Ageing-in-place is the preferred way of living for older individuals in an ageing society. It can be facilitated through architectural and technological solutions in the home environment. Dementia poses additional challenges when designing, constructing, or retrofitting housing facilities that support …

Ageing-in-place is the preferred way of living for older individuals in an ageing society. It can be facilitated through architectural and technological solutions in the home environment. Dementia poses additional challenges when designing, constructing, or retrofitting housing facilities that support …

The design of healthcare facilities is a complex and dynamic process, which involves many stakeholders each with their own set of needs. In the context of healthcare facilities, this complexity exists at the intersection of technology and society because the very design of these buildings forces us to …

Workshop on new hospital Mortiere

Met voor de komende decennia enerzijds de vergrijzing anderzijds de krimp voor ogen proberen gemeenten, woningbouwverenigingen en zorginstellingen de juiste combinaties voor hun levensloopbestendige bestaande en nieuwe wijken te maken ten aanzien van wonen, zorg en service. De juiste combinaties, maar …

Vastgoedpartijen die investeren in zorggericht vastgoed overzien regelmatig niet waaraan ze beginnen en wat bij deze investeringen de succesfactoren zijn. En dat terwijl dat juist nu zo hard nodig is, omdat AWBZ budgetten krimpen en marktwerking zijn intrede doet. Een goed voorbeeld daarvan is het beleggen …

In order to be able to age in place, Dutch elderly are being housed in Assisted Living Facilities (ALFs) for over 25 years. Here they can live independently and rely on care and services. The physical scale of ALFs ranges from 30 up to 300 residents. This paper presents the findings of a multiple case …

Het is algemeen bekend dat architectuur en derhalve de gebouwde woonomgeving ons dagelijkse leven en welzijn beïnvloedt, zowel in directe als indirecte zin. We kennen in de bouwwereld allemaal de tekening van Leonardo da Vinci, de ‘Vitruviusman’, inzake de ‘menselijke maat’ zoals beschreven door Vitruvius. …

We present a novel method to achieve light trapping in thin film silicon solar cells. Unlike the commonly used surface textures, such as Asahi U-type TCO, that rely on light scattering phenomena, we employ embossed periodically arranged micro-pyramidal structures with feature sizes much larger than the …

The worldwide obesity epidemic is a major and complex problem, resulting from the interaction of individual metabolic, genetic, and psychological factors with meso- and macro environmental factors. Adolescents, with their rapid changes in body composition, together with their shift in orientation from …