Older people's health and living conditions - from cell to society
The research in this environment ranges from the laboratory bench to the patient's bedside with focus on fundamental research (cellular level) and clinical research in care for older persons within three areas:
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Research domains
- Medicine
Areas of research
- Active life
- Work organization
- Physical activity
- Chronic wounds and skin vulnerability
- Nutrition
- Personcenterd Care
- Eldery
A translational research focus links academic research to patient outcomes. The Ageing Gut research group focuses on gut problems among older people for a healthy aging. The Person Centered Care research group focuses on how a person-centered healthcare can be developed in elderly care considering subjective experiences of the persons involved. The Swedish Centre for Skin and Wound Research is specialized in clinical research about chronic wounds and conditions associated with skin vulnerability. Besides, the focus of the environment is on implementation and on close collaboration with local, national and international networks, municipalities, the Region of Örebro County and the private sector.
Participating researchers lecture at undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate levels.
Researchers
- Samal Algilani
- Dimitri Beeckman
- Robert Jan Brummer
- Karin Falk-Brynhildsen
- Carin Fredriksson
- Mervyn Gifford
- Ann-Kristin Isaksson
- Christina Karlsson
- Annica Kihlgren
- Marie Lidskog
- Scott Montgomery
- Ylva Nilsagård
- Ulla Ohlsson
- Dirk Repsilber
- Ida Schoultz
- Mia Svantesson
- Jenny Windahl
- Erin Rajhathy, PhD student
- Elisa Reinikainen, PhD student
Research projects
Active projects
- Being a manager in health and social care for older persons
- Development and clinical validation of a risk prediction model for incontinence-associated dermatitis (IAD) in a group of hospitalised adult patients
- Good and safe care for elderly persons treated with a catheter in the urinary bladder
- Implementing core values
- Investigating education needs in prone positioning care, an interview study (Pronetection study)
- Model and knowledge support for the development of good palliative care in the home.
- Municipality chief nurses (MAS) obstacles and possibilities to fulfill their duties in municipal health care.
- Nutritional status in older people in need of health and social care
- Physical and psychological characteristics in adolescence and risk of cerebrovascular disease
- Physical and psychological characteristics in adolescence and subsequent gastrointestinal disease risk in adulthood
- Reliability and utility of the Abbey Pain Scale-SWE for pain assessment among people with dementia
- Serenity in old age
- Skin and woundcare at end-of-life: A systematic review
- The older person's path through the health care system -from home to emergency room admission and discharge from in-patient care
- The Swedish version of the Attitude towards Pressure ulcer Prevention instrument for use in an operating theatre (APuP-OR): A Nationwide Psychometric Evaluation
- Working in health and social care for older persons
- Wound Irrigation to Cleanse Non-Infected Chronic Wounds: Clinical Effectiveness and Exploration of International Practice in Home and Community Care
Completed projects
- Ageing and the gastrointestinal microbiome: effects on immunology and cognitive function
- Life situations of relatives assisting family members with long-term chronic illness, old age or disability
- Optimal functionality among older persons
- Rate yourself healthy
- The right to safe living conditions in old age