Older care recipients living at home increasingly rely on support from informal caregivers. As informal caregivers often combine these caregiving tasks with other tasks, such as paid work, they are at risk of becoming overloaded. To decrease informal caregiver burden, diferent forms of support are available …

Human beings are, above all, narrative creatures, extremely sensitive to good stories. The (implicit) stories of futurologists have their own characteristic structure, when they outline what our future full of technology will look like. One element of their narrative structure is often that the speaker, …

Background the efficacy and outcomes of geriatric rehabilitation (GR) have previously been investigated. However, a systematic synthesis of the aspects that are important to patients regarding the quality of GR does not exist. Objective the aim of this scoping review was to systematically synthesise …

In deze openbare les benoemt Dominique Sluijsmans enkele uitgangspunten die voor het lectoraat leidend zijn bij het versterken van de curriculumkwaliteit binnen Hogeschool Rotterdam en die als fundament dienen voor de doelen en activiteiten in de komende jaren. Ze zal benadrukken dat curriculumontwikkeling …

"Objectives: Research on what matters most to people with dementia is crucial for developing tailored interventions and support. This study explored how people with dementia experience their everyday lives, providing insight into what is important to them to live the best they can at home. Methods: Inspired …

Innovations in digital storytelling techniques have spurred on the development of new journalistic and audience practices. The production processes of interactive and immersive journalistic narratives are highly technological and require specialist knowledge of both journalism and design, and require …

Story from the project Land-shapes, Sooth-scapes for a publication of VU Amsterdam presented at COP28 in Dubai 2023.

Inleiding: Dit artikel beschrijft een casestudy naar de narratieve vaardigheden van dove- en slechthorende kinderen met een CI, in de leeftijdsgroep van 6 tot 10 jaar. Het doel van dit onderzoek is het meten van de vooruitgang van de narratieve vaardigheden. Hierin wordt onderscheid gemaakt tussen de …

Background: Children with asthma can decrease the impact of their disease by improving their physical activity (PA). However, health care providers lack interventions for children with asthma that effectively increase their PA levels and achieve behavior change. A technology-supported approach can positively …

The purpose of this thesis is to find a solution to the absence of a story and the lack of cohesion in the Spider Tanks game. A narrative has been created to build the world of the game in order to ensure consistent design decisions, which in turn leads to visual consistency. The product uses embedded …