In light of current worldwide developments, the conference theme “Value Diversity” explicitly refers to the changes we need to see. This contribution is about Life expectancy of people with a severe or profound intellectual disability. Their life expectancy increases, which contributes to the risk of …

Inter-organizational arrangements that aim to address social and environmental “grand challenges” often take the form of multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSIs) (also cross-sector partnerships or collaborations). Grand challenges -- problems characterized by knowledge uncertainty, dynamic complexity and …

The research justification report shows to what extent can Trinseo strengthen company culture in a hybrid workplace post-COVID. This research topic is part of ‘Organisation & People’ theme in the Working and Management tools (TWM22-TWM23). There are five information gaps that were formulated: 1. Company …

This article presents seven actions to owner-managers of SMEs about what they should do on the sales side to get their companies and their customers through the crisis. The overarching theme is not to wait but to get into action!

The Nedap Healthcare business unit is developing a mobile wound recognition solution named Vesalius using Kotlin, Python and tools / libraries such as Anaconda and TensorFlow Lite in order to utilize machine learning to determine the boundary of a wound as bitmap based on its picture.This solution is …

Aim The aim of this study is to explore patients’ and (in)formal caregivers’ perspectives on their role(s) and contributing factors in the course of unplanned hospital readmission of older cardiac patients in the Cardiac Care Bridge (CCB) program. Design This study is a qualitative multiple case study …

Paper presentation on (the importance of) informal social work, based on research on this theme by the Department of Urban Social Work in the past years in New West Amsterdam and South east Amsterdam.

Democracy is still organized according to an ancient model. Democracy has become a tradition where populists feel at home. Real politicians (game changers) must also dress up as puppets, so that they too can enter the populist political puppet show with one-liners and clinchers during election time. Technology …

Despite increased healthcare extramuralisation, related to increased elderly patients living at home, most nursing students still see the hospital as career favourite. This is problematic, because of the widespread labour-market shortages in community care in many Western countries. At the Amsterdam …

Imagery Rehearsal Therapy (IRT) is effective for trauma-related nightmares and is also a challenge to patients in finding access to their traumatic memories, because these are saved in non-verbal, visual, or audiovisual language. Art therapy (AT) is an experiential treatment that addresses images rather …