Challenge looks at Sedentary Lives

The DBA Inclusive Design Challenge 2009 is a collaboration between the Royal College of Art and the Design Business Association, which represents more than 200 of Britain's leading design firms.

Its sponsor, Sanctuary Care, also supported the DBA Inclusive Design Challenge 2008 on the theme of design for memory loss in old age.

Sanctuary Care has 52 registered care homes, four home care businesses and more than 2,300 staff. The organisation is keen to work with the RCA and the design industry to create new products, services and communications that address the problems faced by older people in care homes. The Challenge model teams creative designers with expert user groups offering real insight into their disabilities.

The finalists in the DBA Inclusive Design Challenge 2008 presented their projects at an awards night at the RCA on 18 March 2008. Joint winners were Adare with its Mind Book to improve communication between dementia sufferers, family members and carers, and Judge Gill with its new modular building design for a circular care home.