Patients are getting older while at the same time undergoing increasingly intensive treatments. This brings up the concept of physical resilience – the ability to recover and adapt after health-related stressors such as surgery or chemotherapy. Identifying physical resilience in older patients may enable more personalized treatment plans, ultimately allowing for better recovery and improved functional outcomes. The first step, however, is being able to measure physical resilience, which is the goal of the TOPFORM study.
Today, the first patient [...]
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With this Toolkit, you will know how to design a nursing home garden based on evidence based practice!
The toolkit was developed in collaboration with W E I J D E Tuin – en Landschapsarchitecten.
The research was conducted by UNC-ZH in collaboration with Pieter van Foreest and the Academische Werkplaats Ouderenzorg Limburg.
For more information click here.
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LUMC PhD candidate Lian Tijsen will defend her PhD thesis “A Challenging Rehabilitation Environment; CREATE a team self-evaluation tool” on the 11th of September at 11.30 o’clock. You can join in person at the Academiegebouw in Leiden, or via the livestream.
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, we conducted an international multicenter study on the treatment and recovery of post-COVID-19 patients in geriatric rehabilitation: the EU-COGER study. Over 700 patients across 10 European countries were recruited within one year and were followed up to 6 months past discharge from rehabilitation. Recently, the first two scientific articles based on the EU-COGER study have been published in Age & Ageing and JAMDA. The most important findings are outlined in a factsheet, which you [...]
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LUMC researchers dr. Rosalinde Poortvliet and dr. Diana van Heemst, specialists in thyroid disease, were interviewed about the ageing thyroid by Ramon Heemskerk for the Dutch magazine Endocrinologie. Read the full interview here (in Dutch).
Highlights and insights from previous and ongoing project performed in the LEGend Thyroid pipeline are discussed as well as their implications for longevity and patient care.
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Following a publication on defining advance care planning (ACP) in dementia and what it entails, a second publication on the 33-country Delphi study addresses policy and research gaps.
Evidence-based policy should shape strategic priorities to guide professionals. The taskforce of the European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC) chaired by Dr Jenny van der Steen (LUMC) and Dr Ida Korfage (Erasmus MC) has developed policy and research recommendations for ACP. The second article, published in The Lancet Healthy Longevity, was [...]
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The “Toolkit Vitality Garden” is launched!
Going outside is not a luxury, but a necessity. Unfortunately, it seems that going outside is still not a normal part of daily nursing home practice.
With this (Dutch) toolkit you now know how to design a nursing home garden based on evidence-based practice. It is developed based on literature research, preliminary results of an intervention study and expertise of the research- and projectteam.
This research was carried out by the University Network for [...]
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Upcoming is an online webinar on Pain and Stress Recognition in Dementia with Prof. Wilco Achterberg (UNC-ZH, LUMC) and the University of Nottingham.
For whom? Researchers and healthcare professionals!
Where? Online via Microsoft Teams
In collaboration with the University of Nottingham.
NB! The webinar is given in English
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Jasmin Annica Keller and Jeroen de Bresser of the LUMC Radiology department published a paper on the identification of brain MRI phenotypes using a hierarchical clustering model. The results indicate that distinct brain MRI phenotypes are related to varying long-term risks of developing dementia. Brain MRI phenotypes may in the future assist in an improved understanding of the structural correlates of dementia predisposition.
View the new publication in Neurology here.
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On 1 February 2024, Charlotte Poot defended her PhD thesis entitled “Building Bridges for
Meaningful eHealth, aligning people, technology and practice through collaboration and knowledge sharing.” and received her PhD. Congratulations Charlotte and team!
Find the thesis here.
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