2011-11-15 Mats Thorslund in the national media
After recent revelations about serious problems in the quality of long-term care for elderly people in Sweden, much public attention has been focused on this topic. ARC researcher Mats Thorslund has participated in several television and radio programs about long-term care in Sweden. Listen (in Swedish).

Link to SR P1 - Äldrevården - var det bättre förr?

Link to Aktuellt - Monday 14 Nov - Mats beginns talking about 2.30 minutes into the program (SVT Play)

Link to Rapportinslag - Stora skillnader i kostnader för äldrevård (SVT Play)

Link to SR Ekot - The Swedish model for eldercare under threat

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2011-11-03 Miia Kivipelto awarded international prize
Miia Kivipelto is an Aging Research Center professor who aims to improve the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cognitive impairment and dementia. To achieve this aim, she and her research group investigate a wide range of factors that influence risk of cognitive impairment and dementia and work to identify markers to aid in early diagnosis. Kivipelto leads the Finnish Geriatric Intervention Study to Prevent Cognitive Impairment and Disability (FINGER) – one of the first multi-domain intervention studies in the world aimed at preventing or postponing dementia – and is part of a Europe’s first-ever international dementia prevention initiative. For this work in medical innovation, she has been named one of Junior Chamber International’s ten Outstanding Young Persons of the World in 2011.

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2011-10-24 Laura Fratiglioni receives prize
Professor Laura Fratiglioni, Director of the Aging Research Center, has been awarded the Wajlit and Eric Forsgren Award for Excellent Alzheimer's Researchers. Fratiglioni’s studies follow the health of large groups of people over long periods of time, uncovering factors that increase risk of Alzheimer’s – such as midlife overweight and obesity – and factors that decrease risk, like mentally complex work, physical activity and a rich social life. Her work also shows that early signs of the disease, such as reduced memory function, may appear a decade or more before diagnosis.
–The next step is testing these findings. We need large, long-term intervention studies with the goal of delaying the onset of dementia, says Fratiglioni.

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2011-10-03 Miia Kivipelto appointed professor of Clinical Geriatric Epidemiology at Karolinska Institutet.

2011-10-03 Mats Thorslund interviewed in Vision, the magazin published by SKTF, a Swedish labor union. Read more (in Swedish)

2011-09-02 Course in Neuroepidemiology
Link to the program
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