Photo: Gunilla Sonnebring Ida Karlsson's connection to the graduate school SWEAH is strong. She is the main supervisor of Peggy Ler, SWEAH doctoral student. She has also taken the postdoctoral course "From junior to senior researcher in research on aging and health" and participated in SWEAH's mentoring program for postdoctoral fellows. The focus of Ida Karlsson's research is the genetic epidemiol

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Erika Olofsson. Photo: Mattias Pettersson. How are older people undergoing hip fracture affected in terms of pain, function, depression and the risk of increased mortality? Erika Olofsson, a PhD student at the Department of Nursing, is researching this.   To Umeå University webpage

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The workshop is part of the course Theories of ageing. Pre-recorded lectures on the topics have been available for course participants and they have watched them before the workshop. One of the lectures was "Paradigms, Models, and Theories in Social Gerontology: An Overview and History" by Professor Merril Silverstein, Syracuse University, NY, US. Workshop leaders Robin Jonsson and Charlotte Löfqv

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Photo by CDC on Unsplash Jonathan Mak, a SWEAH-affiliated PhD student, recently had a paper about developing an electronic frailty index published. It can potentially be used for frailty screening in geriatric clinics in Sweden. Jonathan Mak comments on the findings: - With the ageing population, performing routine frailty screening in hospitals is important for planning of resource allocation. Th

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SWEAH will be active and visible at the Nordic Congress of Gerontology and we look forward to meeting many of you there!   Please come and see us at our book table in the exhibition area where SWEAH PhD students will hand out information about the research school. Mingle Welcome to the SWEAH mingle on June 8 at 17.30-19.00 at the exhibition stand. We will have snacks, drinks and get-together. Symp

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From left: Susanne Iwarsson, Emilia W.E. Viklund, Sofi Fristedt, 
Charlotte Löfqvist, Arianna Poli, Elias Ingebrand. The symposium was named: Ageing, technology and health in later life: Results from the interdisciplinary national graduate school in Sweden. Chair: Charlotte Löfqvist, Lund University The participants in the symposium were: Sofi Fristedt, Lund University Attitudes and adoption of te

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Photo: Erik Andersson. She has got a new position as Assistant Professor at the Department of Engineering Technology, at DTU, in Denmark. What are your research interests? My research interests revolve around inclusive design and innovation processes with attention to how we design products that better fit the lives of people impacted by those products. In the past years, I have focused on researc

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The course is named "Societal Communication and Impact of Research on Ageing and Health". The course is given by Örebro University and there will be one mandatory workshop in Örebro, December 5-6. Registration form should be sent to Örebro University.   As a SWEAH PhD student you must complete at least two of SWEAH’s courses during your affiliation period (until your defence), one of which must be

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She has worked as a pedagogical developer at Mälardalen University (2011–2012), the University of Skövde (2013) and the University of Gothenburg (2013–2019). Since 2019, she has been a higher education educational developer with a focus on digital competence at Dalarna University.   Lena Dafgård is a Ph.D. in Applied information technology with a focus on educational science. Photo: Johan Wingborg

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The title of Mahwish Naseer´s thesis is "Why do older adults seek emergency care? Impact of contextual factors, care, health, and social relations". One important finding is that older people who were discharged home, instead of being admitted to inpatient care from the emergency department, were at higher risk of emergency care revisit within 30 days of the initial visit. What is your research ab

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/new-light-factors-explaining-older-peoples-emergency-care-use - 2025-08-29

Afsaneh Taei. Most residents had positive things to say about their homes and neighborhoods, even if criminal acts such as shootings, drug dealing, arson, burglary, and knife attacks were part of everyday life. The residents attempted to manage these events with various strategies. Exit strategies included relocation and forms of adaptation and detachment. They used several voice strategies to act

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Charlotte Löfqvist and Robin Jonsson, working closely with the latest SWEAH course. Charlotte Löfqvist is now retiring. She has been study coordinator for SWEAH for four years and previously also responsible for CASE's research school. Charlotte has been very involved in developing the postdoctoral assignments and has many good memories of her work with SWEAH. Charlotte Löfqvist has had the assign

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The study coordinator is part of the graduate school's management team and convenes the graduate school's pedagogical working group. Cecilia Petterson is an assistant senior lecturer at one of the partner universities - Örebro University. She will work as a study coordinator within the framework of her employment there, on behalf of SWEAH. - It is very nice that we are now getting a study coordina

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/cecilia-petterson-sweahs-new-study-coordinator - 2025-08-29

Photo: Jasenka Dobric. Owasim Akram has been awarded a funding of SEK 873 803 by the Expert Group of Aid Studies/Expertgruppen för biståndsanalys (EBA). It has been proposed in partnership with Örebro University, Lund University and University of Bath in the UK. He is the lead researcher in this project. This project will commence immediately after his defence (which will occur in late December th

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Maya Kylén. The project is called "Rehabilitation at home – development of a sustainable model, placing person's needs and environmental resources at heart (InHome)" and will be carried out in close collaboration with Marie Elf at Dalarna University. Maya Kylén has applied for the grant based on her position at Dalarna University; that is, Maya is active at two of SWEAH's partner universities. May

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Mariam Kirvalidze. SWEAH's board decided at its last meeting to offer 20 PhD students affiliation. Meet Mariam Kirvalidze - one of the new students. Mariam Kirvalidze is a medical doctor from Georgia and has a master's degree in public health. The research area is geriatric epidemiology and her research project aims to investigate the informal care of and for older adults in Sweden. - With an agei

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Childlessness is a growing phenomenon in many countries, especially in China. Wenqian Xu will the next three years work with evidence-building, capacity-building and public-engagement activities on the topic "Ageing without children", within this grant. Could you please comment upon this international postdoc grant, what does it mean to you? - I am honored to receive this international postdoc gra

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Samantha Svärdh and Karolina Thörnqvist are missing in this picture. A group of 16 new SWEAH affiliates met for the first time in Lund January 26. The day started with a warm welcome by SWEAH coordinator Susanne Iwarsson and presentation of the rest of the SWEAH management.  Then Erik Eriksson and Agata Yadav, SWEAH PhD students, interviewed each other about their experiences of SWEAH. The main co

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This way into the new year, it is especially nice to welcome new PhD students to SWEAH.   In January, as usual, the management organized an introductory meeting, this time on site at Lund University. What a privilege it is to listen to presentations of new, interesting and important doctoral projects that are under development! The eighteen PhD students who have now joined SWEAH come from differen

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/sweah-newsletter-february-2023-swedish - 2025-08-29

For older persons living in extreme poverty in Bangladesh, it is not the lack of income or assets that stand out when they talk about their situation. Instead, relationships are crucial for their wellbeing, as shown in a new doctoral thesis on older people from Örebro University. https://www.oru.se/english/news/people-living-in-extreme-poverty-value-…  

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/people-living-extreme-poverty-value-relationships-more-assets - 2025-08-29