
Ate DijkstraNHL University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, Netherlands · Research Group iHuman
Ate Dijkstra
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January 1997 - December 2015
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Background
With increasing age, older people are at risk of becoming care-dependent. Care dependency should be detected at an early stage to prevent further complications. In institutional settings, care dependency is assessed by professional caregivers, but in settings where older people live independently, self-assessment is required. Supported h...
Aim
To determine the factorial structure of the German Care Dependency Scale (CDS) for self‐assessment in supported housing in Austria.
Background
The CDS is a well‐established tool for the assessment of care dependency. However, several versions of the scale showed different factorial structures depending on the country and the setting where they...
This article describes the development of an Electronic Care Plan (ECP), in which care agreements are made with patients that fit their individual needs and wishes. This article outlines the development process in more detail, particularly the importance of co-creation. Nurses and carers have taken up the challenge of redesigning their caring proce...
Many countries in the world have to do with an aging population. This article describes the evaluation study of an exergame to support community-dwelling older adults to stay mobile. In this study, we focused on two aspects of mobility: the extent to which a person is able to move about unaided in- and outdoors, and the extent to which a person is...
In Smart Homes set up for demonstration purposes (hereafter: model Smart Homes), innovative Smart Homes and assistive technologies are presented that can enhance the quality of life of older people who continue to live in their own home until a high age. New assistive technologies spread through a network of people - if the innovation can be observ...
In Smart Homes set up for demonstration purposes (hereafter: model Smart Homes), innovative Smart Homes and assistive technologies are presented that can enhance the quality of life of older people who continue to live in their own home until a high age. New assistive technologies spread through a network of people - if the innovation can be observ...
The “House of the Present” is located at the NHL University of Applied Sciences in the city of Leeuwarden in the province of Friesland in the Netherlands. It is a 90 m2 apartment with a kitchen, living room, bedroom, and bathroom. In the “House of the Present” more than 100 objects, solutions, gadgets, and “quick-wins” are presented, which can supp...
During the later stages of dementia, most people will become increasingly frail, which is one of the most common reasons for admission in a nursing home. Life in nursing homes can be characterized by a high degree of patients’ dependency. Especially, many physical, cognitive, and social disabilities of demented in-patients result in dependency on n...
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Written by leading international experts, this book discusses the latest advances in the field of dementia in nursing homes. The topics a...
Om te voldoen aan de wens van veel ouderen om zo lang mogelijk mobiel en sociaal actief te blijven is een digitaal spel ontwikkeld: de Vossenjachtgame. Deze serious game heeft als doel de zelfredzaamheid van thuiswonende ouderen te stimuleren. De vossenjachtgame is in co-creatie met ouderen ontwikkeld.
Care complications are common conditions which affect residents in care homes and often arise from risks associated with their illness. They can be serious and affect the health and quality of life of residents. It is important that nurses are able to assess an individual’s risk of developing complications of care, and determine appropriate prevent...
Purpose:
The purpose of the study was to examine the psychometric properties of the Persian version of the Care Dependency Scale (CDS) in nursing homes.
Design:
Instrument development.
Methods:
The English version of the CDS was translated into Persian. A convenient sample of 140 (100 older people without dementia and 40 patients with dementia...
Introduction: Population is aging in Egypt and age related functional limitations and care dependency are increasing. Functional limitations are a reduced ability to perform necessary activities of daily living. Care dependency is a need of support by others to meet needs if functional limitations are existing. A prerequisite for providing care is...
The “House of the Present” is located at the NHL University of Applied Sciences in the city of Leeuwarden in the province of Friesland in the Netherlands. It is a 90 m2 apartment with a kitchen, living room, bedroom, and bathroom. In the “House of the Present” more than 100 objects, solutions, gadgets, and “quick-wins” are presented, which can supp...
