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I am managing director at De Wever, organisation for nursing home care, of the cluster Care Center de Heikant and de Kievitshorst.

28th of September 2012 I finished my PhD as a Science Practitioner at Tranzo Department , Tilburg University on my PhD project:

Living with dementia in small-scale and traditional long-term care settings. A longitudinal comparative study on resdients, family and professional caregivers in the Netherlands and Belgium.

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Publications

Principal publications
  • Rooij, A.H.P.M. de, Luijkx, K.G., Schaafsma, J., Emmerink, P.M.J. Schols, J.M.G.A. & Declercq, A.G., Functional status, behaviour and social interaction of residents with dementia living in small-scale and traditional long-term care settings in the Netherlands and Belgium. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease and Parkinsonism, 2012. 2(3): p. 106. 
  • Rooij, A.H.P.M. de, Luijkx, K.G., Emmerink, P.M.J., Declercq, A.G., & Schols, J.M.G.A.,  Professional caregivers' mental health problems and burnout in small-scale and traditional long-term care setting for elderly people with dementia in the Netherlands and Belgium. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 2012. 13(5): p. 486e7 - 486e11. 
  • Rooij, A.H.P.M. de, Luijkx, K.G., Schaafsma, J., Declercq, A.G., Emmerink, P.M.J. & Schols, J.M.G.A., Quality of life of residents with dementia in traditional versus small-scale long-term care settings: A quasi-experimental study. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 2012. 49: p. 931-940. 
  • Rooij, A.H.P.M. de, Luijkx, K.G., Spruytte, N., Emmerink, P.M.J., Schols, J.M.G.A., & Declercq, A.G., Family caregiver perspectives on social relations of elderly residents with dementia in small-scale versus traditional long-term care settings in the Netherlands and Belgium. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 2012.  
  • Rooij, A.H.P.M. de, Luijkx, K.G., Declercq, A.G., & Schols, J.M.G.A., Quality of life of residents with dementia in long-term care settings in the Netherlands and Belgium: design of a longitudinal comparative study in traditional nursing homes and small-scale living facilities. BMC Geriatrics, 2011. 11: 20.

Click here for the complete list of publications (Tilburg University Repository Publications only)

 

Education

1967 - 1972

HBS A (senior vocational programme), Titus Brandsma College Dordrecht

 

1972 - 1973

AFS (American Field Service) exchange student, Wicomico Senior Highschool, Maryland, USA

 

1973 - 1978

Physiotherapy Academy Rotterdam

 

1984 - 1986

Management course for IBW non-profit organisations

 

1988 - 1990

Foundation course in Dutch Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam

 

1992 - 1998

Degree in Dutch Law, Open University, Heerlen. Dissertation: The Psychiatric Hospitals (Compulsory Admission) Act; a law about coercion and resistance?

 

Career

1970-1978

Nursing assistant, 'Het Parkhuis' psychogeriatric nursing home, Dordrecht

Member of Kadettes, Salisbury (voluntary work), an American association for social services

Leader of F.O.K.-camp (camp for children with cystic fibrosis) 1974, 1975

Assistant trainer, Nautilus swimming club; swimming instructor and children's camp leader

 

 

1978 - 1980

Working in private practice, including two care homes for the elderly

Physiotherapist for the Dutch Disabled Sports Federation (Invalide Sportbond)

 

1980 - 1984

Lecturer in Rehabilitation at the Stichting G.R.O.I. foundation

Co-founder of and physiotherapist on the course 'Swimming and water-based exercise for mothers-to-be, Dordrecht

 

1980 - 1989

Head of the Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy department at the 'De Sterrenlanden' nursing home, Dordrecht (combined somatic/psychogeriatric nursing home)

Member of several committees, including chairman of Works Council personnel committee, chairman of staff association, chairman of BOPZ (Psychiatric Hospitals (Compulsory Admission) Act) and Patient Care Incident Reports committee

Project leader of the Multidisciplinary Cooperation working group

Chairman of the Personnel Policy merger working group

Secretary of the national Physiotherapy Management Association (VHF)

Chairman of the Dutch Red Cross, Dordrecht division

 

1998 - 2005

Member of the legislation and regulations sounding board group of the Dutch Nursing Home Care Association (NVVz)

Lawyer/support officer for the regional client council (Overkoepelende Cliëntenraden Drechtsteden), Dordrecht (for the National Patient Councils in Utrecht)

Manager of 'Oosterhof' nursing home (part of the Van Neynselstichting foundation) in Den Bosch

Secretary of the Koopvaardij '40-'45 merchant marine foundation

2007 - 2012

Science Practitioner / doctoral student, Tranzo (Tilburg University)

 

2008 - 2012

Board Member of Hospice 'De Duinsche Hoeve'

 

2005 -  now

Director of 'De Kievitshorst' care center (De Wever)

Since 2012 also of 'De Heikant' care center (De Wever)

 2007 -  now

 Chair of the Registration Committee of Koninklijk Nederlands Genootschap voor Fysiotherapie (Royal Dutch Society for Physical Therapy)

Publications

Principal publications
  • Rooij, A.H.P.M. de, Luijkx, K.G., Schaafsma, J., Emmerink, P.M.J. Schols, J.M.G.A. & Declercq, A.G., Functional status, behaviour and social interaction of residents with dementia living in small-scale and traditional long-term care settings in the Netherlands and Belgium. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease and Parkinsonism, 2012. 2(3): p. 106. 
  • Rooij, A.H.P.M. de, Luijkx, K.G., Emmerink, P.M.J., Declercq, A.G., & Schols, J.M.G.A.,  Professional caregivers' mental health problems and burnout in small-scale and traditional long-term care setting for elderly people with dementia in the Netherlands and Belgium. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 2012. 13(5): p. 486e7 - 486e11. 
  • Rooij, A.H.P.M. de, Luijkx, K.G., Schaafsma, J., Declercq, A.G., Emmerink, P.M.J. & Schols, J.M.G.A., Quality of life of residents with dementia in traditional versus small-scale long-term care settings: A quasi-experimental study. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 2012. 49: p. 931-940. 
  • Rooij, A.H.P.M. de, Luijkx, K.G., Spruytte, N., Emmerink, P.M.J., Schols, J.M.G.A., & Declercq, A.G., Family caregiver perspectives on social relations of elderly residents with dementia in small-scale versus traditional long-term care settings in the Netherlands and Belgium. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 2012.  
  • Rooij, A.H.P.M. de, Luijkx, K.G., Declercq, A.G., & Schols, J.M.G.A., Quality of life of residents with dementia in long-term care settings in the Netherlands and Belgium: design of a longitudinal comparative study in traditional nursing homes and small-scale living facilities. BMC Geriatrics, 2011. 11: 20.

Click here for the complete list of publications (Tilburg University Repository Publications only)

Projects

PhD Project:

Living with dementia in small-scale and traditional long-term care settings. A longitudinal comparative study on residents, family and professional caregivers in the Netherlands and Belgium. 

(2007-2012)

Direct and indirect funding

De Wever, non-profit organization for elderly care

Foundation for Scientific Innovation in Nursing Home Care

Collaboration

 Katholieke Universiteit Leuven/LUCAS

Research supervision

Prof. Dr. J.M.G.A. Schols (promotor)

Prof. Dr A.G. Declercq (promotor)

Dr K.G. Luijkx (co-promotor)

Conferences

Rooij, A. de, Luijkx, K., Declercq, A. & Schols, J. (2010). The impact of small-scale living in the Netherlands and Belgium: Triangulation of data analysis. The Gerontologist, 50(S1), 506.

Rooij, A.H.P.M. de, Luijkx, K.G., Declercq, A. & Schols, J.M.G.A. (2010). Small-scale living facilities in the Netherlands and Belgium. A longitudinal study on patient outcome (abstract). Journal of Clinical Nursing, 19(1), 139-140.

Rooij, I.H.P.M. de, Luijkx, K.G., Declercq, A.G., & Schols, J.M.G.A. (2008). The pro's and con's of small-scale living in The Netherlands. Gerontologist 2008 GSA-congress (abstr 336), 106.

 

 

Other activities

Director at De Kievitshorst & De Heikant, Care Centers (De Wever) in Tilburg, the Netherlands

Chair Committee Registration at Koninklijk Nederlands Genootschap voor Fysiotherapie (Royal Dutch Society for Physical Therapy) in Amersfoort, the Netherlands

Member of the Dutch Society for Health Law

Contact details
Room P 417
PO Box 90153
5000 LE Tilburg 
Phone+31 13 466 4159
Secretary+31 13 466 2969
Email i.derooij@tilburguniversity.edu

Promovendus
TS Social and Behavioral Sciences

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Last amended: 18 December 2012
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