Supporting people and protecting their health also increases the need for informal care and social networks, as well as the importance of expertise in healthy lifestyles. New initiatives often encounter institutional barriers and governance dilemmas between, for instance, decentralisation and centralisation or integration and differentiation. This calls for understanding the paradoxical effects of new policies.
Theme: Institutions
Transitioning from a focus on disease treatment to wellbeing, prevention and safe self-care requires a redesign of social institutions and governance mechanisms and coordination between parties across professional, organizational and sectoral boundaries.
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BASICS for resilience: Resilience and nursing homes after Corona
Following the HERoS study, the BASICS study looks at organizational healing, adaptive capacity & institutional resilience in Dutch nursing homes in the aftermath of COVID-19.
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New governance of decentralized care and support
This study is about the collaborations between the social and medical domains that emerged after the 2015 long-term care reform.
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HERoS - Organizational trauma in nursing homes during COVID-19
Dr. Lianne Cremers and Drs. Cato Janssen conducted a visual ethnographic study of the dilemmas and challenges faced by Dutch nursing home staff during COVID-19 in late 2021, resulting in the ethnographic film Losse Eindjes as part of the EU-funded HERoS project to share lessons and best practices.
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