Activities
Staff number : >=250
Description of activities
ZithaSenior S.A. is a middle sized company running 4 nursing homes. ZithaSenior provides care to approximately 400 old and infirm residents and offers save jobs to nearly 650 employees. Research activities started in 2010 by the newly founded department of research and development. ZithaSenior research focuses on one main general theme, which is quality of life (QoL).
- QoL of our residents (e.g., with and without dementia; alcohol related brain damaged individuals). The general objective of the research conducted is (1) to explore new developments in geriatric long term care, (2) to facilitate the integration of those developments in an applied context, and (3) to evaluate the efficiency of these new developments.
- QoL of our employees. Providing care to severely ill old people puts an important burden on carers. Our research constantly evaluates workload and work satisfaction and directly integrates findings in the development of our homes.
Main application domains
Scientific expertise and knowledge transfer in the field of:
- Geriatric long term care
- Long term care and rehabilitation of alcohol-related brain damaged individuals (i.e., Korsakoff syndrome)
- Cognitive psychology
- Geriatric rehabilitation
Products and services
- Planning, implementation, and evaluation of research projects addressing the question of quality of life in various fields of geriatric long term care
- Assessments
- Geriatric assessments (i.e., cognitive, affective, mobility)
- Assessments through self-ratings and other-ratings
- Rehabilitative assessments (e.g. GaitRite® system)
Trading area
Luxembourg
International locations
Greater Region, Europe
Additional information
In addition, the R&D department is in close cooperation with the geriatric rehabilitation unit of the ZithaKlinik S.A., providing state-of-the-art cognitive and motor rehabilitation to old adults.
