Projects
Individualized CARE for Older Persons with Complex Chronic Conditions at home and in nursing homes KU Leuven
BACKGROUND
Optimal care for older patients with complex chronic conditions (CCC) is challenging. Not only do older patients with CCC present with multiple conditions and functional impairments, these often interact with each other, as well as with their treatments.
Patients with CCC are concentrated in home care and nursing home settings. Professionals working in these settings often lack appropriate decision support that mirrors ...
Living actively and independently at home – Support more older adults to live longer in their homes with the contribution of ICT based solutions (gAALaxy). University of Antwerp
‘My work feels like home’: Effects of dogs in the 2020 (home) workplace on employee wellbeing and performance KU Leuven
The role of companion dogs in the lives of employees and the potential benefits for organizations when facilitating employees’ care for their dog has been largely neglected in research to date. However, the new labour market generation of millennials surpasses baby boomers as the largest dog owning generation and will make up for up to 75% of the workforce by 2025. Organizations could respond to this reality in two main ways. First, companies ...
Development of patient-centred home care quality indicators (HC-QIs) for clinical integration of primary care based on the interRAI home care assessment KU Leuven
Background: Only 37% of primary care providers in the Commonwealth Fund are regularly notified by home care providers about important changes in the health status of clients. This service gap is one of many drivers behind the global pursuit of clinical integration, or the coordination of health services across jurisdictions, disciplines, and time. Improving integration can enhance efficiency, quality of care, and patient quality of life. ...
Living (at) Home. On Older People’s making of Home and Dignity KU Leuven
In Belgium, as elsewhere, the proportion of older people among the population steadily increases. This demographic evolution gives rise to a lot of discussions, in particular in relation to eldercare and its expenditures. How should societies handle the question of eldercare? Across Europe and North America, the dominant answer is the ageing-in-place paradigm. This paradigm meets the wishes of most older people, who overwhelmingly express the ...
Integration of palliative care into home, nursing home and hospital care. Ghent University
INTEGRATE is focused on developing and studying integration models of palliative care in the Flemish health care system. The project aims to expand the boundaries of existing research and to provide the necessary scientific evidence and insights on integration of palliative care in the various echelons of our health care system, such as in different hospital departments, home care, residential care centers. In addition, it also wants to ...
Development of simulator for home battery + extension of simulator to calculate payback time for home battery with electric heating and electric vehicle Ghent University
Development of a calculation model in which, by entering a limited number of data, a calculation of the dimensioning of a home battery is carried out as realistically as possible, whether or not taking into account the presence of a PV system.
Approach:
- Modelling of a load profile, taking into account the presence and number of occupants
- Calculation of the output of a PV installation, taking into account direction and ...
Integration of palliative care into home, nursing home and hospital care. KU Leuven
Development and study of integration models of palliative care in the Flemish health care system. The project aims to extend the boundaries of existing research and to provide the necessary scientific evidence and insights into the integration of palliative care in the various echelons of our health system.
Addressing the 'home' in home delivery - A placemaking approach to optimise e-commerce activities and improve residential areas. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
decade, not in the least in response to e-commerce. Accelerated by
the COVID-19 pandemic, online business models have become
important alternatives to stores. As a sector that relies on home
deliveries, e-commerce impacts the environments in which it
operates, including very locally. To reduce the negative
environmental impacts, research focuses ...