Pieter van Foreest joins Medical Delta Living Lab Geriatric Rehabilitation@Home

Rehabilitation & Recovery (R&H) of Pieter van Foreest recently joined Medical Delta Living Lab Geriatric Rehabilitation@Home. This living lab focuses on the development of e-health applications that promote home rehabilitation of elderly people. In the living lab, Hogeschool Inholland, De Haagse Hogeschool, Hogeschool Rotterdam and Stichting Omring work together with companies, care institutions such as Laurens and Basalt, informal carers and elderly people.

Rehabilitation care for the elderly is developing rapidly. The involvement of Pieter van Foreest offers new opportunities to improve rehabilitation care for vulnerable elderly people. The aim of the living lab is to improve the independence and quality of life of geriatric rehabilitation patients living at home by using e-Health. The wishes and needs of the elderly, informal carers and care professionals are leading. This is done by working together and connecting care practice, education and research.

Innovation and research

"We are very happy with this collaboration as Pieter van Foreest brings a lot of expertise in the field of geriatric rehabilitation," says Dr. Robbert Gobbens, living lab leader and lecturer Health and Wellbeing of Vulnerable Elderly at Inholland University of Applied Sciences. "Pieter van Foreest has been focusing on innovation and research in the Delft and The Hague region for years. We see this collaboration as a strengthening to realise our common goals: faster and better geriatric rehabilitation care by supporting e-Health for elderly people who continue their rehabilitation at home after a clinical intervention."