Undernutrition is a common problem in Dutch older people and may cause increased length of hospitalization, early institutionalization and decreased quality of life. This cross-sectional study aimed to examine the prevalence of nutrition risk among older people living in the community of Woerden.

Inleiding: Zowel veroudering als de toenemende prevalentie overgewicht en obesitas vergroten de kans op morbiditeit en verhogen de zorgkosten. De inname van voldoende fruit, groente en vis lijkt bij te dragen aan de preventie van bepaalde ziekten en aandoeningen waaronder overgewicht en obesitas. Nederlandse …

Oost-Groningen is een gebied met traditioneel veel leerlingen met taalachterstanden. Recent reviewonderzoek heeft dat nog eens bevestigd. Inmiddels is veel bekend over de achtergronden van taalachterstanden. Desondanks stagneert de achterstandsbestrijding in deze regio. In deze bijdrage wordt getracht …

Aimforthemoon, a collective of young entrepreneurs who start ventures and carry out business development projects for experience entrepreneurs, was looking for an effective and focused brand identity as a way to structure their marketing and communication strategy. Using the archetypal theory of Carol …

Conducting research as part of a PhD study offers students a unique opportunity to explore new methods and methodologies. Although we each based our PhD studies on a more traditional participatory action research (PAR) methodology, we also took the opportunity to experiment with a new data analysis method. …

The strengths of design-based research (DBR from now on) is that it teststheories in the real word of practice and in doing so generates newknowledge and artifacts useful to both the scientist and the practitioner.However, DBR’s strength might also be considered its weakness; becausethe research takes …

OBJECTIVE: Our aim was to determine whether the impact of upward and downward social comparison information on individuals' motivation to manage their diabetes is dependent on their regulatory focus (promotion or prevention focus) and self-efficacy. DESIGN: The hypotheses were examined in a cross-sectional …

Communities of Practice (CoPs) are social learning systems that can be, to a certain extent, designed. Wenger (1998) proposes the following paradox; “ no community can fully design the learning of another, but at the same time, no community can fully design its own learning” (p:234). My interpretation …

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