Met het doel om financiële zelfredzaamheid in Nederland te bevorderen, steunt Aegon sinds 2016 verschillende lokale projecten op het gebied van armoedebestrijding en schuldhulpverlening. De projecten richten zich op mensen met schulden of op mensen met een groot risico op schulden die in armoede leven. …

Stichting van Schulden naar Kansen heeft in 2015 (toen nog onder de noemer van de Delta Lloyd Foundation) het actieprogramma Van Schulden naar Kansen gelanceerd. De ambitie van dit programma is om in vijf jaar tijd (2016-2020) in doelgebieden waar veel mensen van een laag inkomen leven, onder van 15% …

Purpose: Exercise therapy with a focus on muscle strengthening has proven to be effective for the management of knee osteoarthritis (OA). Yet it is not known whether high-intensity resistance training (RT) is more effective in improving upper leg muscle strength and physical performance than low-intensity …

Background and purpose The aim of this study is to investigate changes in movement behaviors, sedentary behavior and physical activity, and to identify potential movement behavior trajectory subgroups within the first two months after discharge from the hospital to the home setting in first-time stroke …

This study addresses the ethnic identity of transculturally placed adolescent foster youth with ethnic minority backgrounds in The Netherlands. We conducted qualitative interviews to provide insight into the lifeworlds of twenty foster youth. We found that constructing an ethnic identity was complex …

From the start of their career, nursing students and novice nurses are at risk of developing physical health problems due to high physical workload, which may lead to early exit from nursing. To provide an overview of interventions preventing physical health problems in early career, a systematic review …

In de ochtend van 13 januari 2018 kregen de inwoners van Hawaii een schokkend bericht op hun mobieltjes. Een officieel overheidsbericht. “Ballistic missile threat inbound to Hawaii. Seek immediate shelter. This is not a drill.”. Het was net de tijd dat de spanningen tussen de V.S en Korea hoog opliepen. …

It is estimated that over 30,000 lesions in the DNA are generated per cell per day. In S-phase, lesions in the DNA can stall replication, which can lead to secondary lesions such as DNA double- strand breaks. The DNA damage tolerance (DDT) network enables replication to be continued in the presence of …

Background There is little focus on adults with cerebral palsy (CP) in research and health care and insufficient knowledge on how to identify and manage pain in this population. Objectives This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to determine whether pain prevalence in adults with CP is high …

Objective To describe the epidemiology of health status, impairments, activities and participation in adults with cerebral palsy (CP). Data Sources Embase, MEDLINE, Web of Science, PsycINFO, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health, Cochrane, and Google Scholar were searched for 3 themes (“cerebral …