BACKGROUND: Maintaining a healthy lifestyle is important for wheelchair users' well-being, as it can have a major impact on their daily functioning. Mobile health (mHealth) apps can support a healthy lifestyle; however, these apps are not necessarily suitable for wheelchair users with spinal cord injury …

Objectives: Goal setting and motivational interviewing (MI) may increase well-being by promoting healthy behavior. Since we failed to show improved well-being in a proactive assessment service for community-dwelling older adults applying these techniques, we studied whether implementation processes could …

Verschenen in het kader van het onderzoeksgebied: 'Monitoring and Predicting on Physical Performance in Daily Life and Sports'

Artikel in Agro & Chemie over de productie van exogene ketonen in het projecten Circulaire Biopolymeren Waardeketens voor PHA en Cellulose.

The development of ‘age-friendly cities’ has become a major area of work in the field of ageing and the built environment. This movement is driven by the observation that cities are home to an ever-increasing ageing population. Over the past decade, a multitude of age-friendly initiatives have been developed …

Although social frailty has been described from a theoretical perspective, the lived experiences of older adults regarding social frailty are yet unknown. In this paper, we aim to (a) gain more in-depth insights into community-dwelling and assisted-living older adults' experiences of social frailty and …

Korte impressie van het onderzoek naar een shantykoor op de website van het LKCA - sectie "culturele praktijken in beeld"

BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a major influx of intensive care unit (ICU) admissions. Currently, there is limited knowledge on the long-term outcomes of COVID-19 ICU-survivors and the impact on family members. This study aimed to gain an insight into the long-term physical, social …

The severity of the Coronavirus pandemic resulted in lockdown and curfew implementations in different countries, including the Netherlands, in order to reduce the spread of the virus. After implementation of “hard lockdown” in the Netherlands, many young adults, among other social groups, had to face …

El objetivo principal de esta investigación es determinar la calidad de agua del Pozo de Miramar y el Río de Miramar. Se realizaron 3 idas a Miramar una visita exploratoria para aplicar una encuesta y 2 viajes para recolectar muestras de diferentes puntos estratégicos para el análisis del agua de la …