Research Group Urban Ageing
How can we contribute to the quality of daily living of older adults in the city? This question is the focus of the Chair of Urban Ageing. This question is increasingly important as older people are expected to fully participate in an ever ageing and urbanizing society.
Every older person should ask herself or himself the question: how can I lead a life in good quality in accordance with my own needs, even if taking part is no longer self-evident or easy? Our society has it responsibilities in facilitating older people. How can facilitate the optimal participation of ageing people with knowledge from the domains of gerontology, social sciences, public administration, architecture and real estate, as well as technology?
In this quest, which revolves around participation in age-friendly city of The Hague; a city in which older people should feel at home, themes like dementia, participation at high age, vitality, ageing-in-place, and diversity of the urban population are being addressed.
Team
Jeroen Dikken
Mari Groenendaal
Rudy van den Hoven
Karin Krens
Esther Kroon
ZsuZsu Tavy
Jeroen Dikken
Contact:
j.dikken@hhs.nlMari Groenendaal
Contact:
mgroenendaal@wzh.nlRudy van den Hoven
Karin Krens
contact:
c.j.m.jakobs@hhs.nlEsther Kroon
Contact:
e.kroon@hhs.nlZsuZsu Tavy
Contact:
z.k.c.t.tavy@hhs.nlAbout the professor
dr hab. ir. Joost van Hoof Eur Ing
Joost van Hoof (1980) attained his MSc degree at Eindhoven University of Technology (Department of Architecture, Building and Physics). He also studied Environmental Engineering at the Czech Technical University (ČVUT) in Prague. Prof van Hoof attained his doctoral degree from Eindhoven University of Technology (in cooperation with Utrecht University of Applied Sciences and the Academy of Healthcare Utrecht) with a dissertation on ageing-in-place for people with dementia in 2010. From 2011 to 2018 he was affiliated with the Centre for Healthcare & Technology of Fontys University of Applied Sciences, and served as the project leader of the Nursing Home of the Future Programme. From 2012 to 2013, Prof van Hoof worked with the ISSO – the Dutch Building Services Research Institute in Rotterdam in the field of healthy building services. Apart from several board memberships in the domain of older people, technology and housing, Prof van Hoof collaborates and is affiliated with several universities abroad. Key to his work is a focus on the abilities of older people, not their disabilities, even when participations seems difficult.
j.vanhoof@hhs.nlProjects
Towards Responsible Rebellion: governance and participation in collective housing for seniors
Publications
Special issue
Special Issue about Age-friendly Cities published
Article
Towards Responsible Rebellion
Article
The challenges of urban ageing: Making cities age-friendly in Europe
Special issue
Special Issue about Age-friendly Cities published
In February 2021, a Feature Paper Special Issue entitled "Age-Friendly Cities & Communities: State of the Art and Future Perspectives" was published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. This special issue features 30 contemporary contributions which relate to the Age-Friendly Cities and Communities initiative launched by the World Health Organization in 2007.
The key focus of this Special Issue is to provide a critical assessment and overview of the state of the art within the Age-friendly Cities arena. Published papers include an editorial, seven papers focusing on age-friendly neighbourhoods, cities, communities, and societies, three papers explore innovative approaches to housing, two papers concentrate on age-friendly transportation, four papers focus on innovative practices in the domain of cure and/or care for older citizens, four papers relate to respect and social inclusion, and nine papers focus on and consider the use and implementation of technology in an age-friendly city or community.
As a take home message, the guest editors, Prof Joost van Hoof (The Hague University of Applied Sciences and Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences) and Dr Hannah R. Marston (The Open University, Milton Keynes) would like to emphasize the need for greater collaboration between disciplines in order to create a truly multisectoral actions for making our cities age-friendly for all generations. The contents of this Special Issue is one of the ways to expand and disseminate knowledge and to facilitate the actual age-friendly agenda and narrative further.
All papers are published as open access papers, which means that they can be read and downloaded free of charge. Direct access to the special issue: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph/special_issues/Age_Friendly_Cities
All papers are also available in book form: https://www.mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/4127