From June 11 to 13, 25 PhD candidates from the LCO (LUMC Center of Medicine for Older People) and 15 of their supervisors traveled to Egmond aan Zee to work on their dissertations and strengthen their connection with one another.
This was the second edition of the LCO writing retreat, as the first edition was held in 2024. This year, not only candidates in the final phase of their research were invited, but all LCO PhD students were welcome [...]
To learn more about Petra’s work, you can visit the project page of the CARED-4 study.
LEGend PhD candidate Carolien de Vries will defend her PhD thesis “Unspoken Pain: its assessment in persons with aphasia” on the 10th of October at 1.00 PM. You can join in person at the Academiegebouw in Leiden, or via the livestream.
Livestream: Livestream promotie – Universiteit Leiden
To learn more about Petra’s work, you can visit the project page: Pain in aphasia.
How do healthcare professionals collaborate effectively in long-term care (LTC) and geriatric rehabilitation (GR)? And how can this collaboration be measured? Researcher Arno Doornebosch and his team conducted a review study on this topic. They examined which factors facilitate or hinder collaboration, and which questionnaires or measurement tools are used to assess it.
The study identified three key themes:
How well the team works together How the organization is structured How information is sharedThere are already a few tools [...]
Following publications from a 33-country Delphi study on a definition of advance care planning in dementia, and on policy and research gaps, the core and final piece on clinical recommendations has now been published.
When, how and what to assess to optimize ACP in dementia: that’s what the paper is about. The optimal would be to address a full set of 30 elements of advance care planning, 25 of which to be addressed during every conversation or at [...]
From now on, LUMC staff members are allowed to openly share teaching materials under an (open) Creative Commons (CC) License. This is an essential and valuable step enabling the distribution, sharing, and reuse of learning materials.
This permission is part of the new employer copyright regulations of Leiden University. The Executive Board of the LUMC has decided to adopt these regulations too. These regulations pertain to various types of research and educational output.
For instance, it also states that publications [...]
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Op dit symposium hoor je nu al de bevindingen die er voor de praktijk toe doen. Met een afwisselend programma met presentaties, flitspresentaties en workshops komen verschillende onderwerpen voorbij.
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LEGend PhD candidate Jonathan Bogaerts will defend his PhD thesis “High blood pressure and its treatment in the very old – Balancing benefits and risks” on the 16th of April at 2.30 PM. You can join in person at the Academiegebouw in Leiden, or via the livestream.
To learn more about Jonathan’s work, you can visit the project page of the DANTON study.
The prestigious Dhole-Eddlestone Memorial Prize has been awarded to an Age and Ageing journal article examining the effects of discontinuing blood pressure treatments in older adults with dementia living in nursing homes. The prize is awarded annually to the most deserving medical research relating to the needs of older people, published in Age and Ageing, the scientific journal of the British Geriatrics Society (BGS) in the preceding year. The study was led by LEGend researchers Jonathan Bogaerts, Rosalinde Poortvliet, and [...]
LEGend PhD candidate Jules Kraaijkamp will defend his PhD thesis “Exploring New Horizons: Challenges and opportunities for eHealth in Geriatric Rehabilitation” on the 15th of April at 2.30 PM. You can join in person at the Academiegebouw in Leiden, or via the livestream.
To learn more about Jules’ work, you can visit the project page of the EAGER study or follow him on LinkedIn.