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Improving Health Related Quality of Life and Independence in Community Dwelling Frail Older Adults through a Client-Centred and Activity-Oriented Program. A Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial.

Patricia De Vriendt, Wim Peersman, Agnes Florus, Marc Verbeke, Dominique Van de Velde
The journal of nutrition, health & aging
2015

INTRODUCTION AND AIM In the ageing society, a considerable part of the older adults are frail. Frailty has a major impact on the individual's quality of life, independence and also on his… (More)

Discriminative power of the advanced activities of daily living (a-ADL) tool in the diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment in an older population.

Patricia De Vriendt, Tony Mets, M Petrovic, Ellen Gorus
International psychogeriatrics
2015

BACKGROUND Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is characterized by subjective and objective memory impairments in the absence of manifest functional decline. Mild changes in activities of daily living… (More)

Linking Frailty Instruments to the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health: A Systematic Review.

Roberta Vella Azzopardi, Sofie Vermeiren, +6 authors Ingo Beyer
Journal of the American Medical Directors…
2016

To date, the major dilemma concerning frailty is the lack of a standardized language regarding its operationalization. Considering the demographic challenge that the world is facing, standardization… (More)

The Active Ageing–concept translated to the residential long-term care

Lien Van Malderen, Tony Mets, Patricia De Vriendt, Ellen Gorus
Quality of Life Research
2012

PurposeActive Ageing (AA), as described by the WHO (Active Ageing: a policy framework. World Health Organisation, Geneva 5), is an important concept in gerontology. Since the AA-concept has not been… (More)

Early diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment and mild dementia through basic and instrumental activities of daily living: Development of a new evaluation tool

Elise Cornelis, Ellen Gorus, Ingo Beyer, Ivan Bautmans, Patricia De Vriendt
PLoS medicine
2017

BACKGROUND Assessment of activities of daily living (ADL) is paramount to determine impairment in everyday functioning and to ensure accurate early diagnosis of neurocognitive disorders.… (More)

Experiences and Effects of Structurally Involving Residents in the Nursing Home by Means of Participatory Action Research: A Mixed Method Study.

Lien Van Malderen, Patricia De Vriendt, Tony Mets, Dominique Verté, Ellen Gorus
Journal of the American Medical Directors…
2017

OBJECTIVES This study aimed to examine the effects of introducing participatory action research (PAR) within the nursing home (NH) on residents' quality of life (QoL) and NH experience and… (More)

Active ageing within the nursing home: a study in Flanders, Belgium

Lien Van Malderen, Patricia De Vriendt, Tony Mets, Ellen Gorus
European journal of ageing
2016

Nursing homes should support residents’ quality of life (QoL). It remains vague, however, how these facilities can create a QoL enhancing environment. Active ageing (AA) is a useful framework in this… (More)

The client-centred approach as experienced by male neurological rehabilitation clients in occupational therapy. A qualitative study based on a grounded theory tradition.

Dominique Van de Velde, Ignaas Devisch, Patricia De Vriendt
Disability and rehabilitation
2016

Purpose To explore the perspectives of male clients in a neurological rehabilitation setting with regard to the occupational therapy they have received and the client-centred approach. Method This… (More)

Enabling meaningful activities and quality of life in long-term care facilities: The stepwise development of a participatory client-centred approach in Flanders

IntroductionMeaningful activities of daily living promote the quality of life of residents of long-term care facilities. This project aimed to develop an approach to enable meaningful activities of...

How Competent Are Healthcare Professionals in Working According to a Bio-Psycho-Social Model in Healthcare? The Current Status and Validation of a Scale

Dominique Van de Velde, Ank Eijkelkamp, Wim Peersman, Patricia De Vriendt
PloS one
2016

BACKGROUND Over the past decades, there has been a paradigm shift from a purely biomedical towards a bio-psycho-social (BPS) conception of disability and illness, which has led to a change in… (More)