Discussions about the importance of the built environment for healthcare delivery extend at least as far back as Hippocrates 1 (400 BC). The iconic Florence Nightingale (1859) also strongly believed in the influence the indoor environment has on the progress of disease and recovery. Today, the role of …

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 …

Achtergrond: Dehydroepiandrosteron (afgekort DHEA), ook wel prasteron genoemd, is een prohormoon dat wordt aangemaakt in de bijnierschors en in kleinere hoeveelheden in de testis en het ovarium. De DHEA productie daalt naar mate de mens ouder wordt en een aanvulling van het DHEA zou mogelijk het verouderingsproces …

In recent years, the effects of the physical environment on the healing process and well-being have proved to be increasingly relevant for patients and their families (PF) as well as for healthcare staff. The discussions focus on traditional and institutionally designed healthcare facilities (HCF) relative …

Purpose – The purposes of this paper are to 1) give an overview of the prevalence of HR practices that are used to retain vital older workers in health organizations, 2) to examine the evaluations of those HR practices, and 3) to determine the wishes for HR practices in three different target groups: …

Patients in hospitals and nursing homes are at risk of the development of, often preventable, adverse events (AEs), which threaten patient safety. Guidelines for prevention of many types of AEs are available, however, compliance with these guidelines appears to be lacking. Besides general barriers that …