BOOKS & REPORTS

Berdai Chaouni S. (2024). Moving toward inclusive dementia care for an ethnically diverse population in Belgium. In The Routledge international handbook of disability and global health. Eds. Ned L., Rivas Velarde M., Singh S. Swarts L. & Soldatic K. Chapter 44, pp 645-658

 

Claeys, A. (2024). Culturally sensitive care: perceptions, challenges, and educational strategies. PhD-dissertation, Vrije Universiteit Brussel. (promotors: Liesbeth De Donder) 

 

Dikmans, B. et al. (2024). Rethinking Life Stories in the Context of Civic Engagement: The Life Diagram and Its Potential for Ageing and Childhood Research. In: A. Wanka, T. Freutel-Funke, S. Adresen, F. Oswald, Linking Ages: A Dialogue between Childhood and Ageing Research. London, UK: Routledge.

 

Dikmans, B. (2024). Covid-19, Inequality and Older People: Everyday Life During the Pandemic. C. Lewis, C. Philipson, S. Yarker and L. Lang. Bristol University Press: Policy Press, Bristol, UK, 2023, 160 pp., pbk £27.99, ISBN 13: 978-1447367444. Ageing & Society. 

 

Kint, O. (2024). Building Caring Neighbourhoods: Exploring Unexpected Connections Through Co-creative Research. PhD-dissertation, Vrije Universiteit Brussel. (promotors: Liesbeth De Donder and An-Sofie Smetcoren) 

 

Phlix, M. (2024). THE AGEING-MIGRATION-HOME NEXUS: Exploring Older Migrants' Sense of Home and Subjective Wellbeing. Translating Insights to Design. UHasselt, 2024, 390 p. PhD-dissertation, UHasselt. (promotors: Ann Petermans,  Jan Vanrie (Un Hasselt) and An-Sofie Smetcoren) 

 

Suero, P. et al. (2025). Challenges to a transformative application of age-friendly programmes around the world. In Ageing and Urban Planning (1st ed.). Routledge. 

 

Stegen, H. (2024). Beyond the usual path: Exploring childlessness and loneliness in later life. PhD-dissertation, Vrije Universiteit Brussel. (promotors: Liesbeth De Donder and Eva Dierckx) 

 

Mosseray, J. et al. (2023). Follow-up research: Living together and care within CALICO. Gewestelijke Overheidsdienst Brussel (GOB) - Brusselse Huisvesting - Bruxelles Logement.

 

Dury, S. et al. (2023). SEE ME Training Toolkit. Brussel: Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

 

Van Hove, L., et al (2023). NSSI in elementary-school children. In E.E. Lloyd-Richardson, I Baetens & J. Whitlock (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Nonsuicidal Self-Injury (pp. C25S1–C25P78). Oxford University Press. Advanced online publication.

 

Van Hove, L., et al (2023). NSSI in older adults. In E.E. Lloyd-Richardson, I. Baetens & J. Whitlock (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Nonsuicidal Self-Injury (pp. C29S1–C29P115). Oxford University Press. Advanced online publication. 

Hoens, S. (2022). At the interplay of care and migration: examining the potential of community health workers and live-in migrant care workers to answer older adult’s unmet care needs. PhD-dissertation, Vrije Universiteit Brussel. (promotors: Liesbeth De Donder and An-Sofie Smetcoren) 

Bakelants H. (2024). Navigating serious illness, death, and bereavement in higher education: insights from the compassionate university program at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). PhD-dissertation, Vrije Universiteit Brussel. (promotoren: Sarah Dury, Joachim Cohen and Filip Van Droogenbroeck).

 

Berdai Chaouni, S. (2021). Grasping Fading Memories of a Motherland: Capturing Dynamic Care Realities of Older Labor Migrants with Dementia. PhD-dissertation, Vrije Universiteit Brussel. (promotor: Liesbeth De Donder) 

 

Berdai Chaouni, S. et al. (2021). The fallacy of migrants-culture preventing access to care in later life. I. In Migration, Equality, Racism: 44 opinions (pp. 141-148). VUB. 

