The aim of this longitudinal qualitative interview study (3 waves of interviews) was to examine the nature of older workers’ late career decision-making processes, including the main drivers and obstacles for prolonging working life or retiring. Late career decision-making is regarded as a process of …

Purpose – The aim of this survey study among N=180 Dutch teachers was to examine the moderating role of calendar age and proactive personality in the relationships between developmental opportunities, on the one hand, and work engagement and self-perceived employability, on the other. The paper aims …

Purpose – The aim of this survey study among N=180 Dutch teachers was to examine the moderating role of calendar age and proactive personality in the relationships between developmental opportunities, on the one hand, and work engagement and self-perceived employability, on the other. The paper aims …

In recent years there has been a noticeable change in how people book their holiday. In the past traditional travel agencies were the places go, with offline stores and direct face-to-face contact with experienced travel agents. Nowadays, however, the internet plays an important role for companies to …

Urban Expression seeks to plant exciting, grass-roots, transformative ways of being church in inner city neighbourhoods. In doing this they work from a set of values, one of which describes faith as a journey. This essay looks at how this value is worked out in three English Urban Expression churches, …

Purpose: Self-management has become an important concept in stroke rehabilitation; however, the way that people post-stroke reflect on the concept of self-management has not yet been studied. This qualitative study explored the reflections of persons post-stroke on self-management, readiness and needs …

The transition from institutional to community care for vulnerable people has been shaping the welfare system in Europe over the last decades. For the period of 2014-20 deinstitutionalization became one of the highlighted priorities of the European Commission in order to promote reforms in disability …

In het UMCG komen met regelmaat mensen met balansproblemen tijdens het lopen. Ze voelen zich instabiel en zijn bang om te vallen als ze al niet een keer gevallen zijn. Om de balans te ondersteunen krijgen ze een wandelstok aangeboden. Dit laat een goede verbetering in het looppatroon zien als het gaat …

Finite element analysis on large structures in the mining industry is mainly set up with beamelements. During the modelling of the structures a couple of assumptions are made to ensure that the structure is not too complex. The connections between the beams are usually released in a couple of direction …

Achtergrond – Bij bewoners van zorginstellingen wordt nog weinig tot geen aandacht besteed aan de mate van lichamelijke activiteit, terwijl dit het ontstaan en beloop van chronische, fysieke en psychische leeftijd gerelateerde aandoeningen kan vertragen of zelfs kan voorkomen. De Qwiek.melody en de Qwiek.play …