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Home and Health among Very Old People – Latvian and Swedish Perspectives

Home and Health among Very Old People – Latvian and Swedish Perspectives. Building upon research cooperation between lund university, sweden & riga stradins university, latvia since 2002. The ENABLE-AGE Project Background. Professor susanne iwarsson , lund university, sweden.

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Home and Health among Very Old People – Latvian and Swedish Perspectives

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  1. Home and Health among Very Old People – Latvian and Swedish Perspectives Building upon research cooperation between lunduniversity, sweden & rigastradins university, latvia since 2002

  2. The ENABLE-AGE Project Background Professor susanneiwarsson, lund university, sweden

  3. The ENABLE-AGEProject Enabling Autonomy, Participation, and Well-Being in Old Age: The Home Environment as a Determinant for Healthy Ageing • Latvia • Sweden • United Kingdom • Germany • Hungary

  4. Home Environment (objective, perceived) “Healthy Ageing” (autonomy, well-being, participation) Risks and potentials Main aim To examine, from a European perspective, the home environment as a determinant for ”Healthy Ageing” Recommendations for evidence-based housing solutions across Europe • In very old age • In private households • Living alone

  5. Methodological overview • The ENABLE-AGE Survey Study, N= 1,918 • The ENABLE-AGE In-depth Study, N= 189 • The ENABLE-AGE Update Review, five countries • 1,600 variables (survey database) • Interview audio tapes/transcripts in six languages • Uniquely detailed in data on environmental aspects • One-year follow-up in all countries • Six-year follow-up in Sweden & Germany • Nine-yearfollow-up in Sweden, Germany & Latvia • Ten-yearmortality data – withsomechallenges

  6. In-depth studies, N = 189 Diversity sampling based on survey data  Sample description • Sampling in urban regions, stratified for age and gender • Community dwelling very old people, living alone (T1, N = 1,918; T2, N = 1,356) • Different life expectancy and different onset of “Fourth Age” in Eastern vs. Western European countries  implications for sampling

  7. Thanks to the financers European Commission Swedish Research Council Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research Ribbingska Foundation in Lund, Sweden Swedish Institute – Visbyprogrammet ScanBalt Bridge Award Faculty of Medicine, Lund University

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