Social needs are important basic human needs; when not satisfied, loneliness and social isolation can occur and subsequently sickness or even premature death. For older people social needs can be more difficult to satisfy be­cause of the loss of resources such as health and mobility. Interventions for …

Some people are better at looking at things from a wider perspective than others – they can think outside the box. Individuals, companies and organizations strive for continuity to provide basic safety. Innovation is crucial to survive in the modern world. Sometimes we need to be quick and exploit new …

Most people in The Netherlands have access to high quality palliative care—multidisciplinary total care aimed at patients’ quality of life when patients have limited life expectancies. All nurses and generalist physicians receive at least basic palliative care training. Nursing home staff is also well …

The amount of safety related knowledge that the crewmembers of SPV Royal Clipper have, is questioned. More than it should be, crewmembers are unable to answer the basic questions about safety. This is basic knowledge, that should be known from the moment the crewmember have concluded the familiarization …

This chapter includes the brief description about the background of the problem, the actual problem statement. Out of this problem statement the research question was drawn, and the sub-questions were created. The chapter ends with the objective and expected results of this research proposal and a bookmark …

In the wake of neo-liberal informed global trends to set performance standards and intensify accountability, the Dutch government aimed for ‘raising standards for basic skills’. While the implementation of literacy standards was hardly noticed, the introduction of numeracy standards caused a major backlash …

Dit onderzoek is uitgevoerd in opdracht van de organisatie HLTsamen. Dit is een werkorganisatie van de gemeenten Hillegom, Lisse en Teylingen. Het doel van dit onderzoek is om op de juiste wijze een identiteit te creëren die past bij de organisatie en de medewerkers. Binnen het onderzoek staat de volgende …

Treatment motivation in secure residential youth care is assumed to be a necessary condition for effective treatment, and is therefore a key element in the reduction of problem behavior and criminal recidivism. According to Self-Determination Theory (SDT) three basic psychological needs (autonomy, competence …

Bryophytes are small, haploid, non-vascular plants, which can be divided in three distinct phyla; the mosses (Musci), the liverworts (Hepaticae) and the hornworts (Anthocerotae) (Gradstein & Melick, 1996), (Touw, Kruijer, & Stech, 2016). They are valuable indicators of environmental chance, due to the …

Vanuit het cliënttevredenheidsonderzoek (Triqs, 2016) is naar voren gekomen dat de communicatie tussen hulpverlener en cliënt gemiddeld lager scoort, maar nog wel voldoende. De opdrachtgever vanuit Stichting Back to Basic Twente wil deze verbetering creëren door middel van het opkomende eHealth. Dit …