Abstract: Disability is associated with lower quality of life and premature death in older people. Therefore, prevention and intervention targeting older people living with a disability is important. Frailty can be considered a major predictor of disability. In this study, we aimed to develop nomograms …

Is het wenselijk dat professionals die huiselijk geweld of kindermishandeling hebben meegemaakt, hun ervaringen inzetten in het werken met cliënten met vergelijkbare problematiek? Cliënten en (aankomend) professionals in ons onderzoek denken hier positief over. Zij menen dat dit van meerwaarde is voor …

Dit artikel benadrukt het belang van historisch redeneren als onderdeel van het geschiedenisonderwijs in Nederland: geschiedenis gaat namelijk niet alleen over jaartallen en gebeurtenissen, maar over het leren nadenken en redeneren aan de hand van historische bronnen.

This special edition on coexisting with reptiles (guest edited by Dr Simon Pooley) highlights our deep cultural connection with biodiversity, including the scaly, slithering kind. Moving away from Eurocentric narratives of coexistence, the articles in this issue acknowledge the tolerance of local people …

Educational policies in the Netherlands reveal that the current mainstream participatory approach to citizenship education jeopardises students’ autonomy. Especially in Dutch post-secondary vocational education, citizenship education has been shown to be mainly aimed at socialization: initiating students …

Dit is de onderzoeksrapportage van 4,5 jaar onderwijsonderzoek naar kritisch burgerschapsonderwijs in het mbo. In dit rapport wordt gereflecteerd op het onderzoeksproces en de onderzoeksresultaten. Dit bestaat uit theoretisch onderzoek, praktijkonderzoek naar formatieve toetsing en de werkwijze van de …

Solomon Islands has relied on highly unsustainable industrial logging since the 1980s. While the development narrative around logging emphasizes its macro-economic importance, it structurally overlooks the impacts on local people's lives. Based on 200 qualitative interviews conducted in 25 villages and …

Abstract Background: COVID-19 was first identified in December 2019 in the city of Wuhan, China. The virus quickly spread and was declared a pandemic on March 11, 2020. After infection, symptoms such as fever, a (dry) cough, nasal congestion, and fatigue can develop. In some cases, the virus causes severe …

Abstract BackgroundFrailty is a syndrome that is defined as an accumulation of deficits in physical, psychological, and social domains. On a global scale, there is an urgent need to create frailty-ready healthcare systems due to the healthcare burden that frailty confers on systems and the increased …

Abstract: Nurses come into frequent contact with frail older people in all healthcare settings. However, few studies have specifically asked nurses about their views on frailty. The main aim of this study was to explore the opinions of nurses working with older people on the concept of frailty, regardless …