CommuniCare
Improving communication between people with aphasia, their relatives and healthcare professionals
In healthcare institutions where people with aphasia reside, communication difficulties often exist between people with aphasia, their relatives and healthcare professionals. As a result, the person with aphasia has an increased risk of receiving less appropriate or inadequate care. With CommuniCare, we aim to facilitate this communication.
What
Aphasia is a language disorder resulting from an acquired brain injury. People with aphasia are no longer able to say what they want and may have problems speaking, understanding, reading or writing. Because successful communication leads to increased quality of care, positive health outcomes and patient safety, with CommuniCare we aim to facilitate communication between healthcare professionals and people with aphasia. We offer communication partner training to empower future and current healthcare professionals, break stereotypes and build support around equal opportunities for all patients in the healthcare setting.
Partners
Knowledge institutions
Lizet van Ewijk and Maren van Rijssen, Utrecht University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands
Lianne Remijn and Puck Goossens, Arnhem-Nijmegen University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands
Patient association
Raymond van Buylen, Flemish Association for Aphasia, Belgium
Healthcare institutions
RevArte and University Hospital Antwerp
Onderzoeker
Dorien Vandenborre
Dorien Vandenborre (PhD) has been a lecturer-researcher at the People and Well-being Expertise Centre since 2015. She has expertise in neurogenic communication disorders and qualitative research (in-depth interviews).