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The Great Gerontology Prize 2025 is awarded to SWEAH's coordinator, Professor Susanne Iwarsson. The prize is given to people who have made a difference in the field of older adults and ageing. The motivation of the Swedish Gerontological Society, which awards the prize annually, is as follows:"Professor Iwarsson is a prominent researcher who for many years has contributed in an exemplary way to th

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/years-gerontology-award-goes-susanne-iwarsson - 2025-12-05

A new SWEAH face appears in the Applied Gerontology research group's premises in Forum Medicum, Lund. The PhD student, economist and self-taught programmer Johannes Malm, now divides his time between Lund and Jönköping Universities (Schools of Health Sciences), as well as Blekinge Institute of Technology. Read the full article on CASE's website.

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/he-wants-contribute-better-life-people-dementia - 2025-12-05

A few questions for SWEAH PhD student Klara Le at Örebro University, who has just returned from a research trip in Sydney, Australia. Klara Le was awarded a travel grant of SEK 50,000 from SWEAH to visit the School of Social Sciences, at Western Sydney University, in Australia during February and March.What have you learned?– I have had a great time in Sydney. During this research visit, I have co

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/so-was-klaras-research-visit-down-under - 2025-12-05

Now they are here, to scrutinize SWEAH’s operations inside and out. Yesterday three external evaluators landed in Lund, to review the Swedish National Graduate School on Ageing and Health. During tuesday and wednesday this week, they will meet with Lund University’s Vice-Chancellor Erik Renström and Deputy Vice-Chancellor Lena Eskilsson, the SWEAH management, alumni and about 30 students who are s

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/evaluators-we-want-learn-about-all-your-secrets - 2025-12-05

The SWEAH postgraduate course 'Gerontology – Multidisciplinary and Integrative Perspectives on Aging', is well underway. On April 3-4 it was time for lectures and seminars and 16 SWEAH PhD students gathered at University of Gothenburg. One of them was Sandra Lukic, from Lund University.How were the days in Gothenburg?– Absolutely fantastic, good lectures and fruitful discussions, as well as very g

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/learned-new-course-ageing-can-be-superpower - 2025-12-05

This spring's SWEAH PhD Student Days on April 8-10 are a creative feast in the art of writing. How do you actually write the best kappa and how do you create a scientific manuscript that really captures the reader? After the first day's workshop "Writing an introduction to a manuscript or cover", the PhD students threw themselves into their own writing. Creativity flowed all around Forum Medicum's

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/how-get-started-your-writing - 2025-12-05

As a researcher, you sometimes have to work a little extra to get your knowledge out there. SWEAH's Impact Officer, Oskar Jonsson, has been training hard during the winter and spring. On May 4, he will embark on a 1,000-kilometer lecture tour on ageing and health – on a tandem bicycle, together with other SWEAH researchers, in the southern Swedish countryside. The plan is to cycle around 50 km a d

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/time-1000-kilometers-bike-research-tour-tandem - 2025-12-05

Lack of choice, clashing views and time pressure are findings in a first article on welfare technology, from the Welfare@home project, which includes SWEAH PhD student Samantha Svärdh, Lund University. Her second article gives us information about four different challenges. – Older adults and staff were often given devices without being involved in the decision. We also saw that technologies that

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/welfare-technology-not-solution-without-user-engagement - 2025-12-05

SWEAH PhD student Pernilla Alencar Siljehag has received an invitation from Latin America's leading and largest institution in public health, the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation in Brazil. – The research group I am going to visit is running a gigantic population study involving six major federal universities. It is reminiscent of the SNAC study, which I am using data from here in Sweden, but in multi-form

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/traveling-and-learning-about-vulnerability-violence-and-grassroots-activism - 2025-12-05

With impact officer Oskar Jonsson, SWEAH will strengthen approaches to collaboration, user involvement and community engagement based on the research and activities conducted within SWEAH. PhD students affiliated with SWEAH will now be involved in his work. – During the spring I will review all theses produced within SWEAH the last three years, says Oskar Jonsson.He focuses on how collaboration wi

