Abstract Background: Healthcare organizations supporting individuals with Intellectual Disabilities (ID) carry out a range of interventions to support and improve a healthy lifestyle. However, it is difficult to implement an active and healthy lifestyle into daily support. The presence of numerous intervention …

De complexe problematiek van multiprobleemgezinnen vraagt van hulpverleners om intensieve samenwerking in de keten. De gemeente Oldambt kent een groot aantal van deze gezinnen en ook binnen het Ommelander Ziekenhuis Groningen heeft het maatschappelijk werk hier veel ervaring mee. De ketenpartners waarmee …

In de, per 2015, ingevoerde zorgwetten is meer aandacht voor preventie. Preventie beoogt problemen minder groot te laten worden of zelfs te voorkomen. Steeds meer wetenschappelijk onderzoek beveelt aan om meer aan preventie te doen. De verantwoording om dit uit te voeren ligt nu grotendeels bij gemeenten …

Chronic illness affects a person’s wellbeing and affects the ability to perform the social roles of spouse or parent. When working with people with long-lasting mental or somatic illnesses, social workers and nurses are confronted with needs for support, especially for parents. Although programs are …

One might expect that a perception of obesity being a risk factor and disease, contributes to effective obesity prevention and management strategies. However, obesity rates continue to increase worldwide. The question arises whether obesity is truly perceived as a risk factor and a disease. This paper …

Abstract: Due to rapidly aging human populations, frailty has become an essential concept, as it identifies older people who have higher risk of adverse outcomes, such as disability, institutionalization, lower quality of life, and premature death. The Tilburg Frailty Indicator (TFI) is a user-friendly …

BACKGROUND: In The Netherlands, one out of six Dutch employees has informal care tasks; in the hospital and healthcare sector, this ratio is one out of four workers. Informal carers experience problems with the combination of work and informal care. In particular, they have problems with the burden of …

Background and aim Self-management support is an integral part of current chronic care guidelines. The success of self-management interventions varies between individual patients, suggesting a need for tailored self-management support. Understanding the role of patient factors in the current decision …

The European core competence framework for health and social care professionals working with older people. Presentation in a parallel session - on this European Nursing Conference

Background The sense of home of nursing home residents is a multifactorial phenomenon which is important for the quality of living. This purpose of this study is to investigate the factors influencing the sense of home of older adults residing in the nursing home from the perspective of residents, relatives …