Projects
Caring is sharing. KU Leuven
Caring is sharing: creating a holding environment of quality relationships between the home and the facilitated group-home for children with extensive support needs.
New ways of working: An aid for employees? Understanding inconsistencies in the relationship between work–home practices and employees’ home and work outcomes KU Leuven
Organizations today increasingly offer work-home practices to their employees. Work-home practices are HR initiatives that provide employees with additional resources (e.g., flexibility, time) that can facilitate balancing work with other life roles and may therefore help to lower employees’ work-home conflict, that is, the conflict that occurs when employees’ participation in their work role interferes with their participation in their home ...
The social context of community-dwelling adults with care needs. The development of a Social Supplement to the BelRAI Screener and the interRAI Home Care instrument KU Leuven
Population ageing puts significant pressure on the supply and capabilities of regional and national (health) care systems. This trend results, among other things, in a growing demand for outpatient health and social care, particularly home care. Alongside a growing number of older individuals with care needs who (prefer to) stay at home, we are witnessing a in increasingly complex care needs.
These converging trends result in a need ...
Stay@home with dementia: from need to implementation of care technology. PXL
Tackling FRAILTY: ACTIVE-AGE@home: a home-based functional exercise program for community dwelling frail older adults. University of Antwerp
Smart Glasses for coaching and guidance in primary care Ghent University
With this project, the applicants want to improve the smart use of Smart Glasses in connection with facilitate and realize an effective realization of workplace learning. The area of application is situated within three diverse processes: (1) remote deployment of expertise (for complex care tasks, e.g. wound care), (2) coaching of (new) employees (e.g. onboarding) and (3) interprofessional consultation on complex care files (e.g. case ...
FLanders study to Improve End-of-life Care and Evaluation tools – FLIECE Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Development and evaluation of a multi-component program for the implementation of an evidence based practice guideline to reduce restraint use in home care KU Leuven
The primary objective of this project is to develop and evaluate a multi-component program for the implementation of an evidence based practice guideline to reduce the use of physical restraints in home care. In the longer term the multicomponent program aims to support health-care professionals in reducing the use of restraints in home care and so providing quality care for vulnerable older people with an increased risk of restraint use. The ...