Background: Palliative care patients desire more symptom management interventions that are complementary to their medical treatment. Within the multi-professional team, nurses could help support pain management with non-pharmacological interventions feasible for their practice and adaptable to palliative …

Music can touch people deeply, and lead to wellbeing as an all-encompassing word for everything that makes life worth living, or at least can make it liveable. Musicians can play an important role in these processes, not as pseudo-therapists, but from their own artistic identity, with an approach in …

BackgroundTranscutaneous vagal nerve stimulation has analgesic potential and might be elicited by abdominally administered low-frequency vibrations. The objective was to study the safety and effect of a combination of music and abdominally administered low-frequency vibrations on pain intensity in elderly …

Presentatie voor cultuurcoaches van verschillende wijken van de stad Groningen over het project Hoor je ons?, met als doel kennismaking en verkenning mogelijkheden op het gebied van verduurzaming en doorwerking van het initiatief en valorisatie van de onderzoeksresultaten.

Guest lecture in the master programme Socially Engaged Artistic Practice at Royal Conservatoire The Hague

As a result of the COVID-19 measures, many people experienced social isolation and a lack of meaningful contact, especially vulnerable elderly people. For a specific group of musicians specialized in person-centred artistically-led participatory practices in healthcare settings, this sparked the exploration …

Participation in a round table reflecting on contributions and being part of the discussion in the expert group at the end of the two day conference.