Projects
Design, development, and use of electronic tracking devices in dementia care: an ethical analysis KU Leuven
Wandering, a behavioral symptom of dementia, occurs when persons with dementia walk away from safe areas, potentially becoming lost and placed into high-risk situations. Persons with dementia who wander are often placed into institutionalized care facilities even when they have a strong desire to remain at home.
Caregivers have increasingly turned toward electronic tracking devices to manage wandering. These devices use technologies to ...
Co-designing a Home with Dementia KU Leuven
The Doctoral Network “Co-designing a Home with Dementia” (HOMEDEM) is a Marie-Skłodowska-Curie Actions' Innovative Training Network that will provide high-level training in design and dementia caregiving, to high achieving, early-stage researchers. HOMEDEM focuses on the recent move across Europe towards supporting people with dementia (PwD) living at home (if that is their desire) for as long as possible with appropriate care. This move ...
Re-membering "strange compositions": a visual anthropological inquiry with Flemish elderly with dementia into inclusive trajectories and rhizomatic narrativity. KU Leuven
There is a space for people with dementia in contemporary society. Their personhood in despite of the disease is recognized, the quality of care has considerably increased and we can relate to them by sharing stories: stories about who they once were, before the dementia. Looking through a personhood lens, we re-member them: as the embodiment of a rich life story and as citizens of our community. A person with dementia, however, apart ...
AMusED: Adherence by Music to Exercise in Dementia Hasselt University
Memorandum:Discourse-analytical research of dementia communication KU Leuven
According to Alzheimer’s disease International there were almost 47 million people with dementia worldwide in 2015. This number will substantially increase in the coming decades. Additionally, the number of people dealing with the disease (such as relatives and caregivers) is three times as high as the number of people with dementia. The stigma around dementia has a negative impact on almost all medical challenges, such as a timely diagnosis ...
MemorandumDiscourse-analytical research concerning dementia (patients) KU Leuven
[18F]-MFBG PET of the cardiac noradrenergic system for early differentiation in Parkinson’s disease and dementia with Lewy bodies. KU Leuven
The main aim of this project is to validate and optimize the clinical use, leading to reimbursement of recently introduced cardiac [18F]-MFBG noradrenergic transporter (NET) Positron Emission Tomography (PET) in the diagnostic workup of patients with suspected neurodegeneration, both movement disorders (differential diagnosis between Parkinson’s Disease (PD) and the parkinsonian variant of Multiple System Atrophy (MSA-P)) and two of the most ...
Stay @ home with dementia. KU Leuven
Stay @ home with dementia: the need for implementation of care technology. Methodology and practice.