The Development and Validation of the Psychological Empowerment Scale for Older People.

Empowerment is a central paradigm in the care for older people. Social work requires measuring instruments to be able to meaningfully justify its efforts and interventions. This study aims at the validation of the Psychological Empowerment Scale for Older People, a measuring instrument build on this operationalization.

A Conceptual Exploration of Psychological Empowerment with Older People. A Tailored Concept Mapping Approach.

Empowerment is central in gerontological social work. Operationalizing empowerment from the perspective of the target population is important to align with context specific interpretations of what empowerment means. This study aims at operationalizing psychological empowerment from the perspective of older people.

[Check valves : Important facts for safe use].

Patients benefit from the use of check valves when drugs with a particularly short half-life (e.g., catecholamines) are continually administered through a one-way valve or when an accidental retrograde bolus application must be prevented, as in the event of a rapid sequence induction and intubation.

External Validation of Models for Predicting Disability in Community-Dwelling Older People in the Netherlands: A Comparative Study.

Background: Advanced statistical modeling techniques may help predict health outcomes. However, it is not the case that these modeling techniques always outperform traditional techniques such as regression techniques. In this study, external validation was carried out for five modeling strategies for the prediction of the disability of community-dwelling older people in the Netherlands.

Unequal excess mortality during the Spanish Flu pandemic in the Netherlands.

A century after the Spanish Flu, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought renewed attention to socioeconomic and occupational differences in mortality in the earlier pandemic. The magnitude of these differences and the pathways between occupation and increased mortality remain unclear, however. In this paper, we explore the relation between occupational characteristics and excess mortality among men during the Spanish Flu pandemic in the Netherlands.