BACKGROUND: Paratonia is a distinctive form of hypertonia, causing loss of functional mobility in early stages of dementia to severe high muscle tone and pain in the late stages. For assessing and evaluating therapeutic interventions, objective instruments are required. OBJECTIVE: Determine the psychometric …

In indoor comfort research, thermal comfort of care-professionals in hospital environment is a little explored topic. To address this gap, a mixed methods study, with the nursing staff in hospital wards acting as participants,was undertaken. Responses were collected during three weeks in the summer (n …

Introduction: Patient education is a relatively new science within the field of health care. In the past it consisted mainly of the transfer of knowledge and mostly biomedically based advice. Research has shown this to not be effective and sometimes counterproductive. As health care has moved away from …

BACKGROUND: In the Netherlands, the scope of dental hygiene practice was expanded in 2006. The objective of this study was to explore reasons among dentists and dental hygienists for supporting or opposing an extended scope of practice and to find explanatory factors. METHODS: A questionnaire containing …

By analysing intelligence-gathering reform legislation this article discusses access to justice for communications interception by the intelligence and security services. In the aftermath of the Snowden revelations, sophisticated oversight systems for bulk communications surveillance are being established …

Herken je het ook, bij je ouders, bij cliënten op werk of wellicht ook bij jezelf? Opstaan uit de stoel wordt moeilijker, traplopen gaat haast niet meer of de deksel van de jampot openmaken blijkt onmogelijk? Het goede nieuws is dat je met veel bewegen en goede voeding veel langer sterk kunt blijven …

Being able to identify socially frail older adults is essential for designing interventions and policy and for the prediction of health outcomes, both on the level of individual older adults and of the population. The aim of the present study was to adapt the Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) to the Dutch …

Succesvol werven van deelnemers voor preventieve beweegprogramma’s is lastig. Hogeschool Leiden onderzocht wat goed en wat minder goed werkt, in nauwe samenwerking met 27 eerstelijns fysio-/oefentherapiepraktijken, TNO en de Hanzehogeschool in Groningen.