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Debby L. Gerritsen

Open University of the Netherlands · NL
Area of research
General Health Professions · Psychiatry and Mental health
Research interest
Research interests include Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes, Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research, Health disparities and outcomes, and Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints.
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39
citations
4,926
works
341
NIH funding
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Recent publications

From bubbling to boiling over: a meta-ethnography of the process towards and during crisis from the perspectives of persons living with dementia, informal carers and healthcare professionals.
2026cited by 1position: contributordoi
Measuring dementia-related stigma in the Dutch general public: Translation and validation of the dementia public stigma scale.
2026cited by 0position: contributordoi
Mapping mood-improving behaviors in nursing homes: development and evaluation of the Actions to Improve Mood inventories.
2026cited by 0position: contributordoi
How is autonomy supported for people with dementia living in a nursing home, to what extent and under what circumstances? A realist evaluation.
2025cited by 3position: contributordoi
Failure or success of self-organizing teams in long-term care organizations: an integrative systematic literature review on the role of the organization structure.
2025cited by 1position: contributordoi
Determinants of Mortality and Causes of Death in Patients With Dementia and Very Severe Challenging Behavior.
2025cited by 1position: contributordoi
A longitudinal cohort study on dispensed analgesic and psychotropic medications in older adults before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic: the HUNT study.
2025cited by 1position: contributordoi
Patient characteristics, behavior, and discharge locations of patients with dementia and very severe challenging behavior.
2025cited by 1position: contributordoi
A Voice-Enabled Intelligent Virtual Agent for People with Memory Impairments: Thematic Analysis of Focus Group Results
Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2025cited by 1position: contributordoi
Behavioral and Psychological Manifestations Among People Living With Dementia: Current Challenges Related to Terminology, Their Implications, and a Way Forward.
2025cited by 0position: contributordoi
Tailored interventions for inappropriate psychotropic drug use in nursing home residents with dementia: participatory action research in a special case of a stepped-wedge cluster randomized controlled trial.
2025cited by 0position: contributordoi
Cognitive function, physical function, and mental health in older adults amid reduced primary and specialist healthcare service use during COVID-19: the HUNT study.
2025cited by 0position: contributordoi
Measuring implicit associations with behaviours to improve resident mood: development of implicit association tasks for nursing home care providers.
2025cited by 0position: contributordoi
Development and Validation of the EBP-Affinity Questionnaire: A Mixed-Method Study.
2025cited by 0position: contributordoi
The Role of Social Media in Mitigating the Long-Term Impact of Social Isolation on Mental and Cognitive Health in Older Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The HUNT Study.
2025cited by 0position: contributordoi
Correction: Developing a research agenda on NATure‑based and Animal‑assisted Intervention Strategies (NATAIS) in people with neurodegenerative diseases with a specific focus on social isolation and loneliness: a group concept mapping procedure.
2025cited by 0position: contributordoi
Agitation in cognitive disorders: Progress in the International Psychogeriatric Association consensus clinical and research definition.
2024cited by 46position: contributordoi
Reduction and prevention of agitation in persons with neurocognitive disorders: an international psychogeriatric association consensus algorithm.
2024cited by 18position: contributordoi
Learning From People With Dementia What Works Well for Well-Being: Interviews and Focus Groups.
2024cited by 4position: contributordoi
A longitudinal cohort study on the use of health and care services by older adults living at home with/without dementia before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: the HUNT study.
2024cited by 4position: contributordoi
The development and feasibility evaluation of a program to identify and manage apathy in people with dementia: the SABA program.
2024cited by 4position: contributordoi
Transferring people with dementia to severe challenging behavior specialized units, an in-depth exploration.
2024cited by 3position: contributordoi
Organizational characteristics of highly specialized units for people with dementia and severe challenging behavior.
2024cited by 3position: contributordoi
Evaluation of the SPAN intervention for people living with young-onset dementia in the community and their family caregivers: a randomized controlled trial.
2024cited by 2position: contributordoi
A bayesian network meta-analysis to explore modifying factors in randomized controlled trials: what works for whom to reduce depression in nursing home residents?
2024cited by 2position: contributordoi
Personality assessment in nursing home residents with mental and physical multimorbidity: two informant perspectives.
2024cited by 2position: contributordoi
A Process Evaluation of an Antibiotic Stewardship Intervention for Urinary Tract Infections in Nursing Homes.
2024cited by 2position: contributordoi
The development of the PET@home toolkit: An experience-based co-design method study.
2024cited by 1position: contributordoi
Developing a research agenda on NATure-based and Animal-assisted Intervention Strategies (NATAIS) in people with neurodegenerative diseases with a specific focus on social isolation and loneliness: a group concept mapping procedure.
2024cited by 1position: contributordoi
The PET@home Toolkit: A Process Evaluation Study
2024cited by 0position: contributordoi

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Frequent collaborators

· 22 papers (2019–2026)Sytse U. Zuidema · University Medical Center Groningen22 papers (2019–2025)Richard C. Oude Voshaar · Tilburg University12 papers (2020–2025) · 10 papers (2021–2026)Ine Declercq · Vrije Universiteit Brussel7 papers (2023–2026)Martin Smalbrugge · Elsevier, Inc.7 papers (2019–2026)Sverre Bergh · Akershus University Hospital5 papers (2024–2025)Gill Livingston · Anglia Ruskin University4 papers (2024–2025)M.-J. Enders-Slegers · University of Colorado Denver4 papers (2023–2025)Karin Hediger · Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin4 papers (2023–2025)Inge A. H. Knippenberg · Open University of the Netherlands4 papers (2021–2026)Jacques van Lankveld · Open University of the Netherlands4 papers (2023–2026) · 3 papers (2021–2023)Rose-Marie Dröes · Amsterdam University Medical Centers3 papers (2019–2021)Zahinoor Ismail · Institute of Population and Public Health3 papers (2020–2024)Jenny Theodora van der Steen · King's College London3 papers (2021–2023) · 3 papers (2023–2026)Anke Persoon · Radboud University Nijmegen3 papers (2023–2026)Wilco P. Achterberg · Primary Health Care3 papers (2021–2023)Jeffrey L. Cummings · New York University3 papers (2020–2024)