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4 Apr 2022
New SWEAH dissertation on the involvement of professionals in research
Christine Etzerodt Laustsen's research focuses on the involvement of professionals in research in aging and health. It is about how researchers and professionals can benefit from e...
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7 Mar 2022
New SWEAH research shows several health-promoting effects of preventive home visits
Anna Nivestam's research is about health-promoting aspects of preventive home visits to older people, from an individual and a societal perspective. With the help of register data ...
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28 Feb 2022
Symposium: The social aging
SWEAH affiliated Hanna Mac Innes is one of the organizers of a symposium with Professor Merril Silverstein, Professor Kieran Walsh and Professor Sigurveig Sigurðardóttir, March 24 ...
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28 Feb 2022
Trends in population health in an era of increasing longevity - new SWEAH dissertation
Five questions to Anna Meyer, who just had her thesis defence.
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25 Feb 2022
How does socio-economic vulnerability influence housing and health dynamics among older adults in a Swedish context?
Half way review for SWEAH PhD student Agata Yadav.
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16 Feb 2022
SWEAH alumna Louise Sundberg has got a new job at Stiftelsen Äldrecentrum
Congratulations to your new job Louise!
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10 Feb 2022
Urgent need to develop sustainable housing policies for older people in their home environments
SWEAH PhD student Christina Heller just had her Mid-way review: "Simulation models as a tool to compare housing policies for a population aging in place".
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27 Jan 2022
Adjustments needed for the elderly to work after retirement
Robin Jonsson's dissertation Retaining the Aging Workforce: Studies of the interplay between individual and organizational capability in the context of prolonged working lives" is ...
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24 Jan 2022
New SWEAH dissertation shows no general negative effects of retirement on cognitive functioning
Linn Zulka´s study: "On Retirement and Cognitive Aging from a Life-Span Perspective" assessed whether retirement influences cognitive functioning and how inter- and intra-individua...
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12 Jan 2022
SWEAH Milestone Conference - watch the films
SWEAH welcomed everyone who works with aging and health at the partner universities to participate in the conference. The conference gave the participants the opportunity to take p...
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16 Nov 2021
Biological age - "a useful source of information", according to new SWEAH research
SWEAH affiliated Xia Li has defended her dissertation at Karolinska Institutet: Biological ages: correlations, genetic determinants, and health outcomes. She has studied “biologica...
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11 Nov 2021
New article: Doctoral students’ experiences of being affiliated with an interdisciplinary graduate school in aging and health
The aim is to describe the development of a novel interdisciplinary graduate school, using the Swedish National Graduate School for Competitive Science on Ageing and Health (SWEAH)...
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21 Oct 2021
Emilia Viklund winner of the poster competition during the SWEAH Milestone Conference
Emilia Viklund is a SWEAH-affiliated doctoral student in health sciences at the Faculty of Education and Welfare Studies, Åbo Akademi University. In her research, she examines the ...
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14 Oct 2021
Towards a better understanding of what leads to digital inequalities in old age
SWEAH affiliated Arianna Poli, at Linköping University, is defending her dissertation entitled "A Divided Old Age through Research on Digital Technologies".
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13 Sep 2021
Twelve higher education institutions are investing in the graduate school on aging and health
SWEAH 2.0 is the working name of the new venture on the National Graduate School on Aging and Health. Management representatives for all higher education institutions met recently ...