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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 - 2025-10-27

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 - 2025-10-27

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 - 2025-10-27

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 - 2025-10-27

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 - 2025-10-27

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 - 2025-10-27

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 - 2025-10-27

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 - 2025-10-27

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 - 2025-10-27

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 - 2025-10-27

https://www.ctg.lu.se/article/ctg-funded - 2025-10-27

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 - 2025-10-27

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 - 2025-10-27

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 - 2025-10-27

Tove Fall, professor i molekylär epidemiologi vid Uppsala universitet och en av de seniora forskarna i COVID Symptom Study i Sverige, presenterade i dag nya resultat från COVID Symptom Study i Nyhetsmorgon i TV4. Tove Fall berättade bland annat om hur den uppskattade frekvensen av covid-19 i Sverige förändrats under de senaste veckorna och hur ålders- och könsfördelningen ser ut bland studiedeltag

https://www.covid19app.lu.se/artikel/professor-tove-fall-presenterade-idag-resultat-fran-covid-symptom-study-i-nyhetsmorgon-i-tv4 - 2025-10-27

Video: What is Covid Symptom Study and what can we learn from it?

https://www.covid19app.lu.se/artikel/what-covid-symptom-study-and-what-can-we-learn-it - 2025-10-27

Kartor över uppskattad förekomst av symtomatisk covid-19 i den vuxna befolkningen (20-69 år) per område finns nu publicerade på forskningsstudiens hemsida. Professor Tove Fall, professor i molekylär epidemiologi vid Uppsala Universitet och en av de seniora forskarna i COVID Symtpom Study, diskuterade också de nya reslutaten i Aktuellt måndagen 25 maj, se länk till inslaget nedan.Kartor från Stockh

https://www.covid19app.lu.se/artikel/covid-symptom-study-presenterar-nya-kartor-over-uppskattad-forekomst-av-covid-19-i-vastra-gotaland - 2025-10-27

Smittskyddsläkare Eva Melander kommenterar också resultaten från COVID Symptom Study i Sydsvenskan: "Vi följer läget för att vara beredda på allt. Då kan naturligtvis den här typen av instrument vara en värdefull del i vårt arbete för att få koll." Kartor över uppskattad förekomst av symtomatisk covid-19-infektion hos den vuxna befolkningen (20-69 år) i Skåne finns även publicerade på studiens hem

https://www.covid19app.lu.se/artikel/sydsvenskan-publicerar-idag-kartor-fran-covid-symptom-study-med-uppskattad-forekomst-av-covid-19-i - 2025-10-27

COVID Symptom Study är ett forskningsprojekt vid Lunds universitet där allmänheten via en app varje dag registrerar eventuella symptom. Appen är inget diagnosverktyg och ingen smittspårningsapp utan syftet är att kartlägga smittspridningen i Sverige och öka kunskapen om coronaviruset.Länk till senaste nyheter gällande forskningsprojektet.

https://www.covid19app.lu.se/artikel/veckans-nyheter-fran-covid-symptom-study - 2025-10-27

Professor Tove Fall presenterade i lördags resultat från COVID Symptom Study samt berättade om studien i Helgstudion på SVT. I sitt reportage om inslaget i Helgstudion lördagen den 30 maj skriver SVT följande: "Över 160.000 svenskar deltar redan i vad professor Tove Fall beskriver som en "gigantisk epidemiologisk studie". Genom att människor rapporterar in sina eventuella sjukdomssymtom i en app f

https://www.covid19app.lu.se/artikel/svt-nyheter-2020-05-30-over-160-000-svenskar-deltar-i-gigantisk-epidemiologisk-studie-app - 2025-10-27