The Euregion Meuse Rhine is the only Euregion in the Regions for Health Network (RHN) of the World Health Organization (WHO) since 2013. Marleen van Rijnsbergen, executive of the Province of Limburg (NL) is the political representative of the Euregion Meuse Rhine in the WHO RHN. Brigitte van der Zanden, director of euPrevent, represents the [...]
In this initial, start-up phase of the ‘Senior Friendly Communities’ project, all participating municipalities in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands are subjected to assessments. The purpose of these assessments, which started in May, is to determine how the municipalities currently support their elderly (with beginning dementia and age-related depression) and informal care-givers. Mystery guest visits [...]
In September 2016 various partners from euPrevent's mental health care programme started on the three-year project, ‘Senior-friendly Communities’. The accent is on mental health, with special attention for dementia and age-related depression. Euroregional partners are working on this project together with 30 municipalities from the Euregio Meuse-Rhine (EMR). The aim is to realise senior-friendly municipalities. [...]
WHO Regions for Health Network (RHN), EMR (Euregio Meuse-Rhine), euPrevent | EMR, Maastricht University and NRW Centre for Health joint forces and published: Abstract of the publication Scaling up means to expand or replicate innovative pilot or small-scale projects to reach more people and/ or broaden the effectiveness of an intervention. Based on a narrative literature review [...]