This research publication is part of the book Creating empowering environments for people with dementia : addressing inclusive design from homes to cities. Summary of the whole book: This edited volume addresses the environments that exacerbate, exclude, and stigmatise those living with dementia to explore …

Op dit moment voert URGE een project uit dat zich richt op de behoefte aan vernieuwing in democratieën ten gevolge van verstedelijking. Hun doel is het ontwikkelen van een methode die zorgprofessionals in staat stelt kwetsbare groepen in steden een stem te geven over de negatieve gevolgen van verstedelijking. …

Kwetsbaarheid in beeld: De correlatie tussen de vier meter wandeltest en de Tilburgse frailty indicator bij mensen van 65 jaar en ouder

Toepassingen voor meer kwaliteit van leven bij dementie worden weinig gebruikt in de praktijk en het onderwijs. Dit komt door de ‘implementatiekloof’. In leergemeenschappen werken partners in onderzoek, onderwijs en praktijk samen. Zij weten daarom veel over het overbruggen van de implementatiekloof. …

Maintaining the child-robot relationship after a significant break, such as a holiday, is an important step for developing sustainable social robots for education. We ran a four-session user study (n = 113 children) that included a nine-month break between the third and fourth session. During the study, …

Introduction: The new concept of ‘living well with dementia’ is currently gaining traction in practice, policy, and research. However, people with dementia and their carers’ own understanding of this concept has not received much scholarly attention. This is because empirical studies into living well …

Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) is often framed as an example of a broader practice known as Virtual Exchange (VE). The term Virtual Exchange has increasingly been used as an attempt to unify a fragmented field of Higher Education practice and is often used interchangeably with the …

More women are attending university than ever before and a quarter of the world’s top universities have appointed a female president, but research shows that female academics are being pushed out of academia and are evaluated lower than male lecturers, which could stifle their careers. So what’s the …

As societal discussions around housing and immigration continue to heat up in the Netherlands, internationalisation has found itself caught in the crossfire. Against a backdrop of changing policies and public sentiment, Simone Hackett of The Hague University of Applied Sciences invited one domestic student …

Collaborative learning is not a new teaching and learning approach; it has been around since the 1970s and is an evidence-based practice that has been proven to be effective time after time. Therefore, instead of reinventing the wheel or only relying on best practices or anecdotal evidence of what works …