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Active and Healthy Ageing

Group Leader: Professor Susanne Iwarsson 

The research group does research in gerontology and geriatric care, more specifically in environmental gerontology, with the focus on housing, outdoor environment, public facilities and public transport as supportive environments for older people's activity and health. The geriatric care perspective is characterized by an orientation towards primary care/municipal health care, especially occupational therapy and health-promotion/preventive measures for older people in the community.

The research group has broad experience of method development, above all for assessment and analysis of accessibility problems in the built environment based on the Enabler concept and the Housing Enabler. In addition, the research group is interested in the significance that assistive devices (especially mobility aids) have for older people's everyday activities. Some of the members are working with projects geared to social gerontology or based on common diagnoses such as stroke or multiple sclerosis (MS).

We work deliberately and actively to translate our research findings into practical measures for those working in health care (chiefly in primary care/municipal care) and in housing provision and the design of the physical environment.

The research group is one of fiwe in the Centre for Ageing and Supportive Environment (CASE), with Professor Susanne Iwarsson as Director of the Centre and chair of the CASE board.

 Professor Susanne Iwarsson

Since April 2005 Susanne Iwarsson has held the Maria & Seved Ribbing professorship of gerontology and geriatric care. That chair, along with a couple of other posts in the research group and some operating expenses, are financed by a donation to Lund University by the Foundation Ribbingska Sjukhemmets Minnesfond and the Association for Geriatric Care and Gerontology in Lund.