This special issue includes five articles which cover a diverse range of issues related to recent advances in the design of technologies used in aged-care facilities and the built environment in general. Original item at Emerald: https://doi.org/10.1108/JET-06-2018-055

Purpose – Older people with dementia (OPD) have specific housing and technology-related needs, for which various design principles exist. A model for designing environments and its constituting items for people with dementia that has a firm foundation in neurology may help guide designers in making design …

An increasing life expectancy brings higher risks for getting a neurodegenerative disorder like Alzheimer’s disease (AD). As there is still no cure for this disease, expenses in health care keep rising because most of the care for patients with AD are from nursing homes and hospitals. The change from …

Perceptions of community care and placement preferences in first-year nursing students: A multicentre, cross-sectional study Margriet VAN IERSEL MSc1, Corine H.M. LATOUR PhD1, Rien DE VOS PhD2, Paul A. KIRSCHNER PhD3,5, Wilma J.M. SCHOLTE OP REIMER PhD1,4. 1 ACHIEVE - Centre of Applied Research, Faculty …

Presentation with prof. dr. Rineke Smilde at the Institute of Music Therapy on two live music practices in elderly care: Music & Dementia and Meaningful Music in Health Care (MiMiC).

In our time, professions are passed on form father to child less and less, and some professions related to craftsmanship are disappearing, being replaced by industrial production. I come from a family of wooden artisan, and I witness what happened to my grandfather when he could not work anymore: deprived …

Lifelong learning in music and medicine

PhD-research presentation on the preliminary outcomes of case study 1: MiMiC.

Bewegen is gezond. Dat weten we allemaal. Maar het is voor ons persoonlijk al lastig genoeg om te voldoen aan de Nederlandse Norm Gezond bewegen laat staan hoe het is voor een persoon die fysieke en lichamelijke beperkingen heeft. Het effectief implementeren van fysieke activiteiten is een multi- of …

Het aantal ouderen in Nederland neemt toe en daarmee ook het aantal kwetsbare ouderen. In deze lezing zal ingegaan worden op de definitie van kwetsbaarheid (frailty) en welke factoren een rol spelen in het kwetsbaar worden.