Free public lecture hosted by the Department of Gerontology at Simon Fraser University, Wednesday, June 8, from 3:00pm-4:30pm, room 1530 at SFU Harbour Centre.
Speaker: Susanne Iwarsson, who holds the endowed Maria and Seved Ribbing Professorship in Gerontology and Care for Older People (2015) at the Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Sweden.
Summary: Although a comprehensive approach that addresses the capacities, needs, and changing contexts in which older people live in is needed, the paucity of studies on home, health, and disability along the continuum of ageing is striking. The knowledge of the situation affecting different population segments is even weaker.
The expansive ENABLE-AGE project started in 2002 as an EC-funded initiative involving five countries, and has grown through a series of of follow-ups and new, inter-related studies. The over-riding and complex research task is to study objective and perceived aspects of home as related to aspects of health along the process of ageing in different European countries, as well as among different age cohorts and groups with specific diagnoses in Sweden.
A cross-cutting theme is to contribute to the development and optimization of methodology for comparative, longitudinal research on home, health, and disability dynamics, with specific attention to mixed-methods approaches. The evolving knowledge base has relevance for ageing and health research targeting different groups of the ageing population, with potential to nurture the development of evidence-based housing interventions and housing provision supporting activity, participation, and health in later life.
