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Around 90 people came when SPF Seniors Skåne district arranged a conference on welfare technology and artificial intelligence, AI, on March 20. It was specifically addressed to the members of the municipal and central pension boards in Skåne. The CASE research network participated with the chairman of its user board "Intressentrådet", Stig Ålund, and three researchers. Docent Gunilla Carlsson from

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/new-research-project-presented-conference-welfare-technology-and-ai - 2025-10-19

Two CASE researchers, Wenqian Xu and Oskar Jonsson, have each received a "seed money grant" in the profile area Proactive Ageing's first internal call. Researcher Oskar Jonsson leads the one project, which was granted SEK 250,000 in the call: "Inclusive Living Environments to Attract the Joy of Movement and Promote Physical Activity for Proactive Ageing: Theory and Method Development and Full-scal

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/ai-and-movement-focus-profile-areas-seed-money-grant - 2025-10-19

CASE researchers Arlind Reuter and Susanne Iwarsson were invited to take part in an expert meeting on age-friendly environments in Shanghai last week. The meeting were held at Nordic Centre and was organized by postdoctoral researcher Wenqian Xu, who is employed in the Active and Healthy Ageing research group, Department of Health Science in Lund. He is affiliated with CASE as well as the profile

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/learning-about-experiences-ageing-across-globe - 2025-10-19

Although Sweden is an advanced society, there is always more to do to create more inclusive environment. That became clear when the accessibility researcher Mikiko Terashima from Dalhousie University, visited a CASE Scientific Session at Lund University. Terashima leads a research laboratory at Dalhousie'e School of Planning named "Planning for Equity, Accessibility, and Community Health (PEACH) R

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/least-heard-are-real-accessibility-experts - 2025-10-19

A few questions to CASE's young future researchers before the big conference in Stockholm this week. Samantha Svärdh, PhD student for the research group Applied Gerontology, Center for Ageing and Supportive Environments (CASE). How will you participate at NKG?– I will be doing a poster presentation about one of the sub-studies in my PhD project. The sub-study focuses on user experiences of welfare

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/their-way-nordic-highlight-year - 2025-10-19

At the beginning of July, several of CASE's researchers and PhD students participated in the British Gerontology Society's gathering, BSG Annual Conference 2024. It is one of the largest international research conferences in ageing and health, with researchers from all over the world. This time they met at the University of Newcastle, UK, to share their knowledge.Associate professor Agneta Malmgre

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/case-researchers-and-doctoral-students-international-conference - 2025-10-19

CASE researchers Björn Slaug and Susanne Iwarsson have shown that their instrument for assessing accessibility in housing for the elderly also works in Japan - even though it was originally developed according to Swedish conditions. Swedish research contributes to improving public health in Japan.– Through long-term and careful work, we have been able to transfer it to a very different cultural co

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/japan-takes-help-case-developed-research-tool - 2025-10-19

This week the researchers in the Scandinavian education project NorDigHE meet in Lund. It stands for Nordic Digital Health Education and the goal is to develop a digital education program for healthcare professionals, so that they can provide care in the best way, including with digital tools, in the patients' own homes. The education goes under the name "Hospital@Home" and corresponds to five uni

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/hospitalhome-new-digital-education-denmark-norway-and-sweden - 2025-10-19

Five members of the Sano laboratory at Waseda University in Japan are visiting CASE researchers on the 18-19 of September. They will join a bilateral workshop in Lund and then the Japanese visitors will have a guided tour in the new lab, The Helsingborg Safety Hub, at Campus Helsingborg. The lab is focusing on safety research and education and the project has been funded by Lund University as a ne

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/exchange-knowledge-about-pedestrian-dynamics-evacuation-and-ageing - 2025-10-19

A US colleague of CASE coordinator Steven Schmidt from Clemson University, South Carolina, visited CASE researchers this fall. Director of Clemsons' ageing centre, Dr. Lesley Ross, brought her colleague Dr. Alyssa Gambaldo to learn about the research in Lund and see MoRe-Lab. – We met with several researchers affiliated with the MoRe-Lab to discuss the shared research interests and potential pathw

