Om de ambities van burgerparticipatie waar te kunnen maken is diversiteit van de deelnemers een belangrijke voorwaarde. Tegelijkertijd is uitsluiting van groepen burgers, waaronder kritische burgers, onlosmakelijk verbonden met burgerparticipatie. In dit artikel in de serie ‘Lokale democratie doorgelicht’ …

Health symptoms may be influenced, supported, or even controlled via a lighting control system which includes personal lighting conditions and personal factors (health characteristics). In order to be effective, this lighting control system requires both continuous information on the lighting and health …

Purpose – Older people with dementia (OPD) have specific housing and technology-related needs, for which various design principles exist. A model for designing environments and its constituting items for people with dementia that has a firm foundation in neurology may help guide designers in making design …

Mastering academic language (AL) by elementary school students is important for achieving school success. The extent to which teachers play a role in stimulating students’ AL development may differ. Two types of AL stimulating behavior are distinguished: aimed at students’ understanding and at triggering …

Het nieuws van de afgelopen jaren laat zien dat de huidige (inter)nationale onderzoeksomgeving gekenmerkt wordt door een toename van ongepaste data-manipulatie, -analyses en plagiaat. Het is belangrijk te weten dat bovengenoemde misstappen soms met de beste bedoelingen worden gemaakt. Juist onderzoekers …

More and more seniors are using computers and smartphones on a regular basis. However, research shows that many seniors are only using a small number of the apps available to them, in contrast to younger adults. The current study aims to explore reasons for this selective use of apps by seniors.

Bed-ridden nursing home residents are in need of environments which are homelike and facilitate the provision of care. Design guidance for this group of older people is limited. This study concerned the exploration and generation of innovative environmental enrichment scenarios for bed-ridden residents. …

De algemene gezondheidstoestand van de bevolking wordt veelal gemeten met de RAND-36 item Health Survey. De afkorting RAND verwijst naar de Amerikaanse onderzoeksorganisatie voor ‘Research and Development’ die de vragenlijst ontwikkelde. In 2012 is door Fontys en partners een longitudinaal veldonderzoek …

BACKGROUND: Loneliness is expected to become an even bigger social problem in the upcoming decades, because of the growing number of older adults. It has been argued that the use of social network sites can aid in decreasing loneliness and improving mental health. The purpose of this study was to examine …