Aging Research Center (ARC) E-mail: ingemar.kareholt@ki.seHomepage: www.sweold.se |
Ingemar "Pingo" Kåreholt, Ph. D., is Associate Professor, senior fellow and senior researcher at ARC which is affiliated both to Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University. Kåreholt's research encompasses a wide range of topics which revolve around the general themes of health, aging and the life situation in later life. His main research fields are:
- The effect of socioeconomic position during the life course on mortality and health in old age,
- Longitudinal analysis of intra- and interpersonal changes in health over time, particularly in old age, and
- Socioeconomic differences in the social consequences of disease.
Other research interests include the impact of health and social factors on disease, elder care and health trends, as well as methodological issues related to the study of aging in general and changes over time in particular.
He is presently collaborating with Professor Margaret Gatz at the Department of Psychology, University of Southern California; Dr Ross Andel at the School of Aging Studies, University of Southern Florida; Dr Sven Trygged and Dr Pia Tham at the Department for Social Work, Stockholm University; and Dr Kozma Ahacic at the Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet.
Kåreholt has been a member of the SWEOLD research group since 1994. He was a research assistant from 1994 to 1998, a Ph. D. student from 1998 to 2000, a junior fellow/assistant professor at ARC from 2000 to 2007, and has been a senior fellow/associate professor since 2007.
Selected publications
Lundberg, O. and Kåreholt, I. (1996). “The Social Patterning of Mortality in a cohort of Elderly Swedes”. Yearbook of Population Research in Finland; Vol. 33.
Kåreholt, I. (1997). Arbetslösheten i Sverige under högkonjunkturen 1986-1990 - En deskriptiv studie av kort- och långvariga arbetslöshetsproblem. (Swedish unemployment during the business boom of 1986-1990 – a description of short-term and long-term unemployment problems). Stockholm: Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University.
Kåreholt, I. and Brattberg, G. (1998). “Pain and Mortality Risk among Elderly Persons in Sweden”. Pain. Vol. 77.
Kåreholt, I. (2000). Social Class and Mortality Risk. (Doctoral thesis.) Stockholm: Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University.
Kåreholt, I. (2001). “The long shadow of socioeconomic conditions in childhood: do they affect class inequalities in mortality?” in Jonsson J.O. and Mills C. (eds.) Cradle to Grave. Life Course Change in Modern Sweden. York: Sociologypress.
Kåreholt, I. (2001) “The relationship between heart problems and mortality in different social classes”. Social Science & Medicine; Vol. 52.
Larsson, K., Thorslund, M., Kåreholt, I. (2006). “Are public care and services for older people targeted according to need? Applying the Behavioural Model on longitudinal data of a Swedish Urban Older Population”. European Journal of Ageing, 3(1): 22-33.
Trygged S, Kåreholt I. (2007) Återgång i arbete bland yngre strokepatienter—effekter av socioekonomisk position. Socialmedicinsk tidsskrift. 6: 504-510.
Solomon A, Kåreholt I, Ngandu T, Wolozin B, MacDonald S, Winblad B, Nissinen A, Tuomilehto, J, Soininen H, Kivipelto M. (2007) Serum total cholesterol, statins and cognition in non-demented elderly. Neurobiology of Aging, accepted 2007, published online Nov 2007.
Larsson K, Kåreholt I, Thorslund M. (2008) Care utilisation the last years of life in relation to age and time to death; results from a Swedish urban population of the oldest old. European Journal of Ageing (published online).