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/hoping-transatlantic-cooperation - 2025-10-19

Three CASE-researchers visited South Korea last week. They met with several colleagues from Korea University in Seoul to progress their work to develop joint projects, following a series of online meetings during the past year. Read their travelogue here. During our stay, we had the possibility to visit two companies that provide subsidized housing for persons with low incomes. The majority of the

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/visiting-super-ageing-society-asia - 2025-10-19

Recently, Vikki McCall, Professor of Social Policy at University of Stirling in Scotland, visited the research group Applied Gerontology in Lund. Primarily focus was the serious game methodology. She has used it a lot for engagement with communities and stakeholders in her research around housing.What has surprised you the most when working with older adults and the serious game?– I think we shoul

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/serious-games-create-powerful-impact - 2025-10-19

A new 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. In addition to personal reasons, Johannes Malm had several reasons for moving to Lund at the end of

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/he-wants-contribute-better-life-people-dementia - 2025-10-19

To address the lack of evidence regarding the links between housing, relocations, and health along the process of ageing, CASE-researchers for the first time linked comprehensive person and housing data available from population registers in Sweden. Associate Professor Giedre Gefenaite, affiliated with CASE and the profile area Proactive ageing, recently published a cohort profile paper on this, t

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/first-comprehensive-personal-and-housing-data-sweden - 2025-10-19

This year’s first interdisciplinary CASE Scientific Session yesterday, about digital technology, was a collaboration between the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Medicine. And gathered more researchers than usual to these sessions. PhD students from the latter, Samantha Svärdh and William son Galanza, presented their preliminary findings on their work with technologies used in care for older adul

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/hot-topic-ai-and-digital-technology-older-adults - 2025-10-19

CASE Coordinator Steven Schmidt held a talk at Sustainable Built Environment Conference 2025 in Tokyo last month. And learned about sustainable solutions for the future. One of the themes this year was around ageing, with a focus on how the built environment impacts health and well-being.– I was invited to present at a special session “Improving health and well-being”. They wanted to have examples

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/swedish-perspective-asia-conference - 2025-10-19

https://www.ctg.lu.se/article/ctg-funded - 2025-10-19

Researchers keen to work out why some people are suffering from ´long-tail´ form of the virus ´Weird as hell´- the Covid-19 patients who have symptoms for months. Researchers keen to work out why some people are suffering from ´long-tail´ form of the virus.The Guardian, 2020-05-15

https://www.covid19app.lu.se/artikel/weird-hell-covid-19-patients-who-have-symptoms-months - 2025-10-19

Flera stora svenska forskningsfinansiärer har på grund av den pågående covid-19-pandemin beslutat att forskningsanslag som ursprungligen beviljats för andra projekt nu kan styras om mot forskning om covid-19. Efter kontakt med Vetenskapsrådet, Hjärt- Lungfonden och Stiftelsen för Strategisk forskning har alla dessa tre finansiärer ställt sig bakom att projektbidrag beviljade till forskare professo

https://www.covid19app.lu.se/artikel/covid-symptom-study-i-sverige-far-stod-av-vetenskapsradet-hjart-lungfonden-och-stiftelsen-strategisk - 2025-10-19

Lunds universitet har nöjet att meddela att forskare från Uppsala universitet kommer att delta i arbetet med att planera analyser och tolka data från COVID Symptom Study i Sverige. Tove Fall, professor i molekylär epidemiologi, kommer att vara Uppsala universitets seniora representant i forskargruppen. ”Vi har inom diabetesforskningen upparbetat ett välfungerande samarbete mellan Lunds universitet

https://www.covid19app.lu.se/artikel/lunds-universitet-samarbetar-med-uppsala-universitet-i-covid-symptom-study-i-sverige - 2025-10-19