In health care, the design, development and commercialization of innovative products is often found frustrating due to the slow inefficient and difficult nature of its systems. One part of this problem is the fact that health systems are highly regulated complex systems that include various stakeholders and unique challenges. Nevertheless, designer...
The aim of this study was to evaluate risk screening for pressure ulcer by using the Care Dependency Scale (CDS) for patients receiving home care or admitted to a residential or nursing home in the Netherlands.
Pressure ulcer is a serious and persistent problem for patients throughout the Western world. Pressure ulcer is among the most common adver...
Objective:
This study investigates the influence of personal characteristics and health-related variables on the care dependency status among elderly in-patients with clinically diagnosed Alzheimer's disease in two countries.
Methods:
A descriptive cross-cultural survey was administered to a convenience sample of 137 elderly in-patients. Patient...
Many countries in Europe and the world have to cope with an aging population. Although health policy in many countries aims at increasing disability-free life expectancy, elderly patients represent a significant proportion of all patients admitted to different hospital departments. The aim of the research was to investigate the relationship between...
The main aim of our research was to evaluate general health, functioning, and performance parameters, as well as care problems of Geriatric Clinic inpatients in relation to deficits in fulfilling needs. The assessment of health-related quality of life was also performed.
The research subjects were patients attending the Clinic of Geriatrics: 149 wo...
Purpose: The implementation of innovative health technologies is a major challenge for gerontechnology. New technologies struggle to find their place in the practices and routines of various users, including different kinds of healthcare professionals, like nurses. The attitudes of healthcare professionals towards technology (eHealth) and their eHe...
This paper explores the use of design for transfer in simulations and
serious games. Key in this study is the hypothesis that meaningful play can be
achieved by designing for figural transfer by the use of metaphorical recontextualisation.
The Game Transfer Model (GTM) is introduced as a tool for designing
and thinking about serious game design, st...
Bewegen is goed voor het lichaam en voor de geest. Spierkracht is essentieel voor de fitte en vitale oudere. Voor hen geldt het advies om twee keer per week spierversterkende oefeningen te doen (Nelson et al. 2007). Juist die spierversterkende oefeningen worden vaak overgeslagen en/of vergeten (TNO-monitor bewegen en gezondheid 2010). In 2010 werde...
dijkstra a., yönt g.h., korhan e.a., muszalik m, kędziora-kornatowska k. & suzuki m. (2012) The Care Dependency Scale for measuring basic human needs: an international comparison. Journal of Advanced Nursing68(10), 2341–2348.
Aim. To report a study conducted to compare the utility of the Care Dependency Scale across four countries.
Background. The...
Elderly population is characterized by larger need for social welfare and medical treatment than other age groups. Along with aging, there is a number of emerging health, nursing, caring, psychological and social problems. Complexity of these problems results from overlapping and advancing involutional changes, multi-illness, decreased functional e...
Scand J Caring Sci; 2010; 24; 62–66 Care Dependency Scale – psychometric testing of the Polish version
The importance of this study lies in the availability of psychometrically sound assessment instruments, which are of critical importance for the study of patient’s care dependency and the provision of care to these patients. The aim of this study...
Functional efficiency is the ability to be independent in fulfilling the basic needs of everyday life. Independence in meeting these needs is important to maintain a good quality of life (QoL). Chronic diseases affecting elderly people may, to some extent, limit fulfilling numerous needs, however, the acquired ability to live with a disease enables...
This paper is a report of a study determining the relationship of socio-demographic factors to functional limitations and care dependency among older care recipients and non-care recipients in Egypt.
The population is ageing in Egypt and age-related functional limitations are increasing. Age and gender influence this phenomenon, but its relationshi...
Andela RM, Dijkstra A, Slaets JPJ, Sanderman R. International Journal of Nursing Practice 2010; 16: 14–19 Prevalence of frailty on clinical wards: Description and implications
This paper describes the prevalence and frailty level of patients aged ≥ 75 years upon admission to various clinical wards. The data collection took place on five clinical wa...
