Jens Offerman, PhD CASE. Photo: Kennet Rouna A few questions for CASE doctoral student Jens Offerman, who recently published about the use of technology during the pandemic. What does it reveal?- The result of our study highlights both the preparedness and the ability to adapt to an unfavorable situation, such as a pandemic among people from three different generations, 30-39, 50-59 and 70-79 year

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/large-increase-technology-use-among-oldest-during-pandemic - 2025-08-23

It is high time that Sweden invests in green and white cities, and finds more ways to cool down vulnerable people. Photo: Hung Tran/Unsplash Increased temperatures in connection with climate change are now inspiring researchers at CASE to identify challenges and develop measures to mitigate and manage excessive heat. On March 19, they will meet in a workshop led by Andrew Karvonen, Professor of Ur

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/scientists-gather-face-climates-hot-dangers - 2025-08-23

Arlind Reuter and Eva Ageberg. Photo: Lill Eriksson Methods developed by CASE researchers are also used in research outside the network of ageing. An article was recently published in sports science, in which CASE's postdoctoral fellow Arlind Reuter is a co-author. – With my background in participatory and design-based methods, I contributed to the development of a participatory workshop methodolo

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Doktoranden Samantha Svärdh var en av forskarna från CASE som föreläste om ett pågående projekt om välfärdsteknik. Foto: Stig Ålund 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

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/new-research-project-presented-conference-welfare-technology-and-ai - 2025-08-23

Eva Ageberg, Oskar Jonsson, Mikael Johansson, Andrea Dell’isola and Rebecca Saaby Mehlum. Photo: Lill Eriksson 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

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CASE researchers joined a whole-week workshop with participants from 13 different countries including researchers, national policymakers and technical experts from the World Health Organization, WHO. Photo: Susanne Iwarsson 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

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/learning-about-experiences-ageing-across-globe - 2025-08-23

Does the environment hinder or enable older individuals with different types of disabilities? Canadian-Swedish research collaboration is investigating this. Photo: Lill Eriksson 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 Scient

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/least-heard-are-real-accessibility-experts - 2025-08-23

Photo: Jakob Dalbjörn/Unsplash A few questions to CASE's young future researchers before the big conference in Stockholm this week. Samantha Svärd, PhD student, Applied Gerontology. Photo: Private 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 abou

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Doctoral student Samantha Svärdh notes differences between different countries' international conferences. Photo: Private 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

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Japan is one of the countries where the ageing population is increasing the most, so the research tool will be widely used, believes Rumiko Tsuchiya-Ito, researcher at the Dia Foundation for Research on Aging Societies. 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 o

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/japan-takes-help-case-developed-research-tool - 2025-08-23

Lund University's Helene Åvik Persson, Gunilla Carlsson, Magnus C Persson, Agneta Malmgren Fänge and Jeanette Johansson are developing a new education together with universities in Norway and Denmark. Photo: Lill Eriksson 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 educatio

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/hospitalhome-new-digital-education-denmark-norway-and-sweden - 2025-08-23

CASE researchers together with visitors from Waseda University in Japan; Tomonori Sano, Sohei Suzuki, Hakushu Miyajima, Kanna Kurami and Saki Masuda. 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 Helsingb

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/exchange-knowledge-about-pedestrian-dynamics-evacuation-and-ageing - 2025-08-23

Steven Schmidt and US visitors Drs. Lesley Ross and Alyssa Gamaldo in MoRe-Lab's kitchen. 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

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/hoping-transatlantic-cooperation - 2025-08-23

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 - 2025-08-23

Professor Vikki McCall from Stirling University visited CASE researchers and talked about the "serious game". 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

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/serious-games-create-powerful-impact - 2025-08-23

Johannes Malm continues to develop his dementia app in Lund. Photo: Lill Eriksson 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 pe

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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 - 2025-08-23

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

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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 - 2025-08-23