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Research Group Healthy Ageing, Allied Health Care and Nursing

Join the Hanze University of Applied Sciences' Research Group on Healthy Ageing, Allied Health Care, and Nursing. With over 60 researchers and 20+ PhD projects, we focus on understanding healthy ageing, malnutrition, and developing interventions for a better quality of life. Get involved in our Living Labs and Proactive Prevention initiatives. Contact us today!

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Research Group Healthy Ageing, Allied Health Care and Nursing

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  1. Research Group Healthy Ageing, Allied Health Care and Nursing Hanze University of Applied Sciences

  2. Hanze UAS • Largest UAS in Northern Netherlands • ~26.000 students • ~2500 employees • Healthy ageing in >20 bachelor/master programmes • Applied research, 6 Research Centres • Coordinator of national Centre of Expertise Healthy Ageing

  3. Research Group Healthy Ageing, Allied Health Care and Nursing

  4. Research lines Healthy Ageing, Allied Health Care and Nursing Applied Statistical Research  Methods Healthy Lifestyle, Ageing, and Health Care Quantified Self Participation and Health of persons with Mental and Visual Disabilities Clinical Malnutrition and Healthy Ageing Self-management clinical patients Child, Language and Development

  5. >20 PhD research projects on healthy ageing • 60 researchers • Focus on: • Insight in underlying mechanisms of inactivity, malnutrition and frailty - Interventions to increase lifestyle to add extra healthy life years

  6. Hanze Active Ageing Lab

  7. Hanze Active Ageing Lab

  8. Healthy Ageing Ambition Health status Malnutrition Age

  9. We aim to: • Describe normative values of tests to quantify function in elderly • Describe the relationship between several function tests • Describe changes of function, body function, structure and activities/performance over time

  10. Living Labs • Part of national Centre of Expertise Healthy Ageing • Public-private partnerships • To develop innovative solutions for problems in daily practice • PhD projects • Living Lab Active Ageing Elderly • Living Lab Clinical Malnutrition

  11. Targeting all three domains of frailty: Physical frailty Cognitive frailty Social frailty How to reach frail elderly What are effective interventions in frailty Research line Active Ageing

  12. Research line Clinical Malnutrition and Healthy Ageing NutrExercise Malnutrition and frailty Nutritional assessment

  13. Current projects Observational studies: • Role of physical activity in changes in nutritional status in patients with head and neck cancer: the PAP study • Relationship between malnutrition and frailty in patients with COPD and transplant patients • Applicability and validity of PG-SGA (SF & full) in various populations Intervention studies: • Compliance of dairy products in clinical populations with risk for malnutrition • Effect of enriched dairy products on nutritional status in nursing home residents

  14. Proactive prevention of malnutrition Screening, assessment and monitoring of malnutrition Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment www.pt-global.org info@pt-global.org

  15. We look forward to further collaboration!

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