Projects
Optimal Care and Support for Elderly Persons with Intellectual Disabilities HOGENT
Machine Learning and Radar Sensors for Monitoring Patients and Elderly People in Healthcare Ghent University
Integrated and long-term care for adults and the elderly - design of a project context Hasselt University
The case for aquatic exercise in elderly persons with and without chronic disabilities. KU Leuven
Programming home care and elderly facilities. University of Antwerp
Resistance training as a stimulus for improved physical activity in later life KU Leuven
Transcriptomic profiles related to telomere length within a life course epidemiology context Hasselt University
Vulnerability for depression during the life span: the influence of time perspective on attentional bias for negative versus positive interpersonal information Ghent University
This project investigates the relationship between time perspective, attentional bias for affective stimuli and mood in a life span perspective. Because attentional bias is a vulnerability factor for depression, and because it is a bias that occurs at later stages of information processing, it is clinically relevant to investigate which top-down processes influence this bias, to underpin possible therapeutic interventions.
European Muslims and the End of Life. Turkish and Moroccan Attitudes towards Suffering, Dying and Mourning in Antwerp, Belgium KU Leuven
This interdisciplinary study, combining the perspectives of religious studies and comparative ethics, studies the religious and ethical attitudes, beliefs and practices regarding death and dying of Muslims of Moroccan and Turkish descent living in Belgium. By doing so, this study will reveal whether in our contemporary postmodern, multicultural and globalised society there is a need for specific measures in elderly care, ...