke; Tsoulou, Ioanna; Mavrogianni, Anna; Petrou, Giorgos; Gupta, Rajat; ... Davies, Mike; + view all Oikonomou, Eleni; Zimmermann, Nici; Zhou, Ke; Tsoulou, Ioanna; Mavrogianni, Anna; Petrou, Giorgos; Gupta, Rajat; Howard, Alastair; Davies, Mike; - view fewer (2023) Guidelines and Regulations for the Resilience of Care Provision to rising Temperatures: Findings from a participatory Design Stakeholder Workshop. Presented at: Ecocity World Summit 2023: Connecting Communities, London, UK.

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Older people in care homes are at a high risk of heat-related mortality and this risk is likely to increase further under climate change. The ClimaCare project aims to provide evidence and insights to help strengthen the resilience of care provision to rising temperatures, and enhance our understanding of individual behaviours, organisational capacity and governance to enable the UK’s care provision to develop equitable adaptation pathways. The participatory workshop organised as part of the ClimaCare project specifically aimed to investigate the causes of overheating in the care sector and to develop appropriate solutions, by obtaining a better understanding of the underlying system structure. This online workshop is part of a series of focus group sessions with a multidisciplinary stakeholder platform, comprising approximately 30 experts from the built environment, social care, and public health policy. The workshop addressed three key questions: a) What are the actions taken in response to overheating? b) What is the ownership and governance of these actions? c) What are the possible solutions relating to behavioural, operational and social factors and to building design and adaptation? In the first two breakout sessions, the participants were grouped per organisation to enable conversation depth, i.e. care home experts, policy makers and industry experts. In the third breakout session, the grouping was random to enable cross-organisation interactions. The participants were initially presented with a simple Causal Loop Diagram (CLD), based on preliminary findings from the ClimaCare project, that differentiated between fundamental and symptomatic solutions. Following the joint modification of the initial CLD and the joint search for solutions, an extended structure depicting the complex interactions and mechanisms that drive overheating and climate adaptation emerged. The final CLD graphically represents the underlying structure of the problem, and indicates possible areas for the development of solutions. The variables were colour-coded to represent the following themes: climate, active cooling, non-active cooling, affordability, acceptability, overheating awareness, quick fix enablers, behavioural and cultural aspects, care home governance, and policy and guidelines. The CLD will be corroborated with literature, informed by future workshops, and further analysed to investigate core links and leverage points.

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