The aim of this study was to determine the validity and reliability of the modified Arabic Care Dependency Scale for self-assessment of older persons in Egypt and to compare these self-assessments to proxy assessments by care givers and family members.
The Care Dependency Scale is an internationally used instrument to measure care dependency. The A...
The aim of this study is to determine the cultural adequateness of the Arabic version of the Care Dependency Scale (CDS), an internationally used instrument to measure care needs by either self-reports or external assessment. Method: A Delphi study in two rounds about the Arabic version was performed with 37 panelists in Cairo. Acceptance of CDS it...
This paper is a report of a concept analysis to identify a meaning of care dependency that can be shared by both care givers and care recipients.
Care dependency can be perceived from the care recipient's and the care giver's perspective. To allow for comparisons, both sides should share the same understanding of the concept. The current research a...
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In this study, the author evaluated a project in The Netherlands that aimed to promote family members’ participation in care plan meetings at a psychogeriatric nursing home. The small-scale pilot project, which was conducted in four wards of the nursing home, was designed to involve families in health care decisions by allowing family members...
This paper reports an investigation of the diagnostic accuracy of the Care Dependency Scale (CDS).
Assessment tools can be described in terms of diagnostic accuracy, or the ability to correctly classify subjects into clinically relevant subgroups. Diagnostic accuracy can be determined by several techniques as sensitivity, specificity, receiver oper...
This study investigated the dependency level of hospitalized elderly patients, to describe factors associated with elderly patients' care dependency in institutions, and to generate the information as the reliability and validity of the instrument used, the Care Dependency Scale (CDS) for measuring care dependency. Data were collected on 133 elderl...
In this article a research has been described funded by the province Fryslân. The aim of this research project is bipartite. First, to determine the reliability and the validity of the instrument and, secondly, to inquire the involved residents living in old people's homes after the valuation of the use of the Frisian language in the care. The rese...
The Dutch Care Dependency Scale, an instrument for the assessment of a patient's care dependency, has been translated into German. The purpose of this study was to examine the reliability and validity of the German version of the scale. The 15-item scale has been developed for the use in nursing homes. Data were collected from 81 people living in n...
The Dutch Care Dependency
Scale, an instrument for
the assessment of a patient’s care
dependency, has been translated
into German. The purpose of this
study was to examine the reliability
and validity of the German
version of the scale. The 15-item
scale has been developed for the
use in nursing homes. Data were
collected from 81 people living in
n...
Background. The importance of the present study lies in addressing whether it is justified to compare the care dependency status of older patients from different settings and cultures using the same instrument.
Aim. The aim of this international study was to compare the psychometric properties of the Care Dependency Scale (CDS) by analysing data ga...
The purpose of this study was the psychometric evaluation of the German version of the dependency scale in nursing homes and on geriatric wards. The 15-item scale was originally developed in the Netherlands for assessing the care dependency of demented and mentally handicapped patients. Data of 81 nursing home residents and of 115 geriatric patient...
The Nursing Minimum Data Set for the Netherlands (NMDSN) describes nursing care based on nursing phenomena, interventions and outcomes. The validity and reliability of its data collection has not been tested yet.
Purpose: To report about the discriminative validity and the interrater reliability of the NMDSN.
Design: Data were collected in an inten...
The purpose of the study was to examine aspects of reliability and validity of the German version of the Care Dependency Scale (CDS), a Dutch assessment instrument originally developed for demented and mentally handicapped patients. Data of 1806 patients, 60 years or older from a larger sample, collected in 11 hospitals in Germany, were analyzed. R...
The Care Dependency Scale (CDS) is an instrument for assessing functional care demands of psychogeriatric nursing home patients. The purpose of this study was to examine whether the CDS can be used on institutionalized elderly people other than psychogeriatric nursing home patients. Therefore, data were gathered on two different populations: reside...
Are nurses able to assess fatigue, exertion fatigue and types of fatigue in residential home patients?
