Background: Community care professionals need to encourage older adults in performing functional activities to maintain independence. However, professionals often perform functional activities on behalf of older adults. To change this, insights into the behavior and barriers of professionals in encouraging …

Background and aim – Patients undergo one or more medical interventions in a hospital. In the hospital, patients are surrounded by spaces and services. The output in a hospital is the patients’ outcome. To gain understanding about a holistic experience of patients, we assessed the experience and well-being …

We leven in een tijd waarin alles om ons heen continue aan het veranderen is. De afgelopen jaren hebben zich verschillende veranderingen voorgedaan bij Vitalis. Tegelijkertijd worden deze veranderingen niet altijd als prettig ervaren. Er zijn in het verleden veel veranderingen goed verlopen. Toch zijn …

In the global pop music industries, revenue models have shifted from physical record sales to streaming services and live performances. At the same time, the supply of live music performances has changed as a result of festivalization. This study aims to understand the effects of festivalization on the …

In this study, several aspects of Saxion spin-offs have been analysed, the numbers, workplaces, location, migration, gender issues, different economic sectors and survival rates. The main question underlying all these analyses was what the impact of Saxion as university of applied sciences is on the …

The significant role of a dairy cooperative is determined by its performance. KUD Giri Tani as a dairy cooperative has low performance in its financial and supplying milk to milk processor company, such as low cash asset, large the debt to feed supplier, lack of support services provided, many farmer …

Financial exclusion as a topic over the years has attracted several scholars to investigate the reasons why specific social groups of people get excluded from formal financial services. Some of the social groups discovered to always be excluded are women, the elderly, ethnic groups, minorities, and immigrants. …

While the technical application domain seems to be to most established field for AI applications, the field is at the very beginning to identify and implement responsible and fair AI applications. Technical, non-user facing services indirectly model user behavior as a consequence of which unexpected …

Anthropocentrism is the belief that value is human-centered and that all other beings are means to human ends. The Oxford English Dictionary defines anthropocentrism as “regarding humankind as the central or most important element of existence”. Anthropocentrism focuses on humanistic values as opposed …