Projects
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 ...
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 ...
Linguistic partnerships between schools and parents. A study of productive parental involvement interventions at home. Ghent University
How can you encourage effective parental involvement in learning and language acquisition? And how can we improve existing Flemish practices to better support parental involvement at home? The academic success and well-being of students depends partly on the extent to which parents are involved in their children's school careers. The involvement of parents at home appears to be of relatively great importance: parents who show an interest in ...
“Caring is sharing”: Creating a holding environment of quality relationships between the home and the facilitated group-home for children with extensive support needs. KU Leuven
Preventing avoidable hospital admissions and optimizing care transitions in nursing home residents KU Leuven
Due to population ageing and less availability of informal caregivers, an increasing number of older people spend the last years of their life in nursing homes (NH), where quality of care has been a long-lasting concern. Negative outcomes, such as falls, restraint use and pressure ulcers are common, because of the complex profile of residents, shortage of qualified professionals and poor working conditions. This leads to a high number of ...
Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV): prevalence, incidence and impact on balance, gait and falls in the nursing home population. Hasselt University
Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo: prevalence, incidence and impact on balance, gait and falls in the nursing home population. Hasselt University
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 ...
Evaluation of a home-based family therapy within the home guidance service of child welfare Ghent University
The purpose of this research project is to optimize the functioning of the home-guidance services by (1) completing the procedure that allows decent screening and referring of adolescents, and (2) systematically learning to work with a scientifically proven methodology (the Attachment Based Family Therapy (Prof. Dr. G. Diamond)) within a specific time span.