Although fatigue is recognized as a subjective, generalized, extensive and disabling health care problem with a relatively high prevalence among the chronically ill, there have been no studies to show whether nurses caring for fatigued subjects ar...
The Care Dependency Scale, an instrument for the assessment of patients'care dependency, has been translated into German. The scale was tested on (inter-) rater reliability and criterion and construct validity in a hospital population on geriatric, surgical and paediatric wards. As the results of this study were very satisfying, positive recommenda...
Ein Instrument zur Erfassung der Pflegeabhangigkeit wurde auf Deutsch ubersetzt und im Hinblick auf verschiedene Gutekriterien uberpruft. Die Ergebnisse zeigten sehr zufriedenstellende Werte fur die Reliabilitat und die Indikatoren der Validitat. Daher bestehen aus methodologischer Sicht keine Bedenken fur eine Anwendung des Instrumentes. Es sollte...
In an international, study psychometric properties of the Care Dependency Scale (in Dutch shortened as: ZAS) were examined by analysing data gathered in nursing homes in Germany, Finland, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway and Wales (UK). For that purpose, from these countries a convenience sample was developed consisting of 832 patients with dementia....
An international psychometric testing of the Care Dependency Scale
In an international study, psychometric properties of the Care Dependency Scale (CDS) were examined by analysing data gathered in Dutch, Canadian, Italian and Norwegian nursing homes. For that purpose, from these countries a convenience sample was developed consisting of 525 patient...
The purpose of this study was to examine the reliability and utility of the Care Dependency Scale (CDS). This 15-item scale has been developed recently for assessing the care dependency of demented or mentally handicapped inpatients. Data for this study were collected from 153 demented and 139 mentally handicapped inpatients. The sample was measure...
This paper presents the results from a panel study in the Netherlands of 68 female in-patients with Alzheimer's disease. The main focus of this study was to investigate longitudinal changes and differences in care dependency. Descriptive statistics indicated an increase in almost all 15 features of dependency in a two-year period. A stepwise regres...
• This paper describes the results of a study determining construct validity aspects of the Nursing Care Dependency (NCD) Scale.
• This 15-item instrument has been developed recently for the assessment of the care dependency of dementia or learning-disabled inpatients.
• Data was collected for 450 dementia and 203 learning-disabled patients using t...
Nursing care dependency and similar terms are frequently used in nursing literature. However, their meanings are still to be adequately defined. This paper seeks to operationalize the concept of dependency for use in long-term nursing care practice. An analysis of the concept of dependency, specifically with regard to nursing care, will present a f...
To investigate the relationship between the severity of the patient's care dependency on the one hand, and causes of death, co-morbidity, and survival on the other, and to find out which of these factors might be longitudinal predictors of survival.
A two-year follow-up study started in 1994 in the Netherlands. Subjects were 130 female nursing-home...
The purpose of this study was to examine some aspects of the criterion-related validity of the Nursing-Care Dependency (NCD) scale. This 15-item counting scale has recently been developed for assessing the care dependency of demented or mentally handicapped in-patients. Its criterion-related validity was investigated by studying the relationship be...
This article describing the first phase in the development of an assessment scale of nursing-care dependency (NCD) for Dutch demented and mentally handicapped patients focuses on the background to the study and the content validation of the nursing-care dependency scale. The scale aims to characterize the patients' nursing-care dependency as part o...
Background In working practice the decision to use PDL care is mostly taken as a consequence of care problems that occur, and is based on the knowledge or experience of the employee involved in the care of the patient in question. Within the context of indi- vidual decision-making, and transparency and accountability, it is important to fur- ther s...
Background Care of people who are Powerless in Daily Living (PDL care) is a type of care that a growing number of healthcare facilities use to upgrade the quality of care rendered. It is developed by professionals in the practical setting, for care of people with pow- erlessness e.g. with dementia or a severe chronic disorder.