Diablend: Blended lifestyle care for diabetes remission

In a recently published interview, Rimke Vos, programme manager for research/university lecturer at the LUMC Campus The Hague highlighted that people with type 2 diabetes benefit from a healthy lifestyle that closely matches their needs, capabilities and preferences. With the Diablend project, a personalised, tailor-made approach is being developed in The Hague, starting in deprived neighborhoods Schilderswijk and Bouwlust-Vrederust. The collaborative project was co-funded with PPP grants made available by Health~Holland, to stimulate public-private partnerships.

'We have already taken a lot of steps. In March we will start with a pilot,' says Rimke Vos, programme manager for research/university lecturer at the LUMC Campus The Hague. Not just treating diabetes, but also looking at a person's physical, mental, behavioral and socioeconomic core characteristics. From this holistic vision, Diablend, an initiative of Lifestyle4Health in which TNO and the LUMC Campus The Hague collaborate, started in September 2020. 

The main goal of Diablend is to develop an ecosystem for personalised lifestyle support for people with type 2 diabetes throughout The Hague. A pilot will start in March 2022 to test the approach and gain experience. 

You can read the whole interview here in Dutch. More information about this project is written (in English) on our website.

Source: Gezond en Gelukkig Den Haag