Overview
The poster discusses the development of the Calm Spaces website by the Improving Life for Older Autistic People project. This involved a co-production process and the central involvement of older Autistic people throughout. It started with a survey and follow-up focus groups and interviews to determine what technology solutions would be helpful to older Autistic individuals and then proceeded with creating detailed specifications.
Calm Spaces was chosen as the name of the website to best describe what we are trying to achieve. We are building the main functionality with the developer Media Reborn. This will allow older Autistics only to provide reviews of services, venues and spaces to focus on the needs of older Autistic people. These will be readable by everyone. The screenshots are of preliminary designs. The poster also discusses how we will ensure long term sustainability through setting up a social firm and looking for funding.