The purpose is to give an overview of the extent, range and nature of existing definitions of the concept ‘ageing in place’. Providing such an overview may be helpful, for policy makers, researchers, communities and service providers, to make sense of the versatility and uses of the concept, and allow …

As up until this point, only little attention was paid to smaller suburbs within the revitalization process of bigger cities in times of the experience economy, awareness needs to be raised towards the need of revitalization of underused places within small suburbs to hinder people from moving away. Thus …

Elk jaar organiseert het Leerhuis van het Projectmanagementbureau samen met de Hogeschool van Amsterdam een thematische seminarreeks. De koppeling van de wetenschappelijke theorie met de dagelijkse praktijk biedt een waardevolle verdieping van de kennis van de medewerkers van het Projectmanagementbureau. …

In het verleden is het percentage hanen bij de hennen verhoogt om de bevruchting en uitkomst van de broedeieren te stimuleren. Uit eerder onderzoek blijkt dat het paargedrag van de dieren dikwijls ruw verloopt. Door gebruik te maken van het Quality Time systeem zijn de effecten van het nieuwe LAT (Living …

BACKGROUND: Consideration of older adults' quality of life (QoL) is becoming increasingly important in the evaluation, quality improvement and allocation of health and social care services. While numerous definitions and theories of QoL have been proposed, an overall synthesis of the perspective of older …

Uit peilingsonderzoek komt naar voren dat de vaardigheid van de leerlingen achteruit is gegaan ten opzichte van 2006. Ondanks de toename van sportlidmaatschap lijkt het erop dat steeds minder kinderen voldoen aan de beweegnorm van 1 uur per dag matig tot intensief bewegen. In dit artikel worden zes uitdagingen …

This project started with a fascination by the concept of ‘feeling at home’. How does that work for homeless who don’t have a physical space to call home? To me, my role as an architect is to put social issues on the agenda and investigate spatial circular solutions. Even in our modern society, homelessness …

This entry begins by reviewing the definitions of “human”, “environment” and “dichotomy”, consequently turning to the debates concerning the human–environment relationship. Synthesizing various studies, the capability of advanced tool use; language, hyper-sociality, advanced cognition, morality, civilization, …

This book discusses the way that a nature-driven approach to urbanism can be applied at each of the urban scales; architectural design, urban design of neighborhoods, city planning and landscape architecture, and at the city and regional scales. At all levels nature-driven approaches to design and planning …

The increase of people living with chronic conditions has compelled society to develop and implement strategies that promote collaboration between patients and healthcare professionals, and which provide the patients with an active role in their care. In order to accomplish this, the World Health Organization, …