Background: Teamwork is essential in healthcare, but team performance tends to deteriorate in stressful situations. Further development of training and education for healthcare teams requires a more complete understanding of team performance in stressful situations. We wanted to learn from others, by …

Despite increased healthcare extramuralisation, related to increased elderly patients living at home, most nursing students still see the hospital as career favourite. This is problematic, because of the widespread labour-market shortages in community care in many Western countries. At the Amsterdam …

Het aandeel ouderen in Nederland stijgt al jaren door de toenemende vergrijzing. Ouderen worden van overheidswege gestimuleerd om langer thuis te wonen. Een deel van de thuiswonende ouderen heeft professionele ondersteuning nodig, waaronder ouderen met nietaangeboren hersenletsel (NAH). Ouderen met NAH …

Background International studies provide an overview of socio-demographic characteristics associated with loneliness among older adults, but few studies distinguished between emotional and social loneliness. This study examined socio-demographic characteristics associated with emotional and social loneliness. Methods Data …

Background: Neck and shoulder complaints are common in primary care physiotherapy. These patients experience pain and disability, resulting in high societal costs due to, for example, healthcare use and work absence. Content and intensity of physiotherapy care can be matched to a patient’s risk of persistent …

https://crimsonpublishers.com/ggs/fulltext/GGS.000645.php Sinds kort is er in Nederland meer aandacht voor de intieme en seksuele behoeften van ouderen, zowel in hun privé-thuisomgeving als in de langdurige zorg. Het is algemeen bekend dat een persoonsgerichte aanpak nodig is om de kwaliteit van de zorg …

Background: Due to multimorbidity and geriatric problems, older people often require both psychosocial and medical care. Collaboration between medical and social professionals is a prerequisite to deliver high-quality care for community-living older people. Effective, safe, and person-centered care relies …

Background: Rising healthcare costs, an increasing general practitioner shortage and an aging population have made healthcare organization transformation a priority. To meet these challenges, traditional roles of non-medical members have been reconsidered. Within the domain of physiotherapy, there has …

Through a qualitative examination, the moral evaluations of Dutch care professionals regarding healthcare robots for eldercare in terms of biomedical ethical principles and non-utility are researched. Results showed that care professionals primarily focused on maleficence (potential harm done by the …

Industrial design practice has broadened from designing (mass-)products towards more open, complex, dynamic, and networked design. Organizations are increasingly hire design professionals and turn their attention towards design as an important capability that can help them generate innovation and improve …