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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 - 2025-12-15

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 - 2025-12-15

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 - 2025-12-15

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 - 2025-12-15

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 - 2025-12-15

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 - 2025-12-15

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 - 2025-12-15

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 - 2025-12-15

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 - 2025-12-15

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 - 2025-12-15

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 - 2025-12-15

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 - 2025-12-15

SWEAH's travelers left an almost 30-degree Sweden and arrived in typical September rain and Stirling half as hot. But then the sun came and a packed program with, among other things, lectures and workshops on quantitative and qualitative methods, and a competition where the best presentations were crowned. The postdoctoral students competed in their own class, where Thomas Lowe from the Netherland

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/old-and-new-contacts-are-made-great-britain - 2025-12-15

SWEAH's research administrator, Stina Elfverson, is taking a six-month leave of absence from October 1, 2024. She is going out and seeing the world. What are you going to do?– I will work as a tour guide, which has long been my "jobby" alongside work at the university. In the past I have traveled a lot in Asia and Europe, but now I am focusing on Africa and will visit Egypt, Madagascar and Namibia

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/pausing-sweah-job-adventures-africa - 2025-12-15

For several years, doctoral students at the research school have been able to travel out into the world and take part in international research in ageing and health. Now SWEAH has granted three more applications, which concern trips to Australia, Italy and Portugal. In this autumn call the following applications were granted: Pernilla Alencar Siljehag, Karolinska InstitutetPernilla is granted 20 0

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/they-are-awarded-sweahs-travel-grant - 2025-12-15

Last September was the application deadline for new PhD students who want to join the SWEAH research school next year. A total of 14 applications were received, from 5 men and 9 women at 5 of the 13 partner universities; Dalarna University, Karolinska Institutet, Linköping University, Lund University and Umeå University. Two of the applications were not complete and will therefore not be processed

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/now-new-doctoral-students-are-reviewed - 2025-12-15

SWEAH alumnus Wossenseged Jemberie, Umeå University, receives Forte establishment grant and alumni Anna Marseglia and Kuan Yu-Pan, KI, receives Forte project grant. Assistant Professor Anna Marseglia at Karolinska Institutet receives Forte project grant - almost SEK 5 million - to a project about gender differences in social health, resilience and cognition across the life course (the interplay of

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/millions-sweah-alumni-projects - 2025-12-15

District nurse and SWEAH PhD student Pernilla Alencar Siljehag, at Stiftelsen Stockholms läns Äldrecentrum, earlier this year received SWEAH's travel grant of SEK 20,000 to visit Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, in Portugal. Now she has returned from an almost two-week stay in Lisbon. Pernilla Alencar Siljehag has presented her research project and gained a substantial exchange of knowledge with other

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/unusually-many-people-over-65-no-home-care - 2025-12-15

The work in SWEAH's management continues with high energy. At the turn of the year, some new people entered as members of the graduate school's board. In addition, alumni have been granted assignments in their postdoctoral career development. The graduate school SWEAH is led by a board consisting of members from SWEAH's partner universities. Affiliated PhD students and a SWEAH alumnus also partici

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/new-commitment-new-year - 2025-12-15

On Tuesday, the new PhD students from partner universities around the country, who have joined the graduate school in 2025, met for the first time. During the introduction day in Lund, they got to meet SWEAH's management and PhD students who have been active in the graduate school since before. Together, the newly admitted PhD students have knowledge and experience from large parts of the world, f

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/here-are-sweahs-new-phd-students - 2025-12-15