At a time when the population is ageing and most people choose to live in their own home for as long as possible, it is important to consider various aspects of supportive and comfortable environments for housing. This study, conducted in South Australia, aims to provide information about the links between …

Due to labour shortages it is a challenge to find skilled employees and many companies struggle to retain employees because of competing employers. In the Netherlands there are many international students and graduates who leave after receiving their degree. Therefore, this research aims to advise Dutch …

OBJECTIVE: To assess the reliability and validity of a shortened version of the Rainbow Model of Integrated Care (RMIC) measurement tool (MT). The original version of the measurement tool has been modified (shortened) for the Australian context. DESIGN: Validation of the psychometric properties of the …

Quality of life serves a reference against which you can measure the various domains of your own life or that of other individuals, and that can change over time. This definition of the World Health Organization encompasses many elements of daily living, including features of the individual and the environment …

Tijdens het mini-symposium presenteren leden van de onderzoeksgroep en leden van NetwerkZON hun Good Practice en onderzoeksresultaten.

Smart technology drives us to an alldestructive pace, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It is well-founded that we started to worry. We still see technology and AI as an unstoppable future that happens to us. Is that true? We are heading for a huge change in mentality. It is necessary to limit acquired …

After the arrival of refugees in the Netherlands, many citizens wanted to act and help the social inclusion of refugees. Community initiatives emerged where some of the initiatives even grew into potential Social Enterprises. In this research we investigated the main issues initiatives around refugees …

Background & aims: High protein delivery during early critical illness is associated with lower mortality, while energy overfeeding is associated with higher mortality. Protein-to-energy ratios of traditional enteral formulae are sometimes too low to reach protein targets without energy overfeeding. …

Groningen as the Dutch Silicon Valley? Too good to be true? Of all jobs in the city, about seven and a half percent are in the IT sector. According to het Financieel Dagblad (2018), IT giants as IBM and Google, but also smaller IT companies and start-ups attract recent graduates, which works wonderfully …

OBJECTIVE: To develop a valid and reliable tool to measure triadic decision making between older adults with multiple chronic conditions (MCC), their informal caregivers and geriatricians. METHODS: Video observational study with cross-sectional assessment of interaction during medical consultations between …