Prof. Henk Nies, PhD

Expertise

• Research into policy and organisational aspects of care of the elderly
• Interorganisational collaboration
• Integrated care
• Innovations in care
• Future demand of services for the demented
• Demands and wants of clients of nursing homes and residential homes
• Client participation
• Effects of the so-called substitution policy
• Benchmarking of nursing homes
• Elderly people and residential homes
• Respite care
• Cross-national research

Active as

• Director of Strategy and Development, Vilans
• Professor of Organisation and Policy in Long-term Care, Vrije University, Amsterdam

Endowed professor

• Department of Organisation Sciences (VU), chair: Organisation and policy of care

Completed research projects

Researcher: INTERLINKS Health systems and long-term care for older people in Europe – Modelling the INTERfaces and LINKS between prevention, rehabilitation, quality of services and informal care
Project leader: Action Plan Improvement trajectories