Very old people often need round-the-clock long-term care (LTC) in the last phase of life. As longevity is becoming more common, more people live the last years of life at very old age. The association of this change with use…
Visiting scientist MD, PhD Timo Hinrichs has won the Vontobel prize for ageing research awarded by the University of Zürich for his research paper "Inverse effects of midlife occupational and leisure time physical activity on mobility limitation in old age…
The research conducted at the School of Health Sciences and the Gerontology Research Center in the University of Tampere found that the high-educated have better functioning and less cardiometabolic risk factors than people with low education. Educational differences in inflammatory…
Socioeconomic status is associated with health and functioning also among the oldest old adults. The results came from the Vitality 90+ study, the School of Health Sciences and Gerontology Research center, University of Tampere. The study was based on the…
General or abdominal obesity does not predict the development of mobility disability or activities of daily living disbaility in nonagenarians, i.e., in 90-year-old people. This was found in a study published by the University of Tampere and the Gerontology Research…
Ilkka Pietilä has been invited to the Editorial Board of the Journal of Ageing Studies. The Editor of the journal is Professor Jay Gubrium. There are two earlier members from GEREC in the Editorial Board, Outi Jolanki and Pirjo Nikander.
The International Journal of Ageing and Later Life (IJAL) serves an audience interested in social and cultural aspects of ageing and later life development As such, the Journal welcomes contributions that aim at advancing the theoretical and conceptual debate on…
A fall and subsequent injury decreases a person’s balance confidence and increases his or her fear of falling, was found by postdoctoral researcher Erja Portegijs in a study performed at the Gerontology Research Center in collaboration with the Central Finland…
A new research shows that accounts of functioning differ between long- term care nurses and older people living in long-term care. For the nurses, functional ability was about the basic functions of everyday life, and they often used formal and…
Low weight at birth increased the risk of disability pension among men, reveals a new Finnish study published in the PLoS One. Around 20% of the cohort members born in 1934–44 retired on a disability pension between 1971 and 2011.…
Professor Sarianna Sipilä from GEREC, University of Jyvaskyla is a partner in the PANINI network which received a Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant. There will be a total of 11 available PhD studentships in the PANINI network across European Partners.
Mentally and particularly physically straining work in midlife increased the need for hospital care in older age, reveals a new study published in the Age and Ageing journal. This was confirmed in the Finnish Longitudinal Study on Municipal Employees (FLAME),…