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Are Your Children Budding Designers?
TV’s Dr Christian Jessen explains how your children can help design the injection device of the future.
2nd September 2010
For the 27,000 under 18s in the UK who have to inject themselves daily, managing conditions like growth hormone deficiency or diabetes can be an incredibly daunting experience. And if your child has one of these conditions, or has a friend or classmate who has to inject regularly, then you’ll want to know how you can help make their life easier.
While as a parent you can assist them in the initial stages of treatment, as they grow older they will have to take more responsibility for their own health. Whether it’s a school trip or holiday with friends, there will be many occasions where you won’t be there to help.
But it is often too easy for children and teenagers to forget to take their medication and for smaller children it can be a huge responsibility.
Evolving design of injection devices means that, where patients previously had only the option of using simple syringes and needles to inject medicines, there is a wide range of injection devices available including pens and ‘smart’ devices. And now, the Design for Health Award has been launched to give young people the opportunity to design the next innovative injection device.
Whether your child is a budding inventor or are themselves affected and have an idea on how to make things much simpler for children like them, they can submit their entry and help make a difference to the lives of thousands.
In the following video, Dr Christian Jessen talks to a young boy who is faced with daily injections and explains what the Design for Health Award involves and how your children can enter.
For more information visit www.designforhealth.org.uk
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