Ageing and old age

With special emphases on:

• Developing, test, and evaluate evidence-based practices for:
  - Support to older people and their families along the process of ageing, declining health and long term illness.
• Developing, test, and evaluate:
  - Multidimensional methodology for assessment of aspects relating to the older persons functions and capacities, activity, participation as well as the context they live in.
• Generating knowledge on:
  - How physical, social and cultural environments support activity, participation and interact with care and rehabilitation in older people, and how to design such supportive environments.
  - How to provide rehabilitation and care in relation to complaints, illness, disability and increasing frailty in old age.
  - Interventions in older people’s homes and close surroundings, ranging from nursing care, environmental adaptations, and physical exercises to the provision of assistive devices.
  - How to plan and design research directly targeting the promotion of health along the ageing process and in old age.
  - Facilitators and barriers to life style physical activity among older people with a neurological disability.