Projects
Dementia-friendly hospital: tailored care of persons with dementia and their family caregivers in the hospital context HOGENT
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
Quality indicators of quality of life and care for people with cognitive problems, including dementia mainly and staying in a nursing home. KU Leuven
The Flemish government supports and facilitates the quality policy of Flemish residential care centers. The Flemish residential care centers provide the instruments that support their internal quality policy with the Flemish housing care centers. The residential care centers have since 2013 registered a number of themes that are being processed into quality indicators about "quality of care and safety" (eg decubitus, fall incidents) and about ...