Aanleiding: Seksualiteit is een levenslange basisbehoefte van een mens. Bij ouderen (65 jaar en ouder) neemt de seksuele activiteit geleidelijk af maar stopt niet. De seksualiteit wordt negatief beïnvloed ten gevolge van de ouderdom, mensen verliezen hun partner maar ook problemen in psychische en lichamelijke …

Real-time location systems (RTLS) can be implemented in aged care for monitoring persons with wandering behaviour and asset management. RTLS can help retrieve personal items and assistive technologies that when lost or misplaced may have serious financial, economic and practical implications. Various …

The objective of this study was to understand community-dwelling older people’s readiness for receiving telehealth by studying their intention to use videoconferencing and capacities for using digital technology in daily life as indicators. A mixed-method triangulation design was used. First, a cross-sectional …

Purpose – In the domain of healthcare, both process efficiency and the quality of care can be improved through the use of dedicated pervasive technologies. Among these applications are so-called real-time location systems (RTLS). Such systems are designed to determine and monitor the location of assets …

Het doel van dit onderzoek was inzicht te verkrijgen in de huidige status van het samenspel van beroepskrachten met mantelzorgers en vrijwilligers op twee woningen van de psychogeriatrische afdeling van verpleeghuis De Lingehof, onderdeel van Zinzia Zorggroep. De opdrachtgever was benieuwd naar dit samenspel …

Purpose – Over 8 per cent of the Dutch nursing home population is bedfast, and this number is slowly increasing. The quality of life (QoL) of this population is lower than that of residents who are still mobile. Little research has been conducted on how to improve the QoL of this bedfast population, …

Hoe is de implementatie van Duchesse-maaltijden verlopen binnen de verschillende locaties van het deelnemende verpleeghuis en kan op basis hiervan gezegd worden dat deze is geslaagd?

This special issue includes five articles which cover a diverse range of issues related to recent advances in the design of technologies used in aged-care facilities and the built environment in general. Original item at Emerald: https://doi.org/10.1108/JET-06-2018-055

Purpose – Older people with dementia (OPD) have specific housing and technology-related needs, for which various design principles exist. A model for designing environments and its constituting items for people with dementia that has a firm foundation in neurology may help guide designers in making design …