Charities on the islands of Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao operate in an environment that is considered to be a Statist Regime. They are generally small, less organized, and receive little support from the government, causing them to rely on other sources for funding. Their relatively small size means that …

We thank the authors Hayden and Glenn for commenting on our paper ‘The introduction of a nursing guideline on depression at psychogeriatric nursing home wards: Effects on Certified Nurse Assistants’, which was published in the International Journal of Nursing Studies (Verkaik et al., 2011). In our paper …