Joost van Hoof works as a full professor of Urban Ageing (Faculty of Social Work & Education, The Hague University of Applied Sciences). His research interests lie in the domain of age-friendly cities and the design of housing and (socio-)gerontechnology. He is the chairperson of the Knowledge Platform Age-Friendly The Hague. Since December 2017, he is also affiliated with the Department of Spatial Economy of the Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences in Poland. He has a background in Building Physics and Services (Eindhoven University of Technology, 2004) and obtained his doctoral degree (PhD) from the same university in 2010. In addition, he obtained the Eur Ing qualification from the European Federation of National Engineering Associations in 2007. In 2019, he gained his higher doctoral degree (DSc) from Warsaw University of Life Sciences. Van Hoof won various awards, including the 2017 EFID award for doing research with people living with dementia, and the REHVA Young Scientist Award 2011. He is a member of the Supervisory Board of Habion (social housing association for older people) and the Board of Directors of Vastgoed Zorgsector. From 2011 to 2022, he served as the treasurer of the Herman Bouma Fund for Gerontechnology Foundation.]
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Joost van Hoof, Dsc,PhD, MSC (Eng), Eur Ing
The Hague University of Applied Sciences
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Publications
van Hoof, J., Dikken, J., Buttiġieġ, S.C., van den Hoven, R.F.M., Kroon, E., Marston, H.R. (2020) Age-friendly cities in the Netherlands: An explorative study of facilitators and hindrances in the built environment and ageism in design. Indoor and Built Environment 29(3):417-437. doi: 10.1177/1420326X19857216
van Hoof, J., Yu, C.W. (2020) Editorial – Ageing communities, supportive housing and enabling built environments. Indoor and Built Environment 29(3):295-298. doi: 10.1177/1420326X20905916
van Hoof, J., Marston, H.R. (2021) Editorial. Age-Friendly Cities and Communities: State of the Art and Future Perspectives. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18(4):1644. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18041644
van Hoof, J., Dikken, J., van Staalduinen, W.H., van der Pas, S., van den Hoven, R.F.M., Hulsebosch-Janssen, L.M.T. (2022). Towards a better understanding of the sense of safety and security of community-dwelling older adults. The case of the age-friendly city of The Hague. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19(7):3960; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19073960
van Hoof, J., van den Hoven, R.F.M., Hess, M., van Staalduinen, W.H., Hulsebosch-Janssen, L.M.T., Dikken, J. (2022) How older people experience the age-friendliness of The Hague: A quantitative study. Cities 124: 103568 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2022.103568