Life House: an integrated model of care and research
Life House is a Geneva-based project connecting precision medicine, somatic investigation, and adapted living environments for children and young adults with rare genetic conditions and highly complex neurodevelopmental profiles.
Life House starts with the most complex cases because they reveal the system's limits most clearly. If we can build better medical, relational, and environmental responses there, we can create approaches that later improve care for a much broader population.
It is designed to link science, daily life, and long-term support instead of treating them as separate worlds.
Not hospital-based, yet medically serious. Because for complex lives, everything is connected.
Too often, highly complex neurodevelopmental situations are approached through crisis, fragmentation, and institutional dead ends. Medical causes are missed. Families are left coordinating care alone. Professionals work in systems that do not connect genetics, behavior, somatic health, and environment. Life House was created to respond differently.
Life House brings together, in a non-hospital environment, the many dimensions of support that are too often treated separately. Medical care, daily life, relationships, environment, rhythm, and meaningful activity are deeply intertwined. For complex neurodevelopmental profiles, the response must be integrated because the reality is.
Research
Life House develops a translational research platform with the University of Geneva, EspeRare, and clinical partners to explore rare genetic variants, drug repositioning, and individualized therapeutic pathways.
Somatic Care
Life House works to make somatic investigation central in the care of highly complex neurodevelopmental profiles, with the goal of preventing crises rather than reacting to them too late.
Care
Life House develops new forms of support through trained teams, continuity of accompaniment, atypical talent recruitment, and a stronger culture of care.
Living Environments
By 2030, Life House aims to open two complementary places: an inclusive urban grocery-apartment and a rural site designed around calm, regulation, beauty, and joy.
Life House is not designed as one more institution. It is designed as a demonstrator: a model that can document, test, and transmit another way of organizing care.
In partnership with
- EspeRare Foundation
- HUG
- Centre CORAIL
- n-Lorem Foundation
- University of Geneva