BACKGROUND Over the last years, several initiatives on early detection and intervention have been put in place to proactively identify health and social problems in (frail) older people. An overview of the initiatives currently available in the Netherlands is lacking, and it is unknown whether they meet the preferences and needs of older people. Therefore, the objectives of this study were thre...

Lack of acceptance of social assistive robots by elderly could obstruct this technology to bridge the gap between demand and supply of elderly care. Two experiments were conducted with 22 older adults (63 to 87 years old) in a home-like room of the Experience-Lab of Philips. The aim of the first experiment was to test the effect of user-robot personality matching on the acceptance by elderly of...

Since the early 1990s, the Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions (DTLR) and local authorities in East Midlands have been promoting mixed-use developments as part of their strategies for revitalizing town centers. A number of studies recognize the positive contribution made by mixed-use schemes towards increasing the vitality and attractions of town centres and improving hous...

BACKGROUND Poor coordination of canister actuation and inspiration often prevents adequate metered-dose inhaler (MDI) usage by patients, perhaps especially so among the elderly. Breath-actuated inhalers (BAI) have been developed to prevent this problem. METHODS We compared the adequacy of inhaler technique and patient preferences between MDI and BAI in a group of elderly subjects (mean age, 7...

Today, the preferences and participation of the TD groups such as the elderly and disabled is still lacking in decision-making of transportation planning, and their reactions to certain type of policies are not well known. Thus, a clear methodology is needed. This study aimed to develop a method to extract the preferences of the disabled to be used in the policy-making stage that can also guide...

Non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is a very common disease in the elderly population and its incidence in this particular population is expected to increase further, because of the ageing of the Western population. Despite this, limited data are available for the treatment of these patients and, therefore, the development of evidence-based treatment recommendations is challenging. In 2010, Eur...

In elderly care the shortage of available financial and human resources for coping with an increasing number of elderly people becomes critical. Current solutions to this problem focus on efficiency gains through the usage of information systems and include homecare services provided by IT systems. However, the current IT systems that integrate homecare services have difficulties in handling th...

The establishment of food preferences and aversions determines the modulation of eating behaviour and the optimization of food intake. These phenomena rely on the learning and memory abilities of the organism and depend on different psychobiological mechanisms such as associative conditionings and sociocultural influences. After summarizing the various behavioural and environmental determinants...

A Collective Retirement Model: Identification and Estimation in the Presence of Externalities We study the labor supply dynamics of elderly couples by means of a structural collective model. The model allows for general externalities with respect to spouses’ leisure. Preferences and the intrahousehold bargaining process are identified by using panel data with couples and individuals who turned ...