This study will examine whether voluntary work or an internship in a developing country contributes to the development of global citizenship among young people. For the purpose of this study, global citizenship will be defined as a combination of social awareness and possessing international competencies. …

“Most people have known someone in their life who helped them, at just the right moment, to realize their goals or have given them the confidence, which they lacked, to get to the next step in their life.” (Joost van Rossum, 2012)

The nursing home is often a final stage in the living career of older persons, but the question remains whether it is a true home or merely a place where care is provided for the residents. This study investigates the sense of home and its constituent factors among both permanent and temporary residents …

The owners of Restaurant Opium are using several types of media to communicate to their audience. Right now they do not know how they can use social media. Social media is a very popular marketing tool for businesses. For restaurants it is especially useful as it can be used to engage customers and to …

Introduction Nutrition is an important determinant in maintaining health and functionality in older people. Undernutrition is still a common problem in Dutch older people and is related to increased length of stay in hospitals, early institutionalization, decreased quality of life and possibly contributes …

'… En ieder zingt zijn eigen lied...': personhood, singing in a choir and dementia. In the book 'Dementia Reconsidered' (1997) Tom Kitwood formulates what the point of departure should be with regard to the care for people with dementia: the safeguarding of someone's personhood by fulfilling the five …

Service design is literally the design of services. Service designers improve existing services or design completely new ones. Nothing new so far. Services have been around for centuries, and every service was conceived and designed by someone. However, service design takes a different angle; a different …

The Elimschool in Rijssen is a school for special primary education. At the Elimschool a few observations have been done. The observations during the gym lessons and psychomotricity give the impression that the children of the Elimschool should get more attention to their body experience. Emck and Bosscher …

In this paper I describe the ways in which the communication discipline can make a hidden crisis transparent. For this purpose I examine the concept of crisis entrepreneurship from a communication point of view. Using discourse analysis, I analyse the discursive practices of crisis entrepreneurs in the …

Ever since the start of the Italian Republic in 1946, the Italian political system seems to have experienced instability. It has had more than 60 governments in a 60 year period. In 1992, the political system collapsed and that which external factors attempted to achieve in the 1960s until the 1980s …