"Background: Victimization is highly prevalent in individuals with mild intellectual disability (MID) or borderline intellectual functioning (BIF) and is an important risk factor for mental health problems and violent behavior. Not much is known, however, about victimization history in women with MID-BIF …

Background: There is a lack of theory-based interventions for direct support professionals (DSPs) to support a healthy lifestyle for people with moderate to profound intellectual disabilities (ID) despite their major role in this. This study aims to evaluate the preparation, implementation, and preliminary …

Background: For a healthy lifestyle, people with moderate, severe, and profound intellectual disabilities living in residential facilities and/or participating in day activity centers are dependent on their direct support professionals. However, it is unclear what knowledge and skills these direct support …

The global pandemic has stressed the value of working remotely, also in higher education. This development sparks the growing use of telepresence robots, which allow students with prolonged sickness to interact with other students and their teacher remotely. Although telepresence robots are developed …

Zorggroep Alliade biedt zorg en ondersteuning aan meer dan 7.000 mensen met een verstandelijke beperking (VB) en kwetsbare ouderen in Friesland. Zorggroep Alliade bestaat uit een aantal zorgonderdelen waarvan Talant (gehandicaptenzorg) en Meriant (ouderenzorg) de bekendste zijn. Naast het verlenen van …

In light of current worldwide developments, the conference theme “Value Diversity” explicitly refers to the changes we need to see. This contribution is about Life expectancy of people with a severe or profound intellectual disability. Their life expectancy increases, which contributes to the risk of …

Background: Behaviour change techniques (BCTs) can be employed to support a healthy lifestyle for people with intellectual disabilities. The aim of this study is to determine whether and which BCTs are used by direct support professionals (DSPs) for supporting healthy lifestyle behaviour of people with …

Een gezonde leefstijl geeft voor mensen met een verstandelijke beperking grote potentiële gezondheidswinst en meer mogelijkheden tot participatie in de maatschappij. Mensen met een verstandelijke beperking hebben voor een gezonde leefstijl ondersteuning nodig van professionele begeleiders en een gezonde …

Background: The support of people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities (PIMD) rarely focused on motor activity, which might have negative consequences for the quality of life of these people. Evidence-based motor activity programs that present individually tailored and structural motor …