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/reviewing-sweah-papers-maximize-societal-impact - 2025-12-05

Is there any point in participating in a graduate school? After qualitative interviews with alumni from SWEAH, a scientific publication has now been published, which establishes that interdisciplinary graduate schools can play a crucial role in educating the next generation of researchers. A few questions to the article's first author Catharina Melander, senior lecturer at SWEAH's partner universi

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/important-new-researchers-deal-uncertainty - 2025-12-05

SWEAH PhD student William Son Galanza at Lund University is back in business after a visit at University of Bologna in Italy, during March to May. – I am surprised by how advanced their research on fall prediction and smart assistive technology is, such as a prototype of smart crutches that allows biofeedback and telemonitoring, he says. William Son Galanza went to meet his mentor from his affilia

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/back-italy-i-felt-potential-international-and-interdisciplinary-work - 2025-12-05

In Sweden he fears a risk of care damage, which likely does not exist in countries like Romania. During three months in the autumn, SWEAH PhD student Glenn Möllergren, Lund University, will live in Romania and find out more about it. First one year in the 1990s and then at a number of longer stays for education and work. Soon a smaller moving load will go to Romania again. Möllergren has received

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/romania-you-bite-bullet-and-do-it-yourself - 2025-12-05

THE PORTRAIT. Ageing has been a common theme throughout her career. With only two years left until retirement, Professor Susanne Iwarsson is starting to slow down – a little. A personal interview with researcher and SWEAH coordinator, Professor Susanne Iwarsson, is published in the magazine Arbetsterapeutenen (in Swedish).

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/long-term-care-clinic-professorship - 2025-12-05

Last fall, the municipality of Härnösand launched an initiative to more effectively support the older adults with rehabilitation and preventive health interventions. The first phase of part of the initiative, in the form of a “task force” led by Eva Ekvall Hansson, Professor of physiotherapy at Lund University, is now being completed. An assessment and intervention team has been established in the

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/task-force-harnosand-project-we-are-already-seeing-positive-developments - 2025-12-05

SWEAH is committed to strengthening approaches to collaboration, user involvement and community engagement based on the research and activities conducted within the graduate school. Now SWEAH PhD students can use a tool to enhance how they connect research with collaborators outside of academia, increase the visibility of research, as well as enhance societal impact. SWEAH offers workshops to furt

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/collaboration-outside-academia-now-being-strengthened - 2025-12-05

The fields of the humanities and arts remain under-represented within ageing research. That is one of the findings in a new publication, based on the content of a gerontology congress last year. The rapidly ageing population in our changing world requires the creation of inclusive, supportive and sustainable societies. According to one of the main authors, SWEAH doctor Isabelle von Saenger, Karoli

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/conclusion-after-congress-embrace-truly-interdisciplinary-and-inclusive-approach-ageing - 2025-12-05

Earlier this summer SWEAH postdoc Wossenseged Jemberie, Umeå University, and PhD student Jeanne Højgaard-Bøytler, Lund University, held a joint lecture on older adults and substance use issues, for around 60 employees in the health and social care and social psychiatry sectors in Skellefteå. Providing person-centred care and care with respect for the individual's self-determination places high dem

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/important-also-substance-users-have-right-self-determination - 2025-12-05

This week, a first workshop was held for SWEAH PhD students who want to learn more about impact, collaborating with actors outside academia and how to reach decision-makers and achieve real change. It is not always easy and it requires structured work, the participants noted. On October 15, SWEAH is arranging a second workshop, when a tool that can facilitate this will be examined in more detail.

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/they-want-create-real-change-their-research - 2025-12-05

Frail older adults can participate meaningfully in research and care, when given appropriate methods and support. But institutional cultures often limit their influence and opportunities. That is revealed in a new thesis defended by Roar Hermansen Østby, University of Gothenburg. He is affiliated to SWEAH since 2022 and examines participation, user involvement and frail older adults.How can the re

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/institutional-cultures-limit-influence-frail-older-adults - 2025-12-05