Abstract This article examines how a sense of home can be created in complex clinical healthcare contexts for vulnerable patients. While existing research in this field focuses mainly on patient experience, we take a design anthropological approach to advance the discussion by examining how healthcare staff participate as “everyday designers,” who improvise to create circumstances for homeliness. We draw on ethnographic research undertaken in the Older Persons Unit (OPU) of a Psychiatric Department, before and after the Unit’s move from an older facility to a newly built large regional hospital in Australia. We propose that the ongoing everyday designing of homeliness by hospital staff, in collaboration with patients, is an element of care that contributes significantly to bringing the feeling of “home,” and the sense of comfort associated with it, into a clinical environment.

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卫生保健中的家常：日常设计的作用

摘要 本文探讨了如何在复杂的临床医疗环境中为弱势患者营造一种家的感觉。虽然该领域的现有研究主要侧重于患者体验，但我们采用设计人类学方法通过检查医护人员如何作为“日常设计师”参与讨论，他们即兴创造居家环境。我们借鉴了精神病科老年人科 (OPU) 在该科从旧设施搬到澳大利亚新建的大型区域医院之前和之后进行的民族志研究。我们建议，医院工作人员与患者合作进行的日常居家设计是一种护理元素，可以显着带来“家”的感觉以及与之相关的舒适感，