Creative arts engagement has been shown to be related to maintaining wellbeing in older adulthood (Tymoszuk et al., 2019). For people living with dementia, music can be engaging and rewarding (Baird & Thompson, 2018), and is often presented as a therapeutic activity. It is theorised that music’s capacity …

Upcycling has been embraced by circular economy enthusiasts, policy-makers and collaborative initiatives across Europe. Early studies describe upcycling as a concept aimed at resource conservation by keeping products, components and materials at their highest potential value across consecutive product …

De wachtlijsten voor de geestelijke gezondheidszorg (ggz) worden steeds langer. In het Integraal Zorgakkoord van september 2022 staat een belangrijke doelstelling voor de ggz: eind 2026 is de gemiddelde wachttijd voor iedere zorgvraag maximaal vijf weken. Om dit doel te bereiken moet er volgens meerdere …

Societal challenges are urgent and affect everyone, including politicians, citizens, government officials, business professionals, NGOs, designers and researchers. Understanding and addressing these challenges is difficult because no single stakeholder or organisation is solely responsible. Everything …

Longitudinal Business Process Management (BPM) studies are rare. BPM maturity and process performance can be used to quantify an organization's BPM evolution. This research aims to examine the growth of BPM maturity over time and its impact on process performance inside an organization in continuous …

Honger is nog steeds een wereldwijd probleem, terwijl iedereen genoeg te eten zou hebben als we het beschikbare voedsel goed zouden verdelen en benutten, en het niet zouden verspillen. Maar alleen al in Nederland gooien we ruim 33 kilo voedsel per persoon per jaar weg. Dat moet anders! Door voedsel …

Patients on general wards are at risk of complications, often associated with deviations in vital signs. Unfortunately, the currently used manual method of intermittently measuring vital signs is not optimal, potentially leading to late recognition and treatment of complications, and sometimes with serious …

More awareness is needed in food service and culinary schools for the effect of the chefs’ smoking behavior on their salt use. Smoking is known to affect taste perception. Restaurant dishes are often high in salt and smoking might play a role in this. We show that prevalence of smoking among Dutch chefs …

Hoofdstuk 7 in: De brede basis van het sociaal werk: grondslagen, methoden en praktijken. Marcel Spierts, Ard Sprinkhuizen, Marc Hoijtink, Ed de Jonge, Lia van Doorn (red.). Bussum: Coutinho, 2023 (2e herz. dr.)

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly used in the media industry, for instance, for the automatic creation, personalization, and distribution of media content. This development raises concerns in society and the media sector itself about the responsible use of AI. This study examines how different …