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Vogel, Ricardo (author)
Several useful technologies to help people with dementia already exist. Robotic pets, for example, have been shown to alleviate negative symptoms associated with dementia. Most robotic pets, however, only have pet-like functionality. This is useful on its own, but adding additional care functionality would be helpful. A different useful tool for...
master thesis 2024
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Kriekaard, Femke (author)
A majority of people with dementia live at home. Most people living alone experience problems with wayfinding due to symptoms of their disease, like memory impairment, spatial disorientation, and loss of planning abilities. These problems can cause them to reduce their outside travel range or even stop going on independent outdoor visits...
master thesis 2023
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Potok, Iga (author)
This paper has argued that the absence of inter-generational contact and a deficit of care-taking in communities leads to the societal exclusion of the elderly and increases the development of diseases such as Alzheimer’s, dementia and depression. Dementia is a pressing problem of our time. The number of people with dementia is constantly rising...
master thesis 2023
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van Mierlo, Sabine (author)
Introduction: Although hearing impairment is recognized as a significant modifiable risk factor for dementia, no standardized methods or guidelines exist for hearing screening in cognitively impaired patients. The objectives of this study are to establish a suitable hearing assessment method at the memory clinic, compare the prevalence of...
master thesis 2023
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Stuiver, Tom (author)
Loneliness and social isolation amongst elderly is becoming an oppressing problem and could even cause dementia over time. A worrying omen, especially when the growing dementia figures in the Netherlands are taken into consideration. A problem which is even more opressing due to the current- and future shortage of financial funding, healthcare...
master thesis 2023
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Raja, Adhityan (author)
Dementia is an umbrella term for progressive loss of cognitive abilities, which mainly affects elderly- affecting relationships, feelings and behaviour. A person living with dementia (PLWD) might forget the names of their grandchildren, the face of their loved ones, important places and life events. Due to the rising population growth with more...
master thesis 2023
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Klein Kranenbarg, Kyra (author)
master thesis 2022
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Ruitenburg, Yvon (author)
People with dementia often quit cooking early on in their illness because it is too complex, tiring, or frustrating. With mild dementia, people struggle with planning and figuring out the order of the cooking steps. Also, they find it challenging to stay focussed on the tasks at hand. Furthermore, their short-term memory causes them to struggle...
master thesis 2022
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Kreynen, Bernd (author)
Dementia care is a growing problem, both due to a rising number of cases and due to a shortage in healthcare workers. Aside from cognitive symptoms persons with dementia (PwDs) often deal with psychological symptoms such as agitation. The individualized music intervention (IMI) by Linda Gerdner has been proposed to reduce these. This is the...
master thesis 2021
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Croes, Laura (author), Haggerty, Shea (author)
In September 2018, the Smart Teddy project was founded by a group of researchers within the Hague University of Applied Sciences1 in the Netherlands. The Smart Teddy project is a multidisciplinary project aiming to create an interactive system, using a teddy bear as a focus point, which collects the data needed in order to enable seniors with...
bachelor thesis 2021
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Gelderblom, Jorn (author)
Background More and more people have to deal with dementia themselves, in their direct or indirect environment. However, this problem is often not part of everyday life in our society. Our living environment is not designed for the increasing dependence of these people and the problems that they daily face remains often behind closed doors. The...
master thesis 2021
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Diaz Couder Breceda, Ileana (author)
According to the WHO, dementia is one of the main causes of elderly dependency and disability worldwide. People with dementia are not the only ones affected. As the demand for care is high, families and caregivers experience physical, emotional, and sometimes financial stress. Up to date, there is no cure for dementia and its progression. The...
master thesis 2020
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Pak, Hannah (author)
The aim of this thesis was to enable people in the last stage of dementia, that are confined to their bed or room, and the people around them with shared positive moments. In order to design an experimental concept proposal that could accomplish that aim, the emotional needs of people living with dementia and the people around them were explored...
master thesis 2020
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Peeters, R.V.M. (author)
The amount of elderly in the Netherlands will increase significantly in the upcoming years. According to the CBS (2018) by 2030 a quarter of the Dutch population will be aged 65 or older. Due to the growing number of elderly people, the number of elderly people with dementia is also increasing. The current built environment does not respond to...
master thesis 2020
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Aramjan, S. (author)
The relation between the graduation topic; designing for dementia, the studio topic; designing for care and the master of Architecture are highly relevant to each other. At this moment we are living in a society where the number of elderly people will increase rapidly in the upcoming years. According to the CBS Population Forecast, the number of...
master thesis 2020
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van Manen, Max (author)
At this point, around 280.000 people are living with dementia in the Netherlands and this number is expected to grow significantly in the coming decades due to the aging population. It is expected that by 2040 the number of people with dementia will grow to 520.000 and expand to over 620.000 people by 2050 (Alzheimer Nederland, 2018). This puts...
master thesis 2020
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de Rond, Maartje (author)
This project focuses on contributing to a feeling of connectedness for people in the mid to late stages of dementia living in a nursing home. Feeling connected is still important for people living with dementia. They may suffer from disabilities caused by their disease, losing their memory and ability to make decisions, but there are also things...
master thesis 2019
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Wang, Johnny (author)
The gap between predicted brain age and chronological age could serve as biomarker for early-stage neurodegeneration and as potentially as a risk indicator for dementia. We assess the utility of this age gap as a risk biomarker for incident dementia in a general elderly population. The brain age is estimated from longitudinal brain magnetic...
master thesis 2019
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Blokker, Jeffrey (author)
Our cities in the Netherlands become more dense, and our population increasingly older. This will increase the pressure on our society and care system. This is especially true in relation to the portion of our population that will be diagnosed with dementia, because in 2040 this amount will have doubled. The focus of this research has been how...
master thesis 2018
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Bakker, Herco (author)
This thesis focuses on the Klein Vaticaan area of Zutphen. The Klein Vaticaan was part of the Roman Catholic community within Zutphen, and consisted of an ensemble of buildings located in the neighborhood of the Nieuwstad. The Klein Vaticaan grew significantly throughout the years; at its peak it was roughly the whole eastern part of the...
master thesis 2018
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