SBO project with a primary societal finality: Digital ageing: How seniors can appreciate the benefits and avoid the pitfalls of a digitalizing society Vrije Universiteit Brussel
good life for seniors in the digitalizing society is possible.
In order to combat climate change, economists propose carbon taxation to reduce emissions. Carbon taxes are deemed regressive and increase inequality. Current literature is divided on the ways to combat this adverse effect. Literature on carbon taxation and double dividends has several flaws. Depending on the model, labour market imperfections, heterogeneity and demographic change are missing. These elements are important drivers of inter- ...
1) Determination of incidence and detection of riskfactors for falling in elderly a) with dementia in respective stages of disease and types, b) with diabetes in different stages of disease and differentiated treatment 2) Assessment of applicability of instruments and scales in view of developing an accurate fallrisk profile for respective groups 3) Constructing and testing of fallrisk-prevantative measures for given subpopulations.
Value and meaning of civil socio-cultural actorship for society
The central research question of this study is: What is the social value currently assigned to civil socio-cultural actorship in Flanders by the market, public authorities and civil society (outside the socio-cultural work itself)?
We divide this general research question into a number of more specific sub-questions. (1) What is a functional value framework for ...
Current Flemish policies regarding care for older people stress the need for care at home, in order to postpone as long as possible moving towards retiring homes. These policies however risk to produce counter-effects with respect to other policy domains such as spatial planning. Advocates of spatial sustainability stress the need for spatial efficiency, requiring the densification of centers, where infrastructure and amenities can be ...
This multidisciplinary proposal combines behavioural science, neuroscience, and ageing research with the goal of providing an innovative, state-of-the-art approach to address age related declines in human performance.
The ageing population presents unprecedented challenges for society, and developing novel approaches to understand and address age related declines is an key field for research. Response selection provides a novel and ...
OSTEONET aims to (i) build a multidisciplinary research network involving experts of technical and medical disciplines to merge their expertise and exploit possible synergies for the development of reliable and sustainable 3D in vitro cell models of healthy and aged bone tissue and (ii) train a cohort of scientists and technologists in exploiting the model features to increase knowledge on the effects of ageing on bone biology and ...