Care in Connection

Research centre

  • Our research covers these three themes: 
    • Sustainable careers in healthcare
    • The healthcare professional as a collaborator
    • Care tailored to the healthcare user
  • We develop concrete answers to questions about this in healthcare institutions.
  • We develop practice-based tools that can be used in the workplace, such as methodologies, train-the-trainer kits, communication tools, e-books, as well as continued learning programmes and courses. 

In focus

Sustainable careers in healthcare

Together with professionals and our programmes, we are building tomorrow's healthcare profession, ensuring it is a challenging, workable, future-proof, and fulfilling job. In a sustainable career, healthcare professionals feel valued in their job. They have responsibility and autonomy in the performance of their job and sufficient (external) support to do their job properly.   

We focus on individual competences of healthcare professionals and external factors.

The healthcare professional as a collaborator

We provide support to healthcare professionals as collaborators who see added value in sharing their own expertise with others. We focus on improved interdisciplinary and professional collaboration, both within teams and between teams. We focus on dealing with diversity within teams in all its forms and decompartmentalising care and well-being. 

Care tailored to the healthcare user

We strengthen healthcare professionals in their connection with the healthcare user by providing tailor-made care, taking a preventive and targeted approach, and paying attention to accessibility of care for vulnerable healthcare users. Tailor-made care, or person-centred care, focuses on the individual’s and preferences as much as possible and addresses various needs while preserving human dignity. We want to increase patients' digital health literacy and self-management, and we are committed to shared decision-making in care.  

Care path for pregnancy loss and perinatal loss in Born in Belgium Professionals

With this project, we want to help pregnant and new mothers (and their families). This is by providing a care pathway. We focus on mothers who are dealing with pregnancy loss or perinatal loss.
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Duration:
Sep 2024 - Aug 2025
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Center of Expertise:
Care in Connection,
Social Inclusion
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Financing:
PWO

PCA - Primary Care Academy 2024-2029

Here, we want to use research and innovative care concepts to contribute to high-quality and integrated primary care for people in need of care and support, while also paying attention to their immediate environment.
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Duration:
Apr 2024 - Mar 2029
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Center of Expertise:
Care in Connection,
Social Inclusion
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Financing:
Fonds Daniël De Coninck (KBS)

Invisible Loss: Support needs of parents after early pregnancy loss

What are the experiences and support needs of parents at pregnancy loss below 13 weeks? What support offerings can they currently count on? Through this project, we will address these questions.
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Duration:
Sep 2024 - Aug 2026
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Center of Expertise:
Care in Connection,
Social Inclusion
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Financing:
PWO

PATH, perinatal mental health

PATH helps parents, their families and healthcare professionals in preventing, diagnosing and successfully managing mild to moderate mental health symptoms associated with child birth.
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Duration:
Sep 2019 - Sep 2022
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Center of Expertise:
Care in Connection
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Financing:
Interreg 2 Zeeën

Joni Gilissen
Head of research centre
joni.gilissen@kdg.be
+32 3 613 19 29

Researchers

Want to know more, collaborate or have a press enquiry?

You can collaborate with our research centre Care in Connection on topics such as:

  • Knowledge and expertise in various fields, from birth to care for the elderly.
  • Innovative methods to improve healthcare practices for patients and providers.

Contact us without obligation