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CASE has two visitors this week, Merja Rantakokko, associate professor of gerontology, from the University of Jyväskylä and PhD student Emmi Matikainen-Tervola from the JAMK University of applied sciences/University of Jyväskylä, some 300 kilometers north of Helsinki in Finland. On Wednesday they lecture about their research area; on mobility and gait parameters in older people.–  It will be a bro

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/finnish-researchers-we-have-involve-users-more - 2025-10-15

New types of cohabitation situations surprise the CASE researchers, who have seen changes in social constellations in connection with moving in the later part of life. This is evident in a recently published study from the research groups Applied Gerontology and Active and Healthy Ageing, which have collaborated with a group of researchers at Goethe University in Frankfurt within the Forte-funded

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/she-examines-move-partner-later-life-surprised-new-study - 2025-10-15

The headlines about non-functioning security alarms, about cameras and soon also AI in the home service, are getting more and more. But what happens when the welfare technology does not work? Next year, a new research project will be launched which will investigate this very thing. The CASE researchers, associate professors Gunilla Carlsson, Connie Lethin and Agneta Malmgren Fänge, have in previou

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/after-technology-alarms-new-study-examines-back-sides-welfare-technology - 2025-10-15

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 years. Six out of ten respondents increased their

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/large-increase-technology-use-among-oldest-during-pandemic - 2025-10-15

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 Urban Design and Planning at LTH. Since the massive heat wave in Europe in August 2003, researchers have been investigating how cities can impl

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/scientists-gather-face-climates-hot-dangers - 2025-10-15

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 methodology, through which we could elicit strategies that ca

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/researchers-advice-youth-handball-based-case-method - 2025-10-15

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 participated with the chairman of its user board "Intressentrådet", Stig Ålund, and three researchers. Docent Gunilla Carlsson from

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/new-research-project-presented-conference-welfare-technology-and-ai - 2025-10-15

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 Joy of Movement and Promote Physical Activity for Proactive Ageing: Theory and Method Development and Full-scal

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/ai-and-movement-focus-profile-areas-seed-money-grant - 2025-10-15

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 Nordic Centre and was organized by postdoctoral researcher Wenqian Xu, who is employed in the Active and Healthy Ageing research group, Department of Health Science in Lund. He is affiliated with CASE as well as the profile

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/learning-about-experiences-ageing-across-globe - 2025-10-15

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 Scientific Session at Lund University. Terashima leads a research laboratory at Dalhousie'e School of Planning named "Planning for Equity, Accessibility, and Community Health (PEACH) R

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/least-heard-are-real-accessibility-experts - 2025-10-15

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 - 2025-10-15

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 - 2025-10-15

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 - 2025-10-15

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 - 2025-10-15

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 - 2025-10-15

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 - 2025-10-15

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 - 2025-10-15

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 - 2025-10-15

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 - 2025-10-15

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 - 2025-10-15