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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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Hamo, Alan (author), van der Spijk, Tim (author)The amount of people dealing with dementia is rising globally. The amount of caretakers is, however, not. Therefore, technological aids are needed to support people dealing with dementia and relieve the stress on their caretakers. Current solutions provide tracking of people with dementia. Also, different robots exist that provide people with...bachelor thesis 2021
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Usa, Lyana (author), Küçükçelebi, Taha (author)With the increasing demand in home-care service to provide early intervention at the homes of seniors suffering from early stage dementia, the Smart Teddy prototype offers a technological solution to disburden caregivers, to promote and track the health and conditions of the senior and to prolong their independent life at home. The Smart Teddy...bachelor thesis 2021
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Wang, G. (author)According to Person-Centred Care, as far as possible, people with dementia should be cared for in a way that takes into account their personality, life experiences and preferences. Personalisation is hence the core of Person-Centred Care, yet the approaches, recommendations and tools are lacking for this purpose. Therefore, the author...doctoral thesis 2021
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Zhuang, Shuyan (author)This project is about designing a tool to help informal caregivers provide better dementia care experiences for the people-with-dementia. There are many different non-pharmacological interventions that can be applied to help deal with the symptoms of dementia. Both understanding the knowledge of non-pharmacological interventions and knowing the...master 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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Wang, G. (author), Albayrak, A. (author), Kortuem, Gerd (author), van der Cammen, T.J.M. (author)Background: Care personalization is key to the well-being of people with dementia according to person-centered care. With the development of the internet of things, a large quantity of personal data can be collected securely and reliably, which has the potential to facilitate care personalization for people with dementia. Yet, there are...journal article 2021
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Genetics Contributes to Concomitant Pathology and Clinical Presentation in Dementia with Lewy Bodiesvan der Lee, S.J. (author), van Steenoven, Inger (author), van de Beek, Marleen (author), Tesi, N. (author), Jansen, Iris E. (author), van Schoor, N.M. (author), Reinders, M.J.T. (author), Huisman, Martijn (author), Scheltens, Philip (author)Background: Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is a complex, progressive neurodegenerative disease with considerable phenotypic, pathological, and genetic heterogeneity. Objective: We tested if genetic variants in part explain the heterogeneity in DLB. Methods: We tested the effects of variants previously associated with DLB (near APOE, GBA, and...journal article 2021
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Wang, G. (author), Albayrak, A. (author), Hogervorst, Eef (author), van der Cammen, T.J.M. (author)Personalisation is a crucial element in providing person-centred care for people with de-mentia. This paper presents the development and evaluation of a design toolkit to facilitate the work of designers and healthcare professionals in personalising dementia care. This toolkit, named “Know-me”, was grounded in the findings of Ergonomics in...journal article 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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Hwang, Han-Sol (author)The population of the Netherlands is aging. This well-known characteristic of the present-day’s society is caused by multiple factors like low birth rate and improvement of healthcare. Dementia is one of the most common diseases that occurs to aged people. Most people with severe dementia are usually situated in a nursing home where they are...master thesis 2020
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Guo, Xin (author)BPSD (Behaviour and psychological symptoms of Dementia) is a progressive symptom infecting PwD’s well-being and cause stress to care givers. It results from unmet needs in different aspects. A personalized care plan is demanding to be made iteratively to meeting the individual needs of the each patient. It is made by the care team and guides the...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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Ezink, Jeroen (author)A living environment designed for elderly people and elderly people with dementia. If the residents, the elderly people, gets dementia they will be able to continue their life in the same, trusted living environment, without moving to other living environments.master thesis 2020
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Shannon, Kay (author), Jürgenhake, Birgit (author)Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to discuss Dutch innovative care environments for older people, including those living with dementia, from the perspectives or an architect and a social gerontologist. Design/methodology/approach: The authors visited three care environments for older people, each offering an innovative approach to living...journal article 2020