Background: Pain assessment is a necessary step in pain management in older people in palliative care. In older people, pain assessment can be challenging due to underreporting and atypical pain manifestations by other distressing symptoms. Anxiety, fatigue, loss of appetite, insomnia, dyspnoea, and …

Schrijven met de hand is belangrijk. Uit wetenschappelijk onderzoek blijkt dat kinderen beter en sneller leren lezen als ze de letters leren schrijven met de hand. Oudste kleuters die de papier- en pentaken leuk vinden, doen ze vaker en worden er beter in. Zo kunnen ze met voldoende bagage starten met …

Sybil Mourmans, een ervaren ergotherapeut, heeft opgemerkt dat veel cliënten een sterke affiniteit hebben met spiritualiteit. Hoewel ergotherapeuten spiritualiteit belangrijk vinden, blijkt uit onderzoek dat het vaak niet wordt geïntegreerd vanwege praktijkcontext en gebrek aan kennis. De definitie van …

An important performance determinant in wheelchair sports is the power exchanged between the athlete wheelchair combination and the environment, in short, mechanical power. Inertial measurement units (IMUs) might be used to estimate the exchanged mechanical power during wheelchair sports practice. However, …

BACKGROUND:Knowledge on long-term participation is scarce for patients with paid employment at the time of stroke. OBJECTIVE:Describe the characteristics and the course of participation (paid employment and overall participation) in patients who did and did not remain in paid employment. METHODS:Patients …

Echo intensity determined by muscle ultrasound has been proposed as an efficient method for the assessment of muscle quality. The influence of changing ultrasound parameter settings on echo intensity values was assessed using a standardized approach. In this repeated measures cross-sectional study, sixteen …

The global agenda to move societies towards a more sustainable course of development also affects the lives of older people in our ageing populations. Therefore, it is important to understand the drivers, intentions and behaviours concerning sustainability among older adults. The aim of this study is …

The aim of this study was to gain insight into the visual functioning of children with profound intellectuual and multiple disabilities (PIMD). A mixed methods study was performed, determining cross-sectional quantitative ophthalmological/orthoptic data, and qualitative observational data with a standardized …

To prepare medical students appropriately for the management of toxicological emergencies, we have developed a simulation-based medical education (SBME) training in acute clinical toxicology. Our aim is to report on the feasibility, evaluation and lessons learned of this training. Since 2019, each year …