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Toward a Partnership in the Transition from Home to a Nursing Home: The TRANSCIT Model KU Leuven
The transition from home to a nursing home can be stressful and traumatic for both older persons and informal caregivers and is often associated with negative outcomes. Additionally, transitional care interventions often lack a comprehensive approach, possibly leading to fragmented care. To avoid this fragmentation and to optimize transitional care, a comprehensive and theory-based model is fundamental. It should include the needs of both older ...
Interventions to Improve the Transition From Home to a Nursing Home: A Scoping Review KU Leuven
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The transition from home to a nursing home is a stressful event for both older persons and informal caregivers. Currently, this transition process is often fragmented, which can create a vicious cycle of health care-related events. Knowledge of existing care interventions can prevent or break this cycle. This project aims to summarize existing interventions for improving transitional care, identifying their ...
The development of BelRAI, a web application for sharing assessment data on frail older people in home care, nursing homes, and hospitals KU Leuven
© 2018, IGI Global. All rights reserved. As the complexity of caregiving rises and surpasses traditional models of care, the need for comprehensive and integrated assessment systems increases. The use of standardised and computerised data-available to those who must make decisions-has become paramount. In Belgium, the BelRAI Web application has been developed to support the use of interRAI assessment instruments in a multidisciplinary way and to ...
Palliative care for older people with dementia in nursing homes and at home : multi-country descriptive and interventional research Universiteit Gent
The development of BelRAI, a web application for sharing assessment data on frail older people in home care, nursing homes and hospitals KU Leuven
© 2014 by IGI Global. All rights reserved. As the complexity of caregiving rises and surpasses traditional models of care, the need for comprehensive and integrated assessment systems increases. The use of standardized and computerized data-available to those who must make decisions-has become paramount. In Belgium, the BelRAI web application has been developed to support the use of interRAI assessment instruments in a multidisciplinary way and ...
The involvement of the general practioner in an interRAI assessment for the care of elderly in Flemish nursing homes and home care: an explorative study Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies among Belgian nursing home residents and staff during the primary COVID-19 vaccination campaign Universiteit Gent Universiteit Antwerpen
BackgroundNursing home residents (NHR) and staff have been disproportionally affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and were therefore prioritised in the COVID-19 vaccination strategy. However, frail older adults, like NHR, are known to have decreased antibody responses upon vaccination targeting other viral antigens.ObjectivesAs real-world data on vaccine responsiveness, we assessed the prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies among Belgian NHR and staff ...