Dear CAPHRI community,
We are very pleased to present to you all the CAPHRI Self-Evaluation Report 2017-2022. A huge thank you to everyone who has contributed to this! We are looking forward to the site-visit of the External Review Committee on November 29th and 30th, 2023. In this newsletter, you will also find the programme of the site-visit. For those of you who would like to hear the preliminary conclusions of the External Review Committee, please feel welcome to join us on November 30th, 16:45h at SAAM. We hope to see a lot of you there!
Silvia Evers & Sabina Bulic
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CAPHRI's Self-Evaluation 2017-2022
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For the external review of CAPHRI, a site-visit by an External Review Committee will take place on November 29th and 30th, 2023.
CAPHRI Part A Self-Evaluation Report
CAPHRI has written a Self-Evaluation Report on the period 2017-2022 reflecting on it's mission, vision and strategy.
CAPHRI Part B - Research Lines Self-Evaluation Reports
In the reports below you can find the mission, vision and strategy of the six research lines of CAPHRI, on the period 2017-2022.
CAPHRI's Case Studies Self-Evaluation Report 2017-2022
The CAPHRI case studies contain the scientific and societal Impact in narratives.
You can find the link to CAPHRI's Self-Evaluation Reports and the programme by clicking the image below.
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Green Light for a ZonMw Postdoc Fellowship to Optimize Brain Health through Social and Cognitive Engagement
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Imagine peering into a cozy senior apartment where laughter fills the air. You see a group of senior citizens (65+) playing an intense game of Scrabble. They make jokes and crack their brains over nearly impossible word combinations. This game is more than just a leisure activity; it’s also a training that stimulates the neurons in the brains of the seniors.
Sufficient daily social and cognitive activities can protect against future cognitive decline and dementia. Until now, interventions for dementia prevention have limited attention for promoting such activities in daily life. According to Jeroen Bruinsma from the department of Health Promotion “This is understandable because it's more complex than this example on Scrabble suggests.” And this is exactly where his recently awarded ZonMw postdoc Fellowship comes in.
With this fellowship, Jeroen will pioneer by focusing on both social and cognitive behaviors in seniors' daily lives, contributing to healthy aging and dementia prevention. The project begins by defining and developing a questionnaire to measure these behaviors accurately. This will help to identify areas in which senior citizens can improve. Jeroen emphasizes that “a conversation tool will be developed that allows care professionals to discuss these areas for improvement and set personally relevant goals together with seniors”. During the project, digital and non-digital intervention materials are co-created to assist senior citizens from diverse backgrounds with incorporating small and personalized improvements into their daily routines. As part of the project, seniors will actively engage with this new and personalized approach during a pilot-test to qualitatively explore feasibility aspects. According to Jeroen “he will work together with (inter)national experts, for example with researchers from the Horizon 2020 LETHE project” and “all materials will be readily and open access available to be used by already existing interventions, such as the Dutch digital Vivica lifestyle platform”.
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NWO PhD talent grant to study health inequalities for Ilse Dijkstra
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A PhD talent proposal of Klasien Horstman and Bart Penders for Ilse Dijkstra was selected by NWO Humanities. The proposal is entitled Making up (un)healthy people. Unpacking the scientific engines of health inequalities and Ilse will start with this in September.
Ilse organized a free bachelor European Public Health and she did the master European Studies on Society, Science and Technology, both at Maastricht University, both cum laude.
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Introduction new communications officer
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Hello everyone!
I’m Helen Gilissen, and I was born and raised in the beautiful city of Maastricht. I started my role as a Communications Officer at CAPHRI on September 4th. Before joining CAPHRI, I worked as a Communications Officer at XONAR, a foundation dedicated to children and juveniles with behavioral problems. Prior to that, I served as a Student Assistant Web Editor at the FSE at UM from August 2020 until February 2022.
As a communications officer at CAPHRI, I collect and distribute information through various channels. My role includes creating attractive text and visual content, website management, social media monitoring, and providing support for reporting. I also contribute to community building and relationship management, and the CAPHRI alumni policy.
I’ll be assisting CAPHRI for 24 hours per week, primarily on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays. I’m looking forward to meeting all of you in person. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to me at h.gilissen@maastrichtuniversity.nl!
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ZonMw funds research on data-informed shared decision making in long-term care for older adults
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Recently, ZonMw funded a three-year project regarding data-informed decision making in the Living Lab in Ageing and Long-Term Care. The living lab is a formal multidisciplinary network consisting of Maastricht University, nine large long-term care organizations, Gilde Intermediate Vocational Training Institute, VISTA College and Zuyd University of Applied Sciences.
Data is invaluable to health care: the availability of increasing amounts of data offers new possibilities to support personalized health care. Long-term care organizations (LTC) collect large amounts of data at client, staff and organizational levels. Data in Electronic Health Records or data collected by technological devices such as sensors or wearables, and also qualitative data in the form of text from written documentation or conversations are collected. This data contains a wealth of information for shared decision-making and personalized care. However, to date, these data are collected and stored, but not processed or analysed in LTC.
For questions: s.aarts@maastrichtuniversity.nl
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Interview: New primary care approach gaining traction
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To reduce the workload, researcher Rowan Smeets and colleagues have developed a new working method and vision on general practitioner care, called TARGET. This was commissioned by the Drenthe healthcare group. It started with a pilot among seven general practices in Drenthe, which has now spread like a peat fire across the province: 119 practices have now adopted the new way of working. Interest is also growing outside Drenthe.
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CAPHRI | PhD Ceremonies | October 2023
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Tuesday 3 October, 2023 at 13:00
Jalal Dahham | VHC
Title: "Economic burden of multiple sclerosis in low- and middle-income countries: A case study from Lebanon"
Wednesday 11 October, 2023 at 16:00
Ron Warnier | ALTC
Title: "Frailty screening in older hospitalized patients"
Livestream
Friday 13 October, 2023 at 10:00
Sara Kuiper | VHC
Title: "Patient-centred Haemorrhoidal Disease Management"
Livestream
Friday 30 October, 2023 at 13:00
Michelle Baggerman | PHPC
Title: "The measurement of body composition and outcome in critically ill patients"
Livestream
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