Background: According to the principles of Reablement, home care services are meant to be goal-oriented, holistic and person-centred taking into account the capabilities and opportunities of older adults. However, home care services traditionally focus on doing things for older adults rather than with …

Background: A feasible and reliable instrument to measure strength in persons with severe intellectual and visual disabilities (SIVD) is lacking. The aim of our study was to determine feasibility, learning period and reliability of three strength tests. Methods: Twenty-nine participants with SIVD performed …

Na het energiegebruik voor apparatuur is verlichting vaak de belangrijkste energiepost van industriegebouwen, dus bij verduurzaming van industriegebouwen speelt verlichting een belangrijke rol. Vervanging van traditionele (tl-)verlichting door led levert vaak 50 tot 70% besparing op. Daarbij is diezelfde …

Background: The objective of this study was to derive evidence-based physical activity guidelines for the general Dutch population. Methods: Two systematic reviews were conducted of English language meta-analyses in PubMed summarizing separately randomized controlled trials and prospective cohort studies …

Mensen met een licht verstandelijke beperking hebben ook recht op een gezonde levensstijl. Om dit te kunnen realiseren is het van belang dat men erachter komt waar de obstakels liggen als het gaat om het structureel aan houden van een gezonde levensstijl. Het doel van dit onderzoek was om te achterhalen …

OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to improve medication safety for children; it is important to quantify the occurrence of preventable medication errors (MEs). A trigger tool may be an effective and time-saving strategy, but its measurement performance is unclear. Therefore, we aimed to estimate …

This article explores the challenges local youth workers face at the intersection of providing social care and detecting violent extremism. Extremism and other radical ideologies are often assumed to be a harbinger of terrorism. Even though both are still a rare phenomenon among adolescents, European …

De maatschappij vraagt in toenemende mate om gegevens die de werkzaamheid en het effect van vaktherapie aantonen. Tevens is er – vooral vanuit de beroepsgroepen – een vraag naar het expliciteren van de werkingsmechanismen van de vaktherapieën. Een bijdrage aan het beantwoorden van beide vragen kan op …

Purpose: To provide insight on the effect of wheelchair settings on wheelchair mobility performance (WMP). Methods: Twenty elite wheelchair basketball athletes of low (n = 10) and high classification (n = 10) were tested in a wheelchair-basketball-directed field test. Athletes performed the test in their …

Purpose: Classification is a defining factor for competition in wheelchair sports, but it is a delicate and time-consuming process with often questionable validity. New inertial sensor-based measurement methods applied in match play and field tests allow for more precise and objective estimates of the …