The number of families with children experiencing homelessness, seeking asylum, or fleeing domestic violence is rising globally. However, the design of family shelters often overlooks the specific needs of children. To foster innovation in creating child-friendly shelter environments, this study explores …

"This workshop will be an opportunity to experience first-hand and discuss an inclusive, hybrid (digital-physical) workshop format, empowering citizens to co-design their neighborhoods and make their voices heard in planning processes, while enabling professionals and municipalities to automatically …

Placemaking Week Europe is an annual festival that brings together 700+ placemakers, urbanists, city officials, and community leaders from across Europe and beyond. Placemaking Week Europe is created in the spirit of collaboration and inspiration and it has proven to be a vital platform to share best …

Intubated critically ill patients are susceptible to secretion accumulation because of compromised airway clearance. Various airway clearance interventions are employed to prevent complications arising from mucus retention. This Delphi study aims to collect global opinions in an international expert …

‘The living environment as lifestyle coach. Urban environment, beneficial for our health and well-being’. Our urban environment determines our health and wellbeing. Knowing this, how can we, as urban designers, use the living environment as a lifestyle coach, allowing and nudging inhabitants to choose …

Conferentieboek van de Vlaams-Nederlandse PlanDag, georganiseerd op woensdag 21 en donderdafg 22 mei 2025.

Despite decades of residence, Turkish-Dutch citizens, one of the largest immigrant groups in the Netherlands, continue to face significant disparities in health, social, and economic factors compared to native Dutch citizens. To better understand this persistent disparity, we examined the acculturation …

Our study shows a steady increase in dementia- and DHT-related publications, particularly in areas such as mobile health, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and sensor-based technologies interventions. This increase underscores the importance of systematic approaches and interdisciplinary collaborations, …

Biophilia, while often seen as a fashionable concept in design and architecture, goes well beyond being just a fad; rather, it is a necessity driven by deep human and ecological needs. In an era of rapid urbanization and increasing lifestyle-related health problems, as well as climate change and declining …

To date, a range of qualitative and mixed-methods approaches have been applied to assess the age-friendliness of cities and communities. The Age-Friendly Cities and Communities Questionnaire (AFCCQ) has been developed to fill a gap for a systematic quantitative method approach to evaluate baseline age-friendliness …