Our valued member of the INTERDEM website committee has been appointed as professor of Care Environment for Vulnerable Elderly at Maastricht University on 1 February 2020. On 9 July 2021, Prof. Dr. Hilde Verbeek delivered her inaugural lecture ‘A house, a home? How the care environment contributes to the daily lives of frail older people’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The objective of the chair is to improve the development and dissemination of knowledge in the field of quality of life, care and work in elder care; to contribute to the application of this knowledge in education (from intermediate vocational education to university) and to strengthen the social significance of scientific research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As a professor, Hilde Verbeek will set up research into innovation in the care environment for vulnerable elderly people, in particular nursing home care, and its contribution to a meaningful existence. As she said \u201cA house is not automatically a home, although the latter should be the goal of everyone regardless of regardless of your need for help\u201d. Hilde will study how different forms of housing with care contribute to a dignified life for the elderly. Values \u200b\u200bsuch as autonomy, maintaining one’s own identity and meaningful activities form the basis for care provision and support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We wish Hilde all the best in her new function!<\/p>\n\n\n\n