Tinne Smets
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 319210 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Tinne Smets |
| PRENOMES | Tinne |
| SOBRENOME | Smets |
| ASSINATURA | SMETS T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Vrije Universiteit Brussel |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1439-316X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2010 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Citizens with a caregiving experience in the past year are more likely to participate in neighbourhood activities regarding serious illness, death or loss
While death literacy is believed to foster social connections around serious illness, death and loss, limited evidence exists on whether it stimulates neighbourhood participation concerning these topics. This study measured the association between personal experiences with serious illness, death or loss in the past year and neighbourhood participation around these topics, and whether citizens' self-perceived capacity, skills and self-efficacy dev…
Eu Navigate
Background: Most people who have cancer are older people, and this affects millions of Europeans yearly. Integrating high-quality, equitable, and cost-effective care across the continuum of supportive, palliative, end-of-life, and survivorship care for both patients and family caregivers is highly relevant from a healthcare, prevention, and economic perspective. Aims: EU NAVIGATE is an interdisciplinary, cross-country, and intersectoral project f…
Neighbourhood civic engagement around serious illness, death, and loss
Introduction/background: Worldwide, civic engagement initiatives concerning serious illness, caregiving, and bereavement are gaining momentum, as a result of the increasing interest in communities addressing challenges around these topics. In Flanders too, a diverse range of civic engagement initiatives are being developed, among which two research-initiated neighbourhood initiatives in municipalities in Herzele and Sint-Kruis (Flanders, Belgium)…
INTERVZP - Interprofessional collaboration in Advance Care Planning
Background: Although advance care planning (ACP) can improve goal-oriented and goal-concordant care, it requires substantial interprofessional collaboration to ensure up-to-date information from patients and families is passed along across the care trajectory of the patient. The often-complex care trajectories of patients who would benefit most from ACP, as well as our fragmented care systems is hindering this. Aim: We aimed to explore how to bet…
Researching two Compassionate Cities
Background/Targeted community: Compassionate Cities are social ecology approaches that apply a set of actions, targeting a broad range of stakeholders, with the intention of renormalising caring, dying and grieving in everyday life. While several initiatives have been described in the literature, a rigorous evaluation of their processes and outcomes is lacking. This paper describes the protocol for a mixed-methods study to evaluate the developmen…
How compassionate is your neighborhood? Results of a cross-sectional survey on neighborhood participation regarding serious illness, death, and loss
We conducted a cross-sectional survey measuring the extent and nature of neighborhood participation regarding serious illness, death and loss and the factors that are associated with it. We distributed the survey to 2324 adult citizens in two neighborhoods in Flanders, Belgium, to which 714 citizens responded (response rate 30.7%). Of the respondents, 42.4% participated in at least one action in their neighborhood around serious illness, death, o…
The cultural adaptation of the go wish card game for use in Flanders, Belgium
By making community engagement a cornerstone of our adaption process, we developed a card set that potential end-users considered a supportive public health tool for reflecting and discussing end-of-life values and preferences. The described process is particularly valuable for culturally adapt interventions, especially given that community engagement in adapting interventions is essential to creating grounded interventions
Higher Prevalence of Dementia but No Change in Total Comfort While Dying among Nursing Home Residents with Dementia between 2010 and 2015
Important policy developments in dementia and palliative care in nursing homes between 2010 and 2015 in Flanders, Belgium might have influenced which people die in nursing homes and how they die. We aimed to examine differences between 2010 and 2015 in the prevalence and characteristics of residents with dementia in nursing homes in Flanders, and their palliative care service use and comfort in the last week of life. We used two retrospective epi…
The meaning of art in palliative care from the end users’ perspective
Art activities in palliative care settings must be adapted to the interests and abilities of the end users and supported by an educational and logistic framework
Associations between Length of Stay in Long Term Care Facilities and End of Life Care. Analysis of the Pace Cross-Sectional Study
Long term care facilities (LTCFs) are increasingly a place of care at end of life in Europe. Longer residence in an LTCF prior to death has been associated with higher indicators of end of life care; however, the relationship has not been fully explored. The purpose of this analysis is to explore associations between length of stay and end of life care. The analysis used data collected in the Palliative Care for Older People in care and nursing h…
Dying in long-term care facilities in Europe
The population dying in long-term care facilities is complex, displaying multiple diseases with cognitive and functional impairment and high levels of dementia. We recommend future policy should include integration of high-quality palliative and dementia care
Descriptions of euthanasia as social representations
In many western societies health professionals play a powerful role in people's experiences of dying. Religious professionals, such as pastors, are also confronted with the issues surrounding death and dying in their work. It is therefore reasonable to assume that the ways in which death-related topics, such as euthanasia, are constructed in a given culture are affected by the views of these professionals. This qualitative study addresses the way…
Age-based disparities in end-of-life decisions in Belgium
Age is not a determining factor in the rate of end-of-life decisions, but is in decision making as patient inclusion rates decrease with old age. Our results suggest there is a need to focus advance care planning initiatives on elderly patients. The slippery slope hypothesis cannot be confirmed either in general or among older people, as since the euthanasia law fewer LAWER cases were found
Sex-based Differences in End-of-Life Decision Making in Flanders, Belgium
BACKGROUND: Sex-related differences in end-of-life decisions (EOLD) are underresearched and unexplored. OBJECTIVES: To investigate whether there are (1) differences in demographic and/or clinical characteristics between male and female decedents; (2) differences between men and women in the prevalence of EOLD with a possible or certain life-shortening effect; (3) differences in EOL decision making between men and women. METHODS: In 2007, we perfo…
Cultural differences affecting euthanasia practice in Belgium
Legal Euthanasia in Belgium
OBJECTIVES: To study the reported medical practice of euthanasia in Belgium since implementation of the euthanasia law. RESEARCH DESIGN: Analysis of the anonymous database of all euthanasia cases reported to the Federal Control and Evaluation Committee Euthanasia. SUBJECTS: All euthanasia cases reported by physicians for review between implementation of the euthanasia law on September 22nd, 2002 and December 31, 2007 (n = 1917). MEASURES: Frequen…
Cultural differences affecting euthanasia practice in Belgium
Descriptions of euthanasia as social representations
In many western societies health professionals play a powerful role in people's experiences of dying. Religious professionals, such as pastors, are also confronted with the issues surrounding death and dying in their work. It is therefore reasonable to assume that the ways in which death-related topics, such as euthanasia, are constructed in a given culture are affected by the views of these professionals. This qualitative study addresses the way…
Eu Navigate
Background: Most people who have cancer are older people, and this affects millions of Europeans yearly. Integrating high-quality, equitable, and cost-effective care across the continuum of supportive, palliative, end-of-life, and survivorship care for both patients and family caregivers is highly relevant from a healthcare, prevention, and economic perspective. Aims: EU NAVIGATE is an interdisciplinary, cross-country, and intersectoral project f…
Legal Euthanasia in Belgium
OBJECTIVES: To study the reported medical practice of euthanasia in Belgium since implementation of the euthanasia law. RESEARCH DESIGN: Analysis of the anonymous database of all euthanasia cases reported to the Federal Control and Evaluation Committee Euthanasia. SUBJECTS: All euthanasia cases reported by physicians for review between implementation of the euthanasia law on September 22nd, 2002 and December 31, 2007 (n = 1917). MEASURES: Frequen…
Age-based disparities in end-of-life decisions in Belgium
Age is not a determining factor in the rate of end-of-life decisions, but is in decision making as patient inclusion rates decrease with old age. Our results suggest there is a need to focus advance care planning initiatives on elderly patients. The slippery slope hypothesis cannot be confirmed either in general or among older people, as since the euthanasia law fewer LAWER cases were found
Sex-based Differences in End-of-Life Decision Making in Flanders, Belgium
BACKGROUND: Sex-related differences in end-of-life decisions (EOLD) are underresearched and unexplored. OBJECTIVES: To investigate whether there are (1) differences in demographic and/or clinical characteristics between male and female decedents; (2) differences between men and women in the prevalence of EOLD with a possible or certain life-shortening effect; (3) differences in EOL decision making between men and women. METHODS: In 2007, we perfo…
Cultural differences affecting euthanasia practice in Belgium
Descriptions of euthanasia as social representations
In many western societies health professionals play a powerful role in people's experiences of dying. Religious professionals, such as pastors, are also confronted with the issues surrounding death and dying in their work. It is therefore reasonable to assume that the ways in which death-related topics, such as euthanasia, are constructed in a given culture are affected by the views of these professionals. This qualitative study addresses the way…
Dying in long-term care facilities in Europe
The population dying in long-term care facilities is complex, displaying multiple diseases with cognitive and functional impairment and high levels of dementia. We recommend future policy should include integration of high-quality palliative and dementia care
Associations between Length of Stay in Long Term Care Facilities and End of Life Care. Analysis of the Pace Cross-Sectional Study
Long term care facilities (LTCFs) are increasingly a place of care at end of life in Europe. Longer residence in an LTCF prior to death has been associated with higher indicators of end of life care; however, the relationship has not been fully explored. The purpose of this analysis is to explore associations between length of stay and end of life care. The analysis used data collected in the Palliative Care for Older People in care and nursing h…
Higher Prevalence of Dementia but No Change in Total Comfort While Dying among Nursing Home Residents with Dementia between 2010 and 2015
Important policy developments in dementia and palliative care in nursing homes between 2010 and 2015 in Flanders, Belgium might have influenced which people die in nursing homes and how they die. We aimed to examine differences between 2010 and 2015 in the prevalence and characteristics of residents with dementia in nursing homes in Flanders, and their palliative care service use and comfort in the last week of life. We used two retrospective epi…
The meaning of art in palliative care from the end users’ perspective
Art activities in palliative care settings must be adapted to the interests and abilities of the end users and supported by an educational and logistic framework
The cultural adaptation of the go wish card game for use in Flanders, Belgium
By making community engagement a cornerstone of our adaption process, we developed a card set that potential end-users considered a supportive public health tool for reflecting and discussing end-of-life values and preferences. The described process is particularly valuable for culturally adapt interventions, especially given that community engagement in adapting interventions is essential to creating grounded interventions
Eu Navigate
Background: Most people who have cancer are older people, and this affects millions of Europeans yearly. Integrating high-quality, equitable, and cost-effective care across the continuum of supportive, palliative, end-of-life, and survivorship care for both patients and family caregivers is highly relevant from a healthcare, prevention, and economic perspective. Aims: EU NAVIGATE is an interdisciplinary, cross-country, and intersectoral project f…
Neighbourhood civic engagement around serious illness, death, and loss
Introduction/background: Worldwide, civic engagement initiatives concerning serious illness, caregiving, and bereavement are gaining momentum, as a result of the increasing interest in communities addressing challenges around these topics. In Flanders too, a diverse range of civic engagement initiatives are being developed, among which two research-initiated neighbourhood initiatives in municipalities in Herzele and Sint-Kruis (Flanders, Belgium)…
INTERVZP - Interprofessional collaboration in Advance Care Planning
Background: Although advance care planning (ACP) can improve goal-oriented and goal-concordant care, it requires substantial interprofessional collaboration to ensure up-to-date information from patients and families is passed along across the care trajectory of the patient. The often-complex care trajectories of patients who would benefit most from ACP, as well as our fragmented care systems is hindering this. Aim: We aimed to explore how to bet…
Researching two Compassionate Cities
Background/Targeted community: Compassionate Cities are social ecology approaches that apply a set of actions, targeting a broad range of stakeholders, with the intention of renormalising caring, dying and grieving in everyday life. While several initiatives have been described in the literature, a rigorous evaluation of their processes and outcomes is lacking. This paper describes the protocol for a mixed-methods study to evaluate the developmen…
How compassionate is your neighborhood? Results of a cross-sectional survey on neighborhood participation regarding serious illness, death, and loss
We conducted a cross-sectional survey measuring the extent and nature of neighborhood participation regarding serious illness, death and loss and the factors that are associated with it. We distributed the survey to 2324 adult citizens in two neighborhoods in Flanders, Belgium, to which 714 citizens responded (response rate 30.7%). Of the respondents, 42.4% participated in at least one action in their neighborhood around serious illness, death, o…
Citizens with a caregiving experience in the past year are more likely to participate in neighbourhood activities regarding serious illness, death or loss
While death literacy is believed to foster social connections around serious illness, death and loss, limited evidence exists on whether it stimulates neighbourhood participation concerning these topics. This study measured the association between personal experiences with serious illness, death or loss in the past year and neighbourhood participation around these topics, and whether citizens' self-perceived capacity, skills and self-efficacy dev…
Medicine (13 obras) · Nursing (9 obras) · Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (9 obras) · Psychology (8 obras) · Gerontology (7 obras) · Palliative care (7 obras) · Political science (7 obras) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (6 obras) · Sociology (6 obras) · Demography (4 obras)