Presentation at a gathering of organizations active in the field of (elderly) care, local and regional authorities and local and regional governments within the framework of the national week of 'Care and Wellbeing' in order to make a statement concerning the effects of demographic transition in regions …

Mensen met een verstandelijke beperking worden steeds ouder. Daardoor wordt dementie steeds prominenter in de gehandicaptenzorg. Hoe ernstiger de verstandelijke beperking, des te ingewikkelder achteruitgang in functioneren en dementie zijn vast te stellen. Voor mensen met (zeer) ernstige verstandelijke …

Surgery is an important part of the treatment modalities offered to older patients with cancer. Natural ageing processes lead to deterioration of organ function, making older patients more vulnerable and at risk for experiencing less-favourable outcomes and complications after surgery. Non-pharmaceutical …

Dementie komt veel voor, vooral op hogere leeftijd neemt de kans aanzienlijk toe. Dementie is een syndroom dat wordt gekenmerkt door een duidelijke cognitieve achteruitgang ten opzichte van een eerder niveau van functioneren, in een of meer cognitieve domeinen (complexe aandacht, executieve functies, …

Dementia and movement disorders. With a greying European society the consequences are already visible with an increase of the prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease and other age-related neurodegenerative and mental disorders. Therefore it is no surprise that the health care cost of brain disease is expected …

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BACKGROUND: Acute hospitalization may lead to posthospital syndrome, but no studies have investigated how this syndrome manifests and geriatric syndromes are often used as synonym. However, studies on longitudinal associations between syndromes and adverse outcomes are scarce. We aimed to analyze longitudinal …

BACKGROUND: Paratonia is a distinctive form of hypertonia, causing loss of functional mobility in early stages of dementia to severe high muscle tone and pain in the late stages. For assessing and evaluating therapeutic interventions, objective instruments are required. OBJECTIVE: Determine the psychometric …

Being able to identify socially frail older adults is essential for designing interventions and policy and for the prediction of health outcomes, both on the level of individual older adults and of the population. The aim of the present study was to adapt the Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) to the Dutch …