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    • Summer school

    Advanced Practice Summer School Models of Care with APNs - Leadership, Outcomes and Sustainability

    From individual roles to the model of care - The Advanced Practice Summer School empowers advanced practitioners and nurse managers to explore their clinical leadership skills, fostering the development of...

    24.06.2025 until 27.06.2025 – BFH, Schwarztorstrasse 48, 3007 Bern

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    Sustainable nutrition: young and old in dialogue

    14.05.2025 What can young people and senior citizens learn from each other in the field of sustainable nutrition? A BFH research project focusses on intergenerational dialogue on nutrition.

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    More freedom for patients in hospital

    22.04.2025 Measures put in place by hospitals to protect patients can also restrict their freedom. A BFH project has investigated how this protection can be achieved without the use of freedom-restraining measures.

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    Remote Care Emmental promises relief for GPs

    03.03.2025 A BFH project is investigating how telemedicine and digital networking can relieve the burden on GPs in rural areas. Sang-Il Kim, co-director of the Swiss Center for Care@home, outlines the project.

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    Closing the gap in care for mothers experiencing mental health issues after childbirth

    26.02.2025 For women who suffer from mental health issues after giving birth, finding a therapy facility that allows them to bring their child with them is not always easy. One potential solution is a model for...

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    How to measure stress without stress

    24.02.2025 A team of researchers at BFH are using a new analytical approach to measure stress without causing additional stress, thereby helping to combat staff shortages in the healthcare sector.

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    Menopause is not just a women’s issue

    24.01.2025 Our society is ageing. Up to now, one aspect of the demographic discourse has been largely ignored: the menopause. Researchers at BFH want to include the topic in two studies.

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    Addressing the quality of life in dementia

    28.11.2024 Can people with dementia have a good quality of life? A study conducted by three BFH researchers aims to get to the bottom of this question.

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    Homeless seniors: life in the shadows

    11.11.2024 The lives of older homeless adults, some without shelter for years, are poorly documented. With its research project, BFH aims to lay the foundations for more targeted support for homeless seniors.

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    «EFAS alone is not a magic bullet»

    04.10.2024 On 24 November 2024, the Swiss population will vote on the amendment to the Federal Health Insurance Act (KVG). The objective of this law is the uniform financing of outpatient and inpatient services in...

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    “Medicine increases life expectancy”

    18.03.2024 People in Switzerland are taking more and more medication. For Niklaus Meier, health economist at BFH, this is not a bad sign. Medicine is partly responsible for the fact that our life expectancy is increasing.

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    Digitalisation in care: pros and cons

    20.12.2023 Digitalisation is on everyone’s lips. More and more data, sensors, applications and interfaces are being used, and healthcare is no exception. Friederike J.S. Thilo carries research in this field and...

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