Lise Buma
Dr. Lise Buma is currently one of the ReAble network’s coordinators. She is a physiotherapist and works as a postdoctoral researcher and practice linking pin at the Living Lab of Ageing and Long Term Care within the department of Health Services Research at Maastricht University in collaboration with Zuyd University of Applied Sciences. Within her PhD-project her research focused on exploring key features of reablement practices worldwide and to apply these insights to help define, implement, and evaluate reablement in the Dutch context.
Silke Metzelthin
Dr. Silke Metzelthin is an occupational therapist and an assistant professor at Maastricht University. She has considerable expertise in research relating to: Function Focused Care/ restorative care/ reablement; Ageing and frailty; Primary care, acute care and long-term care; Daily functioning/ independency; Informal caregiving; and Intervention research
https://hsr.mumc.maastrichtuniversity.nl/profile/s.metzelthin
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4764-2196
Elly Branderhorst
Elly Branderhorst is an occupational therapist. She has been working with the elderly for over 20 years. In her work as occupational therapist she especially found satisfaction in guiding the elderly to relearn the activities that are important to them. In 2021 Elly completed the Dutch master neurorehabilitation and innovation. During her master’s, she developed the program Longer Active at Home (in Dutch: Langer Actief Thuis (LAT)). This program is based on the principles of reablement. After the master’s Elly started as project leader of the LAT program. Driven by the first successes of the LAT program, she wants to contribute to the development of reablement in the Netherlands. In 2023 she started as a PhD candidate at IQ Healthcare, part of Radboud University in Nijmegen. Her project is focusing on the further development of the LAT program and the further development of reablement in the Netherlands.
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