Robbert J. J. Gobbens (born on 29 January 1963) has a lot of experience as a nurse, lecturer and researcher. Currently, he is affiliated as professor Health and Wellbeing of Frail Elderly to Inholland University of Applied Sciences and Zonnehuisgroep Amstelland, a healthcare organization. Since 2022 he has served as professor Professionalization of Nursing and Care in Elderly Care at Tilburg University; in addition he is visiting professor at the University of Antwerp. He has been involved in research on frail older people since 2005. During his PhD he has developed the Tilburg Frailty Indicator (TFI), a self-report questionnaire for assessing frailty among community-dwelling older people. Gobbens is chair of the Department Geriatrics & Gerontology of V&VN, the Dutch Nurses Association. His other roles include that of editor of Healthcare (Community Care section), and associate editor of Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, BMC Geriatrics, and Frontiers in Medicine (Geriatrics section). He has published more than 200 papers, of which 100 have been included in PubMed.
