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The quality of life, a mosaic of everyday life Departement of spatial development, environment, energy, climate, green economy, animal welfare
Quality of life is regularly on the political agenda. Not infrequently this occurs in the search for an interpretation of social progress that goes beyond the purely economic. This search has outgrown the stage of purely academic considerations. The Flemish government is also committed to the theme of quality of life. For example, we can refer to the September declaration by the Prime Minister on 27 September 2010. In his speech to the Flemish ...
Industrial representations of Belgian Limburg miners in the 1950s: labour, everyday life, and corporate culture Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The aim of this paper is the analysis of the photographic representations of (Belgian) Limburg Miners in the 1950s, in view to learn about the changing (mining) community and shrinking labor Market at that time. Specific attention will be paid to the so-called industrial representations of these miners, taking different levels of the workers' life into account (everyday life, labor and industrial welfare) (Margolis, 1998). A historical and ...
The impact of in-centre haemodialysis treatment on the everyday life of older adults with end-stage kidney disease : a qualitative study Ghent University KU Leuven
Background Older adults with end-stage kidney disease experience a diminished ability to perform the activities of their daily life. For those living at home, the initiation of in-centre haemodialysis treatment (ICHD) carries a risk of cascading functional decline leading to early nursing home placement and mortality. Research on how older adults adapt to their newly impacted daily life is scarce. Methods Individual semi-structured interviews ...
Siblings' experiences of everyday life in a family where one child is diagnosed with blood cancer : a qualitative study Ghent University
Background: Childhood cancer not only presents challenges to the life of the child with cancer but also to the siblings' daily family life. The aim of the current study was to gain a better understanding of siblings' experiences of living in a family where one child has been diagnosed with blood cancer. Method: Ten siblings of children with leukemia or non-Hodgkin lymphoma completed a semistructured interview about their everyday family life ...
The prism of everyday life : towards a new research agenda for time geography Ghent University University of Antwerp
Genetics in everyday life. A qualitative study of individuals at risk of hereditary breast and ovarian cancer (BRCA) and Huntington’s disease (HD) about fears of genetic discrimination KU Leuven
For decades, as our understanding of human genetics has continued to advance, socio-ethical and legal scholars have raised questions and concerns about the ethical and social implications (ELSI issues) of genetics. One specific ELSI concern is that increased knowledge and applications of human genetics might lead to new forms of negative treatment, discrimination, and stigmatisation. In the nineties, several Western countries responded to this ...
Being Human: Exploring the Social Relations between Humans and Intimate Technological Others in Everyday Life KU Leuven
Everywhere we go, we are confronted with, guided by and welcomed by ever more interactive technologies that are not only occupying a physical space around us, but also a significant place in our hearts, minds and bodies. This thesis argues and empirically demonstrates that our sense of self and social rituals are being impacted by technologies that are not just tools, but veritable Others with different agential capacities. That is, people form ...
Open dementia project: Empathic tools between magic and everyday life KU Leuven
In Chinese society like in many cultures, persons with dementia suffer some level of stigmatisation. For this reason a dementia research/care centre in Hong Kong (China) initiated the design of the “dementia experience tool”. Its main goal is to create public understanding through inviting the general public to experience dementia. The dementia research/care centre commissioned a social design research lab team (two of the authors are part of ...