Articles

Digital Health Across Dutch Community Care: Connecting Technology, Professional Practice and Independent Living

Digital health is becoming central to how the Netherlands supports older people at home, coordinates community services and manages growing workforce pressure. This article examines the technologies, legal frameworks, purchasing...

Leadership and Governance Across Dutch Community Care

Leadership in Dutch community care extends beyond individual provider organisations because responsibility is distributed across municipalities, health insurers, care offices, professionals and national oversight bodies. This article examines how governance...

Quality Improvement Across Dutch Long-Term Care: Turning National Expectations into Everyday Practice

Dutch long-term care is moving towards a broader understanding of quality centred on people’s lives, relationships and changing support needs rather than service location alone. This article examines how the...

Measuring Outcomes Rather Than Activity Across Dutch Long-Term Care

Dutch long-term care generates extensive information about services, staffing, expenditure and compliance, but activity alone cannot show whether people retain autonomy, experience continuity or live meaningful lives. This article examines...

Supporting Family Caregivers Across the Netherlands: Making Mantelzorg Sustainable

Family caregivers are central to the Netherlands’ ambition to support more people within their own homes and communities, yet their contribution cannot be treated as an unlimited substitute for professional...

Building the Dutch Community Care Workforce for an Ageing Population

The Netherlands cannot sustain community care through recruitment alone as demand rises and the available workforce grows more slowly. This article examines how Dutch organisations can strengthen district nursing, home...

Rehabilitation, Recovery and Preventive Care Across the Netherlands

Dutch rehabilitation combines specialist geriatric recovery, primary and community healthcare, district nursing, temporary care and preventive action across several funding systems. This article examines how older people move from hospital...

Dementia Care and Dementia-Friendly Communities Across the Netherlands

Dutch dementia care extends far beyond diagnosis and specialist treatment. This article examines how the updated National Dementia Strategy, general practice, regional dementia networks, case management, municipalities, community organisations and...

Dementia Care in the Netherlands: National Strategy, Community Support and Living Well After Diagnosis

The Netherlands is reshaping dementia policy around living well, timely support, dementia-friendly communities and better coordination across healthcare, municipalities and long-term care. This article examines the updated National Dementia Strategy,...

Home Care Services Across the Netherlands: Access, Delivery and Sustainable Support at Home

Home care in the Netherlands is delivered through several statutory routes rather than one unified service. This article examines how district nursing, municipal assistance, intensive long-term care at home, personal...

Municipal Responsibility and Local Government in Dutch Community Care

Dutch municipalities hold extensive responsibility for helping residents remain independent, participate in society and access non-medical community support. This article examines how the Social Support Act 2015 translates national duties...

Ageing in Place: Why Most Older Dutch Citizens Remain Independent for Longer

Ageing in place in the Netherlands depends on far more than providing care inside an existing home. This article examines how housing, municipal support, district nursing, primary care, prevention, technology...

Integrated Care in the Netherlands: Connecting Health, Social Care and Community Support

Integrated care in the Netherlands depends on collaboration across health insurers, municipalities, general practice, district nursing, hospitals, long-term care organisations and community partners. This article examines how statutory boundaries shape...

How Long-Term Care Works in the Netherlands: Funding, Insurance and Public Responsibility

Dutch long-term care is organised through several connected statutory systems rather than one unified service. This article explains how the Long-Term Care Act, mandatory health insurance and municipal social support...

The Netherlands' Ageing Population: Building Sustainable Long-Term Care for an Older Society

Population ageing is reshaping the Netherlands’ long-term care system, housing strategy, workforce requirements and expectations of families and communities. This article examines how national insurance, municipal support, district nursing, residential...