In the project “Fieldlabs, 21st Century community care”, directed by ROC of Amsterdam, 17 partners in care, education, local authorities, technology providers and research institutes collaborate in the Amsterdam region. Fieldlabs aims to innovate education in care, in order to make it ‘21st century proof’. …

Corona geen invloed op overstap naar andere zorgverzekeraar: het gaat om de prijs. Zo’n een op de tien inwoners uit Noord-Nederland geeft aan vrijwel zeker over te willen stappen naar een andere zorgverzekeraar. Het motief is vrij plat: het is goedkoper. Dat blijkt uit een onderzoek van Marklinq (onderzoeksgroep …

The assessment of care in homecare today is complex. Nurses have to decide on care for clients with multiple health problems. Technological innovations promise solutions for support of self-management of older people. We do not know, however, how and when nurses assess eHealth. A qualitative study design …

Koploper in digitalisering. Zo wordt Nederland ook wel genoemd. Ruim 94% van alle Nederlanders maakt gebruik van internetdiensten (Ministerie van Economische Zaken, Landbouw en Innovatie, 2020). Dat is bijna de gehele bevolking. Toch blijft er één sector achter. Namelijk de zorgsector. En deze waarheid …

The introduction of consumer-grade virtual reality (VR) headsets has led to new and engaging methods for physical rehabilitation. Not only does VR provide the means to bring everyday situations into the rehabilitation therapy, and thereby help their transition into rehabilitation throughout everyday …

From the moment we set our first steps we practise walking until it eventually becomes second nature. However, due to injury, illness, or disease, someone might lose control over this automated task. In these cases, physical therapy is often used to help restore a patient’s use of muscles and train a …

Het eerste doel is het evalueren en verbeteren van machine learning algoritmes voor insulineadviezen voor jongeren met diabetes type 1. Het tweede doel is het ontwikkelen van een kennisbank met geanonimiseerde datasets ten behoeve van de opleiding HBO-ICT. Studenten kunnen hiermee praktijkervaring opdoen …

In mental healthcare, blended care (online combined with face to face treatment) is presented as a mundane practice. Most mental health care organizations have ‘opened’ their electronic patient records for patients, as well as provided for online treatment interventions like psycho-education and cognitive …

We aim to gain a better understanding of context-specific barriers to and facilitators of implementation of integrated care by doing a retrospective assessment of seven years of Embrace. This Dutch integrated person-centred health service for older adults was based on two evidence-based models (the Chronic …

People with dementia (PwD) risk a deterioration in quality of life (QoL) as the dementia progresses. A growing number of studies show that music can increase QoL. Unfortunately, loss of initiative and problems during product-use hinder access to music. In this paper we first depict a gap in knowledge …