Projects
Fall prevention in nursing homes: documented effectiveness, prevailing views and current practices KU Leuven
The overarching aim of this dissertation is to improve fall prevention in nursing homes. This resulted in three overall objectives: 1) to study the documented effectiveness of fall prevention in nursing homes, 2) to gain insight into prevailing views and current practices and 3) to evaluate the feasibility of implementing a fall prevention practice guideline into the daily practice of nursing homes. Therefore, the follonwing research ...
Intimacy and Sexuality of Older Adults in Nursing Homes: A Foundational and Empirical Study of Christian Theological-Ethical Concepts and Approaches KU Leuven
Modern medicine has been an unrivalled benefactor of mankind – providing longer and healthier lives for the vast majority of us. Yet, these great accomplishments have also created new challenges. Since the number of older adults continues to increase worldwide, the number of people living in nursing homes has also increased. During the last few years, attempts have been made to clarify the ethical problems in care for institutionalized older ...
Communication about the end of life in nursing homes: a cluster randomised controlled trial. KU Leuven
Despite growing recognition of the importance of sexual expression among older people, nursing home residents’ sexual activity remains a widely ignored aspect of their physical, psychological and relational wellbeing. Residents are often infantilized which makes it hard for their surroundings to contemplate them as sexual beings. This ambiguous attitude toward later-life sexuality is further reinforced by the numerous ageist myths and ...
Communication about the end of life in nursing homes: a cluster randomised controlled trial Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Development of a practice tool for the improvement of palliative sedation practices in nursing homes: a phase 0-2 study according to the Medical Research Council framework. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Intimacy and Sexuality in Nursing Homes: Ethical Framework and Professional Ethical Guidelines for Care for Older People. KU Leuven
Improving advance care planning for people with dementia in Flemish nursing homes: ‘we DECide optimised’ KU Leuven
Background
Advance care planning (ACP) is the communication process of preparing care choices, in anticipation of the moment that persons no longer have decision making capacity. Therefore, ACP is essential in the case of dementia. Only a minority of people suffering from dementia in Flemish nursing homes have discussed their end-of-life choices. Nursing home staff are key figures in the ACP process. This process is closely related to ...
Nursing homes: a survey to inform staffing policy Ghent University
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 ...