This article has argued against waste in research endeavors so funding bodies, decision makers, and researchers can consider appropriate designs and methodologies for psycho social intervention in dementia. We highlight important methodological concerns which should be addressed. To reduce the gap between …

This research publication is part of the book Creating empowering environments for people with dementia : addressing inclusive design from homes to cities. Summary of the whole book: This edited volume addresses the environments that exacerbate, exclude, and stigmatise those living with dementia to explore …

Toepassingen voor meer kwaliteit van leven bij dementie worden weinig gebruikt in de praktijk en het onderwijs. Dit komt door de ‘implementatiekloof’. In leergemeenschappen werken partners in onderzoek, onderwijs en praktijk samen. Zij weten daarom veel over het overbruggen van de implementatiekloof. …

Introduction: The new concept of ‘living well with dementia’ is currently gaining traction in practice, policy, and research. However, people with dementia and their carers’ own understanding of this concept has not received much scholarly attention. This is because empirical studies into living well …

In Nederland combineert één op de vier mensen met een betaalde baan hun werk met mantelzorg. Het combineren van werk en mantelzorg verloopt vaak goed, en mantelzorgers vinden het waardevol om te doen. Toch geeft mantelzorg ook risico’s voor de gezondheid en het welzijn van mantelzorgers, en hun inzetbaarheid …

De OOG-methodiek is een handreiking én een training bestaande uit twee dagdelen. De OOG-methodiek ondersteunt professionals bij de vijf aandachtspunten van het cultuursensitief omgaan met onbegrepen gedrag bij mensen met dementie thuis en hun mantelzorgers. Het gaat om 1) cultuursensitieve basishouding, …

Introduction: Developing sustainable health policy requires an understanding of the future demand for health and social care. We explored the characteristics of the 65+ population in the Netherlands in 2020 and 2040, focusing on two factors that determine care needs: (1) the occurrence of complex health …

Aims: This study explored what informal caregivers of ethnic minority (EM) persons with dementia in the Netherlands perceive as culturally accessible health care and nurses' perceptions of how cultural competence can be improved to facilitate access to health care for EM persons with dementia and their …

Older care recipients living at home increasingly rely on support from informal caregivers. As informal caregivers often combine these caregiving tasks with other tasks, such as paid work, they are at risk of becoming overloaded. To decrease informal caregiver burden, diferent forms of support are available …

The concept of resilience, i.e., the capacity of a system to bounce back after a stressor, is gaining interest across many fields of science, policy and practice. To date, resilience research in people with cognitive decline has predominantly addressed the early stages of decline. We propose that: (1) …