Ambient monitoring systems offer great possibilities for health trend analysis in addition to anomaly detection. Health trend analysis helps care professionals to evaluate someones functional health and direct or evaluate the choice of interventions. This paper presents one case study of a person that …

Mit der Sprechstörung Poltern haben sich bisher vergleichsweise wenige Autoren auseinandergesetzt. Diese Arbeit befasst sich mit dem Thema der Prävalenz von Poltern, da bisher keine konkreten Angaben über die Auftretenswahrscheinlichkeit von Poltern in der Bevölkerung gemacht wurden (vgl. Daly, 1993; …

Norms in research ethics and regulation regarding the collection of personal data and requirements posed by the European Committee concerning Framework Program 7 research require researchers to carry out interviews under informed consent. This means that the interviewed person is informed about the goal …

Een overzicht van de rol van improvisatie in het leven en werk van de musicus. Improvisatie wordt belicht als vorm van zelfexpressie, wat voor de meeste musici van jongsaf aan een belangrijk thema is. Daarnaast wordt improvisatie belicht als middel voor expressie van 'zichzelf en de ander', zoals dat …

Background: In this review, we study the effects of dyadic psychosocial interventions focused on communitydwelling people with dementia and their family caregivers, and the relationship of the effects with intervention components of programs. Methods: A search from January 2005 to January 2012 led to …

In this study the following question will be examineted: How does the existing treatment for the eating disorder obesity within PsyQ, affect the negative body image of this patients? Body dysmorphic means what people think and feel about there bodies and what tis means for their daily doing. A negative …

Ideas about people with disabilities have evolved dramatically since the 1950s – from individuals ‘suffering from illness’ and dependent on others, to today’s credo stressing participation and social inclusion. People with a disability are considered to have capacities and bear responsibility to achieve …

Objectives: To present the results of the process evaluation of the PLAYgrounds program, using the RE-AIM framework. Design: This study provides information regarding Reach, Adoption, Implementation and Maintenance. Methods: The PLAYgrounds program promotes increasing levels of physical activity in 6–12 …

Knowing firefighters’ locations in a burning building would dramatically improve their safety. In this study from the Saxion Research Centre for Design and Technology in the Firebee project, an algorithm was developed and tested to enhance the estimation of a person’s location, based on inertial measurements …

Introduction: Primary care has a central role in integrating care within a health system. However, conceptual ambiguity regarding integrated care hampers a systematic understanding. This paper proposes a conceptual framework that combines the concepts of primary care and integrated care, in order to …