Research Group Healthy Ageing, Allied Health Care and Nursing

Research Group

Healthy Ageing, Allied Health Care

and Nursing

Hanze University of Applied

Sciences

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

Research Group

Healthy Ageing, Allied Health Care

and Nursing

Research lines

Healthy Ageing, Allied Health

Care and Nursing

Healthy Lifestyle, Ageing, and

Health Care

Participation and Health of

persons with Mental and Visual

Disabilities

Child, Language and

Development

Applied Statistical Research 

Methods

Quantified Self

Clinical Malnutrition and

Healthy Ageing

Self-management clinical

patients

 >20 PhD research projects on healthy ageing

 60 researchers

 Focus on:

- Insight in underlying mechanisms

of inactivity, malnutrition and frailty

- Interventions to increase lifestyle

Hanze

Active Ageing

Lab

Age H e a lt h s ta tu s

Ambition

Healthy

Ageing

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

General   Frailty ?

Quality of life ?

comorbidity Charlson index

Physical fitness

1ste _{anaerobic threshold Bruce ramp test}

Muscle force isometric Humac norm knee extension and flexion

Muscle force isokinetic Muscle fatigue

Muscle mass Echography quadriceps

Walking pattern Gait Rite

Walking speed (comfortable)

Balance Balance board

Daily physical activity Actigraph/Sensewear

Nutritional status

General PG-SGA

Body composition Muscle mass

Body composition BIA

Resting Metabolic rate Cosmed

  Mental fitness

General Qualitative interview

Attention WAFW Vienna test system

Memory ?

Executive functions STROOP

Motor skills ?

Cognitive impairment QMCI

Resilience Groningen Ageing Resilience Scale

Social fitness Social Vulnerability scale

  Factor loadings    Groningen Ageing Resilience Inventory Internal resources External resources 4.  I enjoy learning new things at my age .855 13. I enjoy participating in new activities at my age .812 16. I have confidence in my body to do outdoor activities .647 14. I tend to bounce back after hardship .604 1. I am optimistic .598 15. I use practical solutions to cope with ageing .572 8. I am a flexible person .553 7. I can easily start a conversation .552 2. I give my best effort to stay physically active .538 6.  I feel my life still means something to others* .535 .261 3. During hard times, I trust things will get better* .505 .284 12. Past experiences give me confidence in new challenges* .428 .345   9.   I can share good and bad times with family and friends .775 5.   When sick, I can count on help from friends or family .740 11. When I feel down or lonely, I have someone to turn to .732 10. I have close contacts with my family .731 Initial Eigenvalues  6.03 1.68 Cumulative variance (%) 37.7 48.2

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

Research line Active Ageing

Targeting all three domains of frailty: 1)Physical frailty

2)Cognitive frailty 3)Social frailty

How to reach frail elderly

Research line Clinical Malnutrition

and Healthy Ageing

NutrExercise

Malnutrition and

frailty

Nutritional

assessment

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

Proactive prevention of

malnutrition

 Screening, assessment and monitoring of malnutrition

www.pt-global.org

info@pt-global.org

Patient-Generated Subjective Global

Assessment

We look forward to further

collaboration!