Community housing services adopt care models such as rehabilitation, recovery-oriented care and person-centered planning to improve the quality of life of service users with an intellectual or psychiatric disability. However, the way these care models are implemented and practiced can negatively impact …

The values of patient autonomy and community participation have become central in health care. However, care practices involve a plurality of possibly conflicting values. These values often transgress the borders of the individual professional–client relationship as they involve family members, other …

Mental health professionals are expected to stimulate the participation of service users with serious mental illness. This not only changes what is expected from service users and professionals, it also changes the values underlying their relationship. The value of autonomy becomes more important as …

Nurses are expected to support people to self-manage. Student nurses therefore need to master competencies that include the assessment of peoples' needs and preferences, and shared decision-making, whilst respecting and enhancing peoples' autonomy. Adapting nurse education programmes to meet this goal …

A major challenge for nurses in hospital care is supporting chronically ill patients in selfmanaging their chronic condition. Self-management support requires a broad range of competencies and is often regarded as difficult to implement in daily practice. So far, we have no insight in nurses’ behavior in …

Objective: To systematically explore the effectiveness and effective components of self-management interventions. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0738399116300799

OBJECTIVE: To provide a systematic overview of self-management interventions (SMI) for young people with chronic conditions with respect to content, formats, theories, and evaluated outcomes. METHODS: Embase, Medline, PsycINFO, Web-of-Science, CINAHL, and Cochrane were searched. Reviews' reference …

Self-management support is a major task of nurses in chronic care. Several conceptualizations on what self-management support encompasses are described in the literature. However, nurses' attitudes and perceptions related to self-management support are not known.

Hoe kunnen we verbeteringen in de langdurende zorg borgen en verspreiden? Dat was een vraag die voortkwam uit de verbetertrajecten uit het landelijke verbeterprogramma voor de langdurende zorg Zorg voor Beter (ZvB). In het project ZvB Regionaal werd de ontwikkelde methode om valpreventie te verhogen …

De Gezondheidsraad wordt alom gezien als een van de meest gezaghebbende wetenschappelijke adviesorganen. Ondanks dit gezag is de positie van de Raad lang niet altijd vanzelfsprekend. Hoewel de wettelijke taak van de Raad is om de minister en de Kamer te informeren, is het voor het behouden van de eigen …