Projects
Sensory Integration and Balance Control During Standing and Walking under Challenging Conditions in Healthy Young and Older Adults Hasselt University
Citizen science on park accessibility and park visitation among older adults Ghent University
Providing healthy cities for all is a major challenge for policy makers worldwide, especially in the context of massive urbanization and rapidly ageing populations. High quality urban parks could become an important aspect in creating healthy cities for older adults; since parks can positively impact the physical, mental and social health of their users. Unfortunately, older adults currently rarely visit parks. It is therefore important to ...
Tackling FRAILTY: ACTIVE-AGE@home: a home-based functional exercise program for community dwelling frail older adults. University of Antwerp
Functional measures to evaluate muscle power in older adults KU Leuven
Human ageing is associated with neuromuscular adaptations, which can lead to age-related muscle failure or sarcopenia. Muscle power, the product of muscle force and velocity, deteriorates faster with aging compared to muscle force and is highly related to functional activities such as walking, balance maintenance, standing up from a chair and stair ascent (SA), which makes it crucial for independency. Therefore, tracing muscle power loss at ...
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
Cognitively enriched walking interventions for older adults to boost cognitive plasticity KU Leuven
Dementia currently affects more than 47 million people worldwide, is forecasted to triple by 2050 and is one of the most costly disorders in Belgium. There is good scientific evidence that the cognitive impairments associated with the development of dementia can be lessened or even reverse because of the plasticity of the brain (rewiring). Recent research has shown that engaging in regular physical activity combined with performing ...
Effects of non-invasive brain stimulation on motor learning-related neuroplasticity in healthy older adults KU Leuven
A substantial impediment to healthy living in older adults is the compromised functioning of the motor system, and the neuroplastic processes underlying the learning and retention of motor skills in particular. A promising avenue to boost motor-related neuroplasticity in older adults is non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS); however, remarkably little is known with respect to the neural correlates of this intervention. Accordingly, the ...
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 ...
TELE-TRIAGE: Improving the accuracy of a non-clinical operator-led telephone triage service for older adults seeking non-urgent, out-of-hours unplanned care KU Leuven
It is well known that older adults (over the age of 65) are especially difficult to triage over out-of-hours telephone triage (OOH-TT) services as they frequently present with atypical symptoms of common heath concerns. However, few efforts have been yet made to better understand how well existing services work to provide remote care to older segments of the population. Little is also known about how to improve existing methods to provide ...