In solving systemic design challenges designers co-create with professionals from various fields. In the context of innovation in healthcare practices, this study investigates design abilities that healthcare professionals develop by participating in co-design projects. We conducted a mixed-methods research …

Workshop gegeven over activeren van inactieve ouderenParticipatie in EU-project Base

In het kader van samenwering tussen huisartsen en medisch specialisten van de regio Smallingerland is er een congres georganiseerd met het thema vallen bij ouderen

BACKGROUND: Frailty is a predictor of adverse outcomes in elderly patients. The Canadian Study of Health and Aging Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) is an often-used frailty assessment instrument. However, the CFS's reliability and validity in patients with burn injuries are unknown. This study aimed to assess …

Inaugural lecture, delivered upon public acceptance of the endowed professorship in Professionalisation of Nursing and Care in Elderly Care by Prof. Dr. Robbert J.J. Gobbens at Tilburg University on 29 September 2023.

Background: Frailty and multimorbidity are common among patients in geriatric rehabilitation care (GRC). Proper care of these patients involves multiple professionals which requires optimal interprofessional collaboration to provide the best possible support. Interprofessional collaboration (IPC) goes …

Young widowhood, conceptualized as the loss of one’s spouse before the age of 50, is a profoundly painful and distressing loss (Den Elzen, 2017, 2018). The literature on young widowhood shows the death of a partner generally causes a fragmentation of the self, as it violates expectations of the normal …

Presentatie in het kader van bezoek van wethouder Eelco Eikenaar

Many neighborhoods dating from the 1970s, with corporation-owned terraced housing in open urban schemes, saw a round of renovation for the houses in the last decades, but left the supply of family homes intact. This housing stock doesn’t meet the needs of the elderly still living in them anymore, nor …

Welke meetinstrumenten zijn valide om de mobiliteit van klinisch opgenomen kwetsbare ouderen in kaart te brengen? Met de groeiende bevolking van ouderen en de grote impact op gezondheids- en sociale zorg, wordt het steeds belangrijker om deze kwetsbare groep te identificeren. Zij hebben mogelijk meer …