Projects
Meaning Making in Old Age: A longitudinal approach KU Leuven
The proposed research program will investigate how older persons establish meaning when confronted with stressful events inherent to late life and how specific religious, spiritual, and secular factors influence this process. The program will clarify (a) whether religious, spiritual or secular meaning systems influence meaning making processes in old age, (b) how these dynamic processes develop over time, (c) how specific aspects of the ...
Architectural design of dwelling and care in old age: How does the form and spatial organization of residential care facilities relate to residents# values and experiences? KU Leuven
In Europe and worldwide, the number of older people is growing. While most of them want to stay living at home, more and more people need daily professional care, as provided in residential care facilities. Often, however, available residential care facilities have a hospital-like character and do not meet contemporary ideas about housing and care. Indeed, older people want to avoid institutionalization, and instead want to have a say in ...
Are you shy or are you bold? Is personality along the bold-shy axis linked with foraging behaviour, physiology and reproductive investment in northern fulmars? University of Antwerp
An AI-boosted worm-based platform to explore biological age in healthspan, and accelerate screening KU Leuven
A Golden Age of Biblical Scholarship in Louvain and Douai (1550-1650). KU Leuven
Lead white speciation: a technical marker for dating paintings and paint layers. University of Antwerp
News diversity: a Longitudinal and Comparative Perspective KU Leuven
You are holding a manuscript that has been written within the Steunpunt Media (2012-2016), a policy instrument and knowledge centre that was set up to monitor the pluriformity of the Flemish news media landscape, initiated by the former Flemish Minister of Media Ingrid Lieten. The starting point of our research is the notion that content diversity, by itself, ought to be protected within a democratic society (Lieten, 2011; Napoli, ...
How successfully do older Europeans age?A new measurement toolbox and its application with data from SHARE. University of Antwerp
The INTERACT project: CannabINoid recepTors as kEy playeRs in skeletAl musCle plasTicity KU Leuven
Sarcopenia is a critical matter of concern in an aging population. It impairs the elderly’s quality of life and imposes an enormous burden on the healthcare system. No therapies can fully overcome age-related skeletal muscle (SkM) wasting, although SkM is very plastic. Therefore, INTERACT explores the cannabinoid system as a novel target in combatting SkM wasting. More specific, we target cannabinoid receptor (CBR) 1 and CBR2 to improve the ...