Katya Sion
Maastricht University
Katya Sion
Katya is an empirical researcher with her main focus on improving the quality of long-term care. During her PhD within the ‘Living-Lab in Aging and Long-Term care’ at Maastricht University, she developed the narrative method ‘Connecting Conversations’ that assesses experienced quality of care in nursing homes from the resident’s perspective. Katya is currently working at Maastricht University as an Assistant Professor, during which she is pursuing her scientific research on improving quality of long-term care. In addition, she is a linking pin at a care organization where she translates research into practice and vice versa. She aims to bring theory and practice closer together by adopting a theory-based practice-applied approach in co-creation with all relevant stakeholders. Her research is always connected to the care triad, including clients, their relatives, and care professionals.
FURTHER INFORMATION
| Countries | Netherlands; |
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| Topics | Care Homes; Care outcomes; Dementia care and support; Information and data systems in LTC; Outcome measurement in LTC; Person-centered care; Quality of care; Social connection; Social Prescribing; Unpaid / informal care; |
| Methods | Assessment tool development; Data science and LTC research; Document analysis; Feasibility studies; Focus groups; Grounded Theory; Interviews; Literature reviews and synthesis; Mixed methods; Narrative evaluation methods; Observational studies; Participatory research methods; Pilot study; Practice-based approaches; Qualitative studies; Questionnaire; Scoping reviews; Surveys; Systematic Review; Thematic analysis; Theory and frameworks; Vignettes and narratives; |
| Role | Research; |
| Interest Groups | Quality improvement in Long-Term Care; |
| ORC.ID | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7190-7238 |
| https://www.linkedin.com/in/katya-sion | |
| Other 1 | https://cris.maastrichtuniversity.nl/en/persons/katya-sion; |
| Research interests | How to assess and improve the quality of long-term care for older people.
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| Key publications | Sion, K. Y. J., Heerings, M., Blok, M., Scheffelaar, A., Huijg, J., Westerhof, G., Pot, A. M., Luijkx, K., & Hamers, J. P. H. (2024). How Stories Can Contribute Toward Quality Improvement in Long-Term Care. The Gerontologist, 64(4), Article gnad084. https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnad084 Sion, K., Verbeek, H., de Vries, E., Zwakhalen, S., Odekerken-Schroder, G., Schols, J., & Hamers, J. (2020). The Feasibility of Connecting Conversations: A Narrative Method to Assess Experienced Quality of Care in Nursing Homes from the Resident’s Perspective. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(14), Article 5118. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17145118 Sion, K. Y. J., Haex, R., Verbeek, H., Zwakhalen, S. M. G., Odekerken-Schroder, G., Schols, J. M. G. A., & Hamers, J. P. H. (2019). Experienced Quality of Post-Acute and Long-Term Care From the Care Recipient’s Perspective-A Conceptual Framework. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 20(11), 1386-1390.e1. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2019.03.028 |