Background: Pain assessment is a necessary step in pain management in older people in palliative care. In older people, pain assessment can be challenging due to underreporting and atypical pain manifestations by other distressing symptoms. Anxiety, fatigue, loss of appetite, insomnia, dyspnoea, and …

Openbare les Els Overkamp De opbouw van deze publicatie ontvouwt zich aan de hand van de volgende thema’s. In hoofdstuk 2 licht ik toe wat wij als lectoraat onder een goed leven verstaan en in hoofdstuk 3 waarom mensen met cognitieve en psychische aandoeningen meer kans hebben dat hun kwaliteit van leven …

Challenges in keeping healthcare affordable make informal care increasingly important. It is essential to understand the context in which people provide informal care and gain insight into their wishes with regard to the division of care responsibilities. A total of 37 interviews and eight focus groups …

In recent years, Dutch authorities have attempted to shift from formal to informal care responsibilities to meet an increasing demand for care. There is a growing expectation that social and healthcare professionals will actively involve, support, and collaborate with partners, family members, and others …

Aim: To explore which factors, influencing dietary behaviour change support among patients by Dutch community nurses (CNs; nurses), are key focal points in training programmes. Background: Nurses have an important role in counselling patients towards healthier dietary behaviour to prevent or delay long-term …

The aim of this study is to investigate Dutch citizens’ care attitudes by looking at care-giving norms and citizens’ welfare state orientation and to explore to what extent these attitudes can be explained by combinations of diversity characteristics. We combined two datasets (2016 and 2018, N = 5,293) …

Aim: Informal caregivers share common experiences in providing care to someone with health and/or social needs, but at the same time their experiences differ across diverse backgrounds such as gender, age, culture, as these aspects of diversity co-shape these experiences. This scoping review aims to …

In 2015 werd in Nederland een aantal wetten ingevoerd (of gewijzigd), die samen grote invloed hebben gehad op de verantwoordelijkheid van de gemeenten voor die inwoners die op een of meer levensterreinen ondersteuning nodig hebben. In een brief van de toenmalige minister van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties, …

In this response to the article by Matt Carlson and Chris Peters, we consider the challenge that the authors deem key for journalism studies and their answer to this challenge: “realist journalism studies.” We explore what the authors mean by decentring journalism studies, by “realism,” and the reason …