Hans Hobbelen is Professor of Ageing and Paramedical Care at the School of Health Studies.
He focuses on finding ways to improve care and support for older people in all manner of settings. Due to population ageing, the number of older people is increasing, along with the number of people requiring increasingly complex care. Together with people from practice, Hans Hobbelen focuses on improving care and support for this group: at home, in hospital and beyond.
Hobbelen is interested in research on paratonia and movement disorders in dementia and frailty, particularly the multidimensionality of frailty. Within the SIA-SPRONG project FAITH research, he is the work package leader of the Database work package, which is working on a research data infrastructure for scientific research in the field of frailty.
Hans Hobbelen began his career in 1988 as a physiotherapist at nursing home De Weerde in Eindhoven, where he worked for 22 years. In 2001, he obtained his master’s degree in movement sciences, and in 2010 he obtained his PhD on the topic of paratonia. This made him a leading scientist in the field of paratonia and movement disorders in dementia.
Furthermore, Hobbelen is a member of the Scientific College of Physiotherapy of the Royal Dutch Society for Physical Therapy (WCF, KNGF), a member of the Clinical Consortium on Healthy Ageing of the World Health Organization (WHO), and since May 2019, chair of the International Association of Physiotherapists working with Older People (IPTOP, official subgroup of World Physiotherapy).
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