Music can touch people deeply, and lead to wellbeing as an all-encompassing word for everything that makes life worth living, or at least can make it liveable. Musicians can play an important role in these processes, not as pseudo-therapists, but from their own artistic identity, with an approach in …

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has led highly developed healthcare systems to the brink of collapse due to the large numbers of patients being admitted into hospitals. One of the potential prognostic indicators in patients with COVID-19 is frailty. The degree of frailty could be used to assist both …

Purpose: Lactate is an established prognosticator in critical care. However, there still is insufficient evidence about its role in predicting outcome in COVID-19. This is of particular concern in older patients who have been mostly affected during the initial surge in 2020. Methods: This prospective …

Community care is becoming increasingly important. In the Netherlands, the percentage of people over the age of 65 is expected to increase to 22% by 2025, leading to more elderly patients, often with long-term and complex health problems (multimorbidity). Because many of these patients continue to live …

Met de toenemende vergrijzing in ons land zal er ook een toename plaatsvinden van het aantal ouderen met dementie. De ziekte van Alzheimer, lewy Body dementie en vasculaire dementie zijn de meest voorkomende oorzaken van dementie. Het zijn progressieve aandoeningen die de hersenfuncties aantasten. Het …

Presentation at conference about methods and result scoping review into factors influencing family involvement in treatment decision making for older patients with cancer. Presenter is Bea Dijkman. Other names where involved in the research and approved the presentation.Background and purposeMany older …

BackgroundTranscutaneous vagal nerve stimulation has analgesic potential and might be elicited by abdominally administered low-frequency vibrations. The objective was to study the safety and effect of a combination of music and abdominally administered low-frequency vibrations on pain intensity in elderly …

Dit onderzoek wil betrokkenen uit de domeinen kunst, zorg en welzijn handvatten bieden en een denkraam aandragen dat aansluit bij het hybride karakter van de sociaal artistieke praktijk. Dit is een praktijk die zich dwars over de grens van de kunsten, de zorg en de leefwereld van betrokkenen beweegt. …

Presentatie voor cultuurcoaches van verschillende wijken van de stad Groningen over het project Hoor je ons?, met als doel kennismaking en verkenning mogelijkheden op het gebied van verduurzaming en doorwerking van het initiatief en valorisatie van de onderzoeksresultaten.