 

De Cooman, R. et al. (2021). Covid-19’s impact on the world of work: Challenges for employees’ person-environment fit, work-family interaction and retirement plans. In S. Van Puyvelde, & C. Buts (Eds.), Critical Contributions To Economics And Beyond: Liber Amicorum Marc Jegers (pp. 521-536). Berlin: Lexxion. 

 

Switsers, L. (2021). Only the Lonely?! Challenging Stereotypes on Loneliness among Older People. PhD-dissertation, Vrije Universiteit Brussel. (promotors: Liesbeth De Donder, Sarah Dury and Eva Dierckx)  

 

Van Regenmortel, S. et al. (2021). Exclusion from Social Relations Among Older People in Rural Britain and Belgium: A Cross-National Exploration Taking a Life-Course and Multilevel Perspective. In Social Exclusion in Later Life: Interdisciplinary and Policy Perspectives (pp. 83-98). (International Perspectives on Aging; Vol. 28). Springer.

 

Walsh, K. et al. (Eds.) (2021). Social Exclusion in Later Life: Interdisciplinary and Policy Perspectives. (International Perspectives on Aging; Vol. 28). Springer. 

Dawance, T. et al. (2020). CALICO: Soin, genre et rencontre intergénérationnelle au coeur d'un habitat en commun. In A. Fourneaux (Ed.), Les Echos du Logement: 100 ans de logement social. Et demain? (SPW Territoire Logement Patrimoine Energie ed., Vol. 127, pp. 28-33). [5] (Echos du Logement; No. 127). Namur. 

 

Petermans, A. et al. (2020). Design for wellbeing in architecture and interior architecture: Educating future designers on ageing well in place. In A. Petermans, & R. Cain (Eds.), Design for wellbeing: an applied approach (pp. 45-59). New York: Routledge.  

 

Smetcoren, A. S. et al. (2020). Care and Living in Community, CALICO, Intermediate evaluation. CALICO.

 

Smetcoren, A. S. et al. (2020). An applied approach to housing in later life. In A. Petermans, & R. Cain (Eds.), Design for wellbeing: an applied approach (pp. 194-205). New York: Routledge.  

Dawance, T. et al. (2019). Care and Living in Community, CALICO. Groundwork for evaluation and state-of-play. Brussel: VUB.

 

De Donder, L. et al. (2019). Quality of life of abused older women: moderating influence of coping mechanisms. In H. Bows (Ed). Violence Against Older Women, Volume II. (pp 123-142). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.  

 

De Donder, L. et al. (2019). Elder Abuse and Mistreatment in Flanders: Prevalence and Prevention. In M. Kapur Shankardass (Ed.) International Handbook of Elder Abuse and Mistreatment. Singapore: Springer.  

 

Pan, H. (2019). Social participation in later life: A focus on environmental challenges. PhD-dissertation, Vrije Universiteit Brussel. (promotoren: Liesbeth De Donder en Sarah Dury) 

 

Berdai Chaouni, S. et al. (2018). How to (qualitatively) involve older people with dementia and their informal caregivers with a migration background in research? Insights from a longitudinal research. In K. Hannes, B. Dierckx de Casterlé, & A. Heylighen (Eds.), European Congress of Qualitative Research Proceedings 2018 (pp. 63-71). KU Leuven.  

 

Duppen, D. (2018). Frailty in later life: a focus on the social environment and positive outcomes. PhD-dissertation, Vrije Universiteit Brussel. (promotor: Liesbeth De Donder) 

 

Fret, B. (2018). Who cares?! A comprehensive study on care and support in community-dwelling older adults. Focus on access, expenditures and follow-up. PhD-dissertation, Vrije Universiteit Brussel. (promotor: Dominique Verté)

 

Lambotte, D. (2018). Care and support in later life: A study on the dynamics of care networks of frail, community-dwelling older adults. Brussels: ASP / VUBPRESS. (promotoren : Tinie Kardol and Liesbeth De Donder) 

 

Smetcoren, A.S., et al. (2018). Towards an Active Caring Community in Brussels. In T. Buffel, S. Handler, & C. Philipson (Eds.), Age-friendly communities: A Global Perspective (pp. 97-118). Bristol: Policy Press Publishing.