Vanuit de lectoraten Praktijkgerichte Sportwetenschap en Integraal Jeugdbeleid van de Hanzehogeschool zijn Henriëtte en Roos de afgelopen jaren werkzaam geweest binnen de innovatiewerkplaats ‘Kind in de wijk’. Deze had als doel om bestaande voorzieningen in een wijk op het gebied van actieve gezonde leefstijl en vreedzaam samenleven voor kinderen, te versterken en te verbinden. De stem van het kind stond hierbij centraal en kinderen zijn door middel van participatief onderzoek actief ingezet als onderzoekers. De werkvormen gepresenteerd in deze ideeënwaaier zijn succesvol gebleken in de praktijk.
Boven titel staat vermeld: De symbiose van biologie en technologie. Zowel vanuit het Applied Science onderwijs als vanuit het werkveld kwam er meer vraag om biologische expertise toe te voegen aan het bestaande lectoraat Thin Films & Functional Materials.
At a time when the population is ageing and most people choose to live in their own home for as long as possible, it is important to consider various aspects of supportive and comfortable environments for housing. This study, conducted in South Australia, aims to provide information about the links between the type of housing in which older people live, the weather and occupants’ heating and cooling behaviours as well as their health and well-being. The study used a Computer-Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI) system to survey 250 people aged 65 years and over who lived in their own home. The respondents were recruited from three regions representing the three climate zones in South Australia: semi-arid, warm temperate and temperate. The results show that while the majority of respondents reported being in good health, many lived in dwellings with minimal shading and no wall insulation and appeared to rely on the use of heaters and coolers to achieve thermally comfortable conditions. Concerns over the cost of heating and cooling were shared among the majority of respondents and particularly among people with low incomes. Findings from this study highlight the importance of providing information to older people, carers, designers and policy makers about the interrelationships between weather, housing design, heating and cooling behaviours, thermal comfort, energy use and health and well-being, in order to support older people to age in place independently and healthily. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2019.03.023 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jvhoof1980/
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