Articles

Renewing the Netherlands’ Social Contract for Ageing, Care, Family Responsibility and Collective Solidarity

The Netherlands must decide how public protection, social insurance, municipal support, family care, community participation and personal responsibility should be balanced as its population ages. This article examines the country’s...

The Netherlands Beyond 2040: Building a Sustainable Future for Ageing and Community Care

The Netherlands must prepare for a future in which more people live longer, the working-age population grows more slowly and formal care cannot expand at the same rate as demand....

Digital Government, Integrated Care Data and Local Decision-Making in the Netherlands

The Netherlands has extensive digital infrastructure across health insurance, long-term care, municipal support and clinical services, yet information still follows different legal, financial and organisational pathways. This article examines how...

Climate Resilience and Emergency Preparedness for Older People Across the Netherlands

Climate change is creating new operational risks for Dutch ageing, long-term care and community support, from prolonged heat and flooding to infrastructure failure and disrupted home-based services. This article examines...

Community Partnerships and Voluntary Organisations in the Netherlands: Building Support Beyond Formal Care

Dutch community care increasingly depends on partnerships connecting municipalities, welfare organisations, neighbourhood networks, volunteers, family carers and formal health and long-term care services. This article examines how those relationships operate,...

Workforce Sustainability in Dutch Long-Term Care: Redesigning Roles, Capacity and Everyday Practice

The Netherlands cannot meet rising long-term care demand through recruitment alone. This article examines how workforce availability, professional roles, employment conditions, technology, regional planning and informal care shape the sustainability...

Financing Long-Term Care for Future Generations in the Netherlands

The Netherlands has created broad public protection against the financial risks of long-term care, but population ageing, workforce constraints and rising expectations are testing how that settlement can be sustained....

Preventive Ageing and Healthy Longevity in the Netherlands

Healthy longevity in the Netherlands depends on more than persuading older people to exercise or eat well. This article examines how national prevention policy, municipalities, primary care, housing, neighbourhood services...

Social Participation and Reducing Loneliness Among Older People in the Netherlands

Loneliness among older people in the Netherlands is shaped not only by the number of social contacts someone has, but by health, mobility, housing, bereavement, income, identity and the accessibility...

Assistive Technology Supporting Older Adults Across the Netherlands

Assistive technology can help older people in the Netherlands manage daily routines, maintain independence and remain connected with care, family and community life. This article examines how devices, digital support...

Smart Housing for Independent Living in the Netherlands: Connecting Homes, Care and Community

The Netherlands increasingly depends on housing that enables older people to remain independent while receiving flexible support as their needs change. This article examines how housing policy, municipal planning, long-term...

AI and Predictive Analytics in Dutch Ageing Services: From Early Warning to Responsible Care

Artificial intelligence could help Dutch ageing services anticipate deterioration, reduce administrative burden and direct scarce professional capacity towards people who need it most. This article examines how predictive analytics may...

Data Sharing, Interoperability and Population Health Across Dutch Community Care

The Netherlands is strengthening electronic information exchange across healthcare, long-term care, municipal support and community services, but technical connection alone cannot create integrated care. This article examines how Dutch legislation,...

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...