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Persuasive ways to change entrance use of buildings

People tend to use the same door every time they enter and exit a building. When certainentrances are widely preferred over others, congestion can occur. This paper describes twointerventions to persuade visitors to use another entrance. The first intervention used sensory deprivation (darkness), and the second used guidance paths. The first intervention on sensory deprivation had the expected outcome. This intervention resulted in an avoidance of the darkened door. The second intervention had a result contrary to the expectations; it resulted in an increased preference for the door without guidance paths.

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Design of a website for home modifications for older persons with dementia

At present, persons with dementia and their family caregivers in the Netherlands are not adequately supported to modify their dwellings to match their personal needs. To facilitate aging-in-place for persons with dementia, a website was designed. The website was designed with persons with dementia and their spouses. In consultation sessions existing websites were discussed. Based on this discussion, a demonstration website was created and then discussed with and judged by the participants. Visits to the website were monitored using Google Analytics.

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Design of a website for home modifications for older persons with dementia

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Creating age-friendly communities: Housing and technology [book]

The “Creating Age-friendly Communities: Housing and Technology” publication presents contemporary, innovative, and insightful narratives, debates, and frameworks based on an international collection of papers from scholars spanning the fields of gerontology, social sciences, architecture, computer science, and gerontechnology. This extensive collection of papers aims to move the narrative and debates forward in this interdisciplinary field of age-friendly cities and communities. (This book is a reprint of the Special Issue Creating Age-friendly Communities: Housing and Technology that was published in Healthcare)

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Developing eHealth Technology for People With Dementia: Towards a Supportive Decision Tool Facilitating Shared Decision-Making in Dementia

People with dementia are confronted with many decisions. However, they are often not involved in the process of the decision-making. Shared Decision-Making (SDM) enables involvement of persons with dementia in the decision-making process. In our study, we develop a supportive IT application aiming to facilitate the decision-making process in care networks of people with dementia. A key feature in the development of this SDM tool is the participation of all network members during the design and development process, including the person with dementia. In this paper, we give insight into the first phases of this design and development process in which we conducted extensive user studies and translated wishes and needs of network members into user requirements

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Developing eHealth Technology for People With Dementia: Towards a Supportive Decision Tool Facilitating Shared Decision-Making in Dementia

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Urban ageing: prettig en succesvol ouder worden in de stad

Ook uit internationaal wetenschappelijk onderzoek blijkt dat er verschillen zijn tussen ouderen in de stad en op het platteland [3-5]. In de rijke delen van de Europese Unie hebben ouderen in de landelijke gebieden een hogere levenstevredenheid dan in de stad. Mensen lijken tevreden in een dorp, wellicht omdat het verwachtingspatroon geringer is. Als het op veroudering aankomt, biedt de hogere dichtheid van de stad een grotere nabijheid tot allerlei diensten die de kwaliteit van leven van ouderen vergroten. Door specifieke economische factoren kunnen deze diensten niet in dezelfde mate worden aangeboden in landelijke gebieden [6]. Woonomstandigheden, zo blijkt uit onderzoek [7], zijn beter voor onze ouderen in de stad dan op het platteland, hoewel de verschillen niet zo uitgesproken groot zijn. En dan heb je nog de gesegregeerde woonwijken voor ouderen, zoals in de Verenigde Staten. Denk daarbij aan Sun City Arizona en The Villages in Florida [8, 9]. Deze wijken bieden een eenheidsworst en zonderen ouderen af in een cocon van geboden comfort, waarbij zij verdwijnen uit het reguliere straatbeeld van omliggende steden. Een in vrijheid gekozen gevangenschap. Een echte seniorvriendelijke stad is een generatievriendelijke stad zoals u wilt, waar niet alleen ruimte is voor één generatie, maar voor alle generaties: van wieg tot graf.

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Urban ageing: prettig en succesvol ouder worden in de stad

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Seniorvriendelijk Leidschenveen-Ypenburg

De onderzoeksvraag die centraal stond was: Welke specifieke uitdagingen of factoren beïnvloeden de ervaren seniorvriendelijkheid van thuiswonende ouderen in de wijk Leidschenveen-Ypenburg van de gemeente Den Haag? Dit naar aanleiding van de eerste stadsmeting in 2020 waaruit bleek dat de wijk Leidschenveen-Ypenburg het laagst scoorde op seniorvriendelijkheid vergeleken met de andere wijken binnen de gemeente Den Haag (van Hoof et al., 2022). De ervaren seniorvriendelijkheid wordt zowel positief als negatief beïnvloed door vier thema’s: steun van het sociale netwerk, fysieke beperkingen, financiële situatie en copingstrategieën.

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The Challenges of Urban Ageing

Urban ageing is an emerging domain that deals with the population of older people living in cities. The ageing of society is a positive yet challenging phenomenon, as population ageing and urbanisation are the culmination of successful human development. One could argue whether the city environment is an ideal place for people to grow old and live at an old age compared to rural areas. This viewpoint article explores and describes the challenges that are encountered when making cities age-friendly in Europe. Such challenges include the creation of inclusive neighbourhoods and the implementation of technology for ageing-in-place. Examples from projects in two age-friendly cities in The Netherlands (The Hague) and Poland (Cracow) are shown to illustrate the potential of making cities more tuned to the needs of older people and identify important challenges for the next couple of years. Overall, the global ageing of urban populations calls for more age-friendly approaches to be implemented in our cities. It is a challenge to prepare for these developments in such a way that both current and future generations of older people can benefit from age-friendly strategies. CC-BY Original article: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15112473 https://www.dehaagsehogeschool.nl/onderzoek/lectoraten/details/urban-ageing#over-het-lectoraat

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Dementievriendelijke gemeenschappen

Dementievriendelijkheid, wat verstaan we daaronder? Een mooi woord voor de inclusie van mensen met dementie en mantelzorgers in de maatschappij. Op dit moment zijn er in Nederland al 280.000 mensen die leven met dementie. In 2040 is dit aantal naar verwachting verdubbeld naar meer dan een half miljoen. Grote kans dat we er allemaal in meer of mindere mate in onze eigen omgeving mee te maken krijgen. Tijdens het werk, in de familie- of vriendenkring, maar ook in de eigen buurt of de eigen straat.

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Digital consultancy tool for ageing-inplace with dementia

Purpose In order to facilitate ageing-in-place (AiP) with dementia, a digital consultancy tool (DCT) was designed to facilitate modifications to the home environment. In the Netherlands, about 65% of the 270,000 older adults with dementia live in their own dwelling. At the same time, 40% of the Dutch housing stock is not appropriate for older adults to live independently1 . Admission to a nursing home is usually caused by stress and a straining of the family carers. Caring for a person with dementia requires constant vigilance. Although admission to a nursing home cannot always be avoided, admission may be postponed by modifying the dwelling and through the use of technology. At present, persons with dementia are not able to adjust their dwelling to suit their needs. Therefore, it is important that carers and installers have access to information on how to design a dwelling in a dementia-friendly way. Method Based on publications about housing facilities2 , thermal comfort3 and dementiafriendly space plan4 , the design for a DCT for AiP was made. The design of the DCT will be discussed in focus group sessions in Alzheimer Cafés with persons with dementia and their family carers. First, sessions will be held about the requirements for the web tool for dementia-friendly design. After gathering the requirements and verification to (inter)national guidelines concerning the accessibility of webpages, focus group sessions will be held with user groups in order to test the usability of the preliminary DCT. Results & Discussion Results of this process are a webpage with descriptions of how to create a dementia-friendly dwelling for AiP with dementia. On the webpage dementia-friendly modifications of the living environment will be ordered by problem/function or space. Problems are categorized by (I)ADL tasks, behaviour, or cognitive problems. Adjustments of spaces are categorized by the combined model of WHO’s ICF and the Model of Integrated Building Design3,5.

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