Background: The aging population is increasingly faced with daily life limitations, threatening their Functional Independence (FI). These limitations extend different life domains and require a broad range of community-care professionals to be addressed. The Decision Support Tool for Functional Independence …

Increasing attention has been paid to the ‘voice’ of people living with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or dementia, but there is a lack of clarity about how everyday life is perceived from this insider’s perspective. This study aimed to explore the everyday life experiences, challenges and facilitators …

Hoofdstuk 2 uit Position paper Learning Communities van Netwerk learning Communities Grote maatschappelijke uitdagingen op het gebied van vergrijzing, duurzaamheid, digitalisering, segregatie en onderwijskwaliteit vragen om nieuwe manieren van werken, leren en innoveren. In toenemende mate wordt daarom …

There is a lack of evidence to guide district nurses in using nurse-sensitive patient outcomes as it is unclear how these outcomes are currently used in daily district nursing practice. Therefore, we aimed to explore (1) which nurse-sensitive patient outcomes are measured and how these outcomes are measured, …

Beschouwing op de impact van de Covid-19-pandemie op situatie van de wijkverpleging in Nederland.

Forensic psychiatric inpatients are frequently exposed to aggression from fellow patients during their treatment, but research on how this impacts patients’ well-being and treatment progress is lacking. In this study, we interviewed nine patients on their experiences of victimization during mandatory …

Background: The concept of Functional Independence (FI), defined as ‘functioning physically safe and independent from other persons, within one’s context”, plays an important role in maintaining the functional ability to enable well-being in older age. FI is a dynamic and complex concept covering four …

Oudere patiënten slikken, als ze meerdere chronische ziekten hebben, vaak heel wat pillen op een dag. Maar wie houdt bij patiënten die thuis wonen het overzicht over al die verschillende medicijnen? Van de bijwerkingen? En of die pillen wel doen wat ze moeten doen? Verpleegkundige Nienke Dijkstra (33) …

De vergrijzing neemt toe en een van de belangrijkste zorguitdagingen die daarmee gepaard gaat, is de toenemende prevalentie en incidentie van fysieke en cognitieve beperkingen van oudere volwassenen. Deze fysieke beperkingen hebben grote invloed op de zelfredzaamheid en vergroten de kans op ziekten, …

Thinking about care in the organization of an ecology is central to the interdisciplinary research group Care Ecologies; found during a lockdown in the spring of 2021 and hosted by ARIAS Platform for Research Through the Arts and Sciences in Amsterdam. In Towards Becoming an Ecology